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 …

Metal oxide nanocomposites: a perspective from strain, defect, and interface

A Chen, Q Su, H Han, E Enriquez, Q Jia - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films with ordered two phases, grown epitaxially on
substrates, have attracted tremendous interest in the past decade. These unique …

High mobility in a stable transparent perovskite oxide

HJ Kim, U Kim, TH Kim, HS Mun, BG Jeon… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We discovered that La-doped BaSnO 3 with the perovskite structure has an
unprecedentedly high mobility at room temperature while retaining its optical transparency …

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 …

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 …

Growth, nanostructure and vortex pinning in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 thin films based on trifluoroacetate solutions

X Obradors, T Puig, S Ricart, M Coll… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) is a very competitive technique to obtain epitaxial films
and multilayers of high quality with controlled nanostructures. Based on the strong …

[HTML][HTML] Strongly enhanced vortex pinning from 4 to 77 K in magnetic fields up to 31 T in 15 mol.% Zr-added (Gd, Y)-Ba-Cu-O superconducting tapes

A Xu, L Delgado, N Khatri, Y Liu, V Selvamanickam… - Apl Materials, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Applications of REBCO coated conductors are now being developed for a very wide range
of temperatures and magnetic fields and it is not yet clear whether vortex pinning strategies …

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 …

Investigation of the impact of nano-sized wires and particles TiO2 on Y-123 superconductor performance

Y Slimani, E Hannachi, A Ekicibil… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the current investigation, we report the impact of TiO 2 nanowires (NW) and nanoparticles
(NP) addition on flux pinning and superconducting characteristics of YB 2 Cu 3 O 7-d (Y-123 …