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 …

Importance of low-angle grain boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7− δ coated conductors

JH Durrell, NA Rutter - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the past ten years the perception of grain boundaries in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ conductors
has changed greatly. They are now not a problem to be eliminated, but an inevitable and …

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 …

Progress in high temperature superconductor coated conductors and their applications

AP Malozemoff, S Fleshler, M Rupich… - Superconductor …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Second generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wires are based on a
coated conductor technology. They follow on from a first generation (1G) HTS wire …

Large intrinsic effect of axial strain on the critical current of high-temperature superconductors for electric power applications

DC van der Laan, JW Ekin - Applied physics letters, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
A remarkably large reversible reduction in the critical current of “second generation” high-
temperature superconductors for electric power applications has been measured with a new …

Angular dependence of Jc for YBCO coated conductors at low temperature and very high magnetic fields

A Xu, JJ Jaroszynski, F Kametani, Z Chen… - Superconductor …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present very high field angle dependent critical current density (J c) data for three
recently obtained YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (YBCO) coated conductors used in the construction of …

Fe (Se, Te) coated conductors deposited on simple rolling-assisted biaxially textured substrate templates

G Sylva, A Augieri, A Mancini, A Rufoloni… - Superconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we study the feasibility of Fe (Se, Te) coated conductors on a simple rolling-
assisted biaxially textured substrate (RABiTS) template. Starting from commercially available …

Insight into the Interfacial Nucleation and Competitive Growth of YBa2Cu3O7−δ Films as High-Performance Coated Conductors by a Fluorine-Free Metal–Organic …

J Chu, Y Zhao, MZ Khan, X Tang, W Wu… - Crystal Growth & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The fluorine-free metal–organic decomposition (FF-MOD) route is one of the table-top
methods for the growth of high-quality superconducting YBa2Cu3O7− δ (YBCO) films due to …

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 …

Flux pinning in YBa2Cu3O7− δ thin film samples linked to stacking fault density

J Wang, JH Kwon, J Yoon, H Wang, TJ Haugan… - Applied Physics …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we report a strong correlation between the stacking fault (SF) density and the
critical current density of Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) thin films in applied field (J c in-field)⁠ …