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 …

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 …

Ultra-high flux pinning properties of BaMO3-doped YBa2Cu3O7− x thin films (M= Zr, Sn)

P Mele, K Matsumoto, T Horide… - Superconductor …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We studied the flux pinning properties of BaZrO 3-doped YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x and BaSnO 3-
doped YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x films. We found that BaSnO 3-doped films showed very high …

Materials design for artificial pinning centres in superconductor PLD coated conductors

JPF Feighan, A Kursumovic… - Superconductor …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
To date the strategy for inducing pinning in REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (REBCO where RE= rare-
earth) coated conductors has largely been empirical. Hence, we are not yet at a point where …

Thick YBa2Cu3O7− x+ BaSnO3 films with enhanced critical current density at high magnetic fields

CV Varanasi, J Burke, H Wang, JH Lee… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
The thickness dependence was studied for the critical current density (J c) of YBa 2 Cu 3 O
7− x (YBCO)+ BaSnO 3 (BSO) nanocomposite films. These films showed a significantly …

Systematic study of the BaSnO3 insertion effect on the properties of YBa2Cu3O7− x films prepared by pulsed laser ablation

P Mele, K Matsumoto, A Ichinose… - Superconductor …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x+ BaSnO 3 (YBCO+ BSO) mixed films with increasing BSO
content were prepared on SrTiO 3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition from YBCO+x wt …

Interactive modeling-synthesis-characterization approach towards controllable in situ self-assembly of artificial pinning centers in RE-123 films

J Wu, J Shi - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Raising critical current density J c in high temperature superconductors (HTSs) is an
important strategy towards performance-cost balanced HTS technology for …

BaHfO3 artificial pinning centres in TFA-MOD-derived YBCO and GdBCO thin films

M Erbe, J Hänisch, R Hühne… - Superconductor …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) is a promising way to realize REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x
(REBCO; RE= rare earth (here Y, Gd))-coated conductors with high performance in applied …

Roles of electron mean free path and flux pinning in optimizing the critical current in YBCO superconductors

P Paturi, H Huhtinen - Superconductor Science and …, 2022 - new.iopscience.iop.org
Roles of electron mean free path and flux pinning in optimizing the critical current in YBCO
superconductors - IOPscience Skip to content IOP Science home Accessibility Help Search …

Microstructures and critical current densities of YBCO films containing structure-controlled BaZrO3 nanorods

A Ichinose, K Naoe, T Horide… - Superconductor …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
BaZrO 3 nanorods are known to be effective pinning centers as c-axis-correlated pinning
centers. Furthermore, BaZrO 3 nanorods in REBa 2 Cu 3 O y (RE: rare-earth element) films …