Growth, nanostructure and vortex pinning in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 thin films based on trifluoroacetate solutions

X Obradors, T Puig, S Ricart, M Coll… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) is a very competitive technique to obtain epitaxial films
and multilayers of high quality with controlled nanostructures. Based on the strong …

Impact of high growth rates on the microstructure and vortex pinning of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors

T Puig, J Gutierrez, X Obradors - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract High-temperature superconducting REBa2Cu3O7 (RE= rare earth or yttrium)
coated conductors have emerged as a new class of materials with exceptional physical …

Strong isotropic flux pinning in solution-derived YBa2Cu3O7−x nanocomposite superconductor films

J Gutiérrez, A Llordes, J Gazquez, M Gibert, N Roma… - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Power applications of superconductors will be tremendously boosted if an effective method
for magnetic flux immobilization is discovered. Here, we report the most efficient vortex …

The behavior of grain boundaries in the Fe-based superconductors

JH Durrell, CB Eom, A Gurevich… - Reports on Progress …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Fe-based superconductors (FBSs) are an important new class of
superconducting materials. As with any new superconductor with a high transition …

Vortex pinning in chemical solution nanostructured YBCO films

T Puig, J Gutiérrez, A Pomar, A Llordés… - Superconductor …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
A methodology of general validity to study vortex pinning in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) is
described. It is based on measuring the angular-dependent critical current density in a large …

Optimizing vortex pinning in YBa2Cu3O7-x superconducting films up to high magnetic fields

F Vallès, A Palau, D Abraimov, J Jaroszynski… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The magnetic flux pinning capabilities of YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) coated conductors vary
strongly across different regions of the magnetic field–temperature phase diagram and with …

High critical current density and enhanced pinning in superconducting films of YBa2Cu3O7− δ nanocomposites with embedded BaZrO3, BaHfO3, BaTiO3, and SrZrO3 …

J Díez-Sierra, P López-Domínguez… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) of YBa2Cu3O7− δ (YBCO) nanocomposites from
colloidal precursor solutions containing double metal oxide preformed nanocrystals is a …

Epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7− x nanocomposite films and coated conductors from BaMO3 (M= Zr, Hf) colloidal solutions

X Obradors, T Puig, Z Li, C Pop, B Mundet… - Superconductor …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconducting nanocomposites are the best material choice to address the performance
required in power applications and magnets working under high magnetic fields. However, it …

Evidence of pinning crossover and the role of twin boundaries in the peak effect in FeSeTe iron based superconductor

A Galluzzi, K Buchkov, V Tomov… - Superconductor …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The correlation between the appearance of a peak effect in the critical current of a
superconducting material and the presence of twin boundaries, involved in a crossover …

Nematically templated vortex lattices in superconducting FeSe

SY Song, C Hua, L Bell, W Ko, H Fangohr, J Yan… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
New pathways to controlling the morphology of superconducting vortex lattices─ and their
subsequent dynamics─ are required to guide and scale vortex world-lines into a computing …