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 …

Grain boundaries in high- superconductors

H Hilgenkamp, J Mannhart - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2002 - APS
Since the first days of high-T c superconductivity, the materials science and the physics of
grain boundaries in superconducting compounds have developed into fascinating fields of …

Superconducting materials for large scale applications

RM Scanlan, AP Malozemoff… - Proceedings of the …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the 1960s, Nb-Ti (superconducting transition temperature T/sub c/= 9 K) and Nb/sub
3/Sn (T/sub c/= 18 K) have been the materials of choice for virtually all superconducting …

Prospects for MgB2 superconductors for magnet application

K Vinod, RGA Kumar… - … Science and Technology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Superconducting magnets have a variety of industrial, medical and research applications.
This review discusses the prospects for MgB 2 superconductor for practical magnet …

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 …

Weak-link behavior of grain boundaries in superconducting Ba (Fe1− xCox) 2As2 bicrystals

S Lee, J Jiang, JD Weiss, CM Folkman… - Applied Physics …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We show that despite the low anisotropy, strong vortex pinning, and high irreversibility field
H irr close to the upper critical field H c 2 of Ba (Fe 1− x Co x) 2 As 2⁠, the critical current …

Biaxially textured IBAD-MgO templates for YBCO-coated conductors

PN Arendt, SR Foltyn - MRS bulletin, 2004 - cambridge.org
This article reports on the development of second-generation Y1Ba2Cu3O7–(YBCO)-coated
conductors deposited on biaxially textured MgO templates fabricated using ion-beam …

The reversible strain effect on critical current over a wide range of temperatures and magnetic fields for YBCO coated conductors

M Sugano, K Shikimachi, N Hirano… - Superconductor …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The strain effect on critical current (I c (ε)) in Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) coated conductors
was evaluated at temperatures in the range 20–83 K under magnetic fields parallel to the c …

Strongly coupled critical current density values achieved in coated conductors with near-single-crystal texture

SR Foltyn, PN Arendt, QX Jia, H Wang… - Applied Physics …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
One of the most intensely researched subjects in the development of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ
(YBCO)-based coated conductors is the methodology for achieving ever-sharper film texture …

X-ray microdiffraction study of growth modes and crystallographic tilts in oxide films on metal substrates

JD Budai, W Yang, N Tamura, JS Chung, JZ Tischler… - Nature Materials, 2003 - nature.com
The crystallographic texture of thin-film coatings plays an essential role in determining such
diverse materials properties as wear resistance, recording density in magnetic media and …