Vortices in high-performance high-temperature superconductors

WK Kwok, U Welp, A Glatz, AE Koshelev… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The behavior of vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) controls the entire
electromagnetic response of the material, including its current carrying capacity. Here, we …

Materials science challenges for high-temperature superconducting wire

SR Foltyn, L Civale, JL MacManus-Driscoll, QX Jia… - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
Twenty years ago in a series of amazing discoveries it was found that a large family of
ceramic cuprate materials exhibited superconductivity at temperatures above, and in some …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Significantly enhanced critical current density and pinning force in nanostructured,(RE) BCO-based, coated conductor

A Goyal, R Kumar, H Yuan, N Hamada… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High-temperature superconducting wires have many large-scale, niche applications such as
commercial nuclear fusion as well as numerous other large-scale applications in the electric …

Imaging of super-fast dynamics and flow instabilities of superconducting vortices

L Embon, Y Anahory, ŽL Jelić, EO Lachman… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Quantized magnetic vortices driven by electric current determine key electromagnetic
properties of superconductors. While the dynamic behavior of slow vortices has been …

Synergetic combination of different types of defect to optimize pinning landscape using BaZrO3-doped YBa2Cu3O7

B Maiorov, SA Baily, H Zhou, O Ugurlu, JA Kennison… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Retaining a dissipation-free state while carrying large electrical currents is a challenge that
needs to be solved to enable commercial applications of high-temperature …

Nanoscale strain-induced pair suppression as a vortex-pinning mechanism in high-temperature superconductors

A Llordes, A Palau, J Gázquez, M Coll, R Vlad… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
Boosting large-scale superconductor applications require nanostructured conductors with
artificial pinning centres immobilizing quantized vortices at high temperature and magnetic …

The processing and properties of bulk (RE) BCO high temperature superconductors: current status and future perspectives

DK Namburi, Y Shi, DA Cardwell - Superconductor Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Bulk (RE)-Ba-Cu-O [(RE) BCO] cuprate HTS have been developed steadily towards
a wide range of sustainable engineering and technological applications since their …

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 …

Artificial pinning center technology to enhance vortex pinning in YBCO coated conductors

K Matsumoto, P Mele - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Crystalline defects on the nano-scale, which are called artificial pinning centers (APCs),
were successfully introduced into high-temperature superconductors (HTS) by …

Self‐assembled heteroepitaxial oxide nanocomposite thin film structures: designing interface‐induced functionality in electronic materials

JL MacManus‐Driscoll - Advanced Functional Materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving self‐assembling/self‐organizing systems is the holy grail of nanotechnology.
Spontaneous organization is not unique to the physical sciences since nature has been …