High-Tc superconducting materials for electric power applications

D Larbalestier, A Gurevich, DM Feldmann, A Polyanskii - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
Large-scale superconducting electric devices for power industry depend critically on wires
with high critical current densities at temperatures where cryogenic losses are tolerable. This …

Angular-dependent vortex pinning mechanisms in coated conductors and thin films

L Civale, B Maiorov, A Serquis, JO Willis… - Applied physics …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
We compare the angular-dependent critical current density (J c) in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 films
deposited on MgO templates grown by ion-beam-assisted deposition (IBAD), and on single …

Growth of thick YBa2Cu3O7 layers via a barium fluoride process

V Solovyov, IK Dimitrov, Q Li - Superconductor Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The ex situ process has emerged as a popular technology for growing epitaxial YBa 2 Cu 3
O 7 (YBCO) for the second generation of coated conductors. The process combines low …

Progress towards all-chemical superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-coated conductors

X Obradors, T Puig, A Pomar… - Superconductor …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) has recently emerged as a very competitive technique
for obtaining epitaxial films of high quality with controlled nanostructure. In particular, the all …

Progress in Nanoengineered Microstructures for Tunable High‐Current, High‐Temperature Superconducting Wires

TG Holesinger, L Civale, B Maiorov… - Advanced …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
High critical current densities (Jc) in thick films of the Y1Ba2Cu3O7–δ (YBCO, Tc≈ 92 K)
superconductor directly depend upon the types of nanoscale defects and their densities …

On the through-thickness critical current density of an YBa2Cu3O7− x film containing a high density of insulating, vortex-pinning nanoprecipitates

SI Kim, F Kametani, Z Chen, A Gurevich… - Applied Physics …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Using sequential ion milling the authors have studied the thickness dependence of the
critical current density J c (H) of a single crystal 1 μ m thick Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− x thin film …

Simultaneous inductive determination of grain and intergrain critical current densities of YBa2Cu3O7− x coated conductors

A Palau, T Puig, X Obradors, E Pardo, C Navau… - Applied physics …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
An inductive methodology simultaneously enabling the determination of grain-and intergrain
critical current densities of YBa2Cu3O7x coated conductors is developed. This noninvasive …

Critical Current of Low-Angle Grain Boundaries

JH Durrell, MJ Hogg, F Kahlmann, ZH Barber… - Physical Review Letters, 2003 - APS
Transport critical current measurements have been performed on 5°[001]-tilt thin film YB a 2
C u 3 O 7-δ single grain boundaries with the magnetic field rotated in the plane of the film, ϕ …

[HTML][HTML] Superfluid density dominated junction resistance of bulk polycrystalline YBa2Cu3O7− δ and DyBa2Cu3O7− δ superconductors at low temperature

D Rakshit, S Das, AK Ghosh - Superconductivity, 2023 - Elsevier
Resistances of grain junctions of bulk polycrystalline YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) and DyBa 2
Cu 3 O 7− δ (DyBCO) superconductors have been extracted following (i) Ambegaokar …

1000 A cm− 1 in a 2 µm thick YBa2Cu3O7− x film with BaZrO3 and Y2O3 additions

DM Feldmann, TG Holesinger, B Maiorov… - Superconductor …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We report here on significant improvements to the in-field and self-field critical current
densities (J c) of multilayer and single-layer YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (YBCO) thick films with …