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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in second-generation high-temperature superconducting tapes and their applications in high-field magnets

K Wang, H Dong, D Huang, H Shang, B **e, Q Zou… - Soft Science, 2022 - oaepublish.com
Second-generation high-temperature superconducting (2G-HTS) tapes based on REBa 2
Cu 3 O 7-x (REBCO, RE: rare earth) materials enable the energy-efficient and high-power …

Pinning Potential of the Self-Assembled Artificial Pinning Centers in Nanostructured YBa2Cu3O7−x Superconducting Films

I Ivan, AM Ionescu, DN Crisan, A Andrei, A Galluzzi… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
For high-field power applications of high-temperature superconductors, it became obvious in
recent years that nano-engineered artificial pinning centers are needed for increasing the …

Nano‐engineered pinning centres in YBCO superconducting films

A Crisan, VS Dang, P Mikheenko - Physica C: Superconductivity and its …, 2017 - Elsevier
For practical applications of superconducting materials in applied magnetic fields, artificial
pinning centres in addition to natural ones are required to oppose the Lorentz force. These …

The materials science of modern technical superconducting materials

AS Tsapleva, IM Abdyukhanov, VI Pantsyrnyi… - Physics of Metals and …, 2022 - Springer
In this review, we consider the current state of development of both low-temperature
superconductors based on Nb3Sn and high-temperature superconductors. The effect of the …

Nanostructured superconductors with efficient vortex pinning

X Obradors, T Puig, A Palau… - Comprehensive …, 2011 - shibaura.elsevierpure.com
The new routes toward preparation of nanostructured YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 superconducting thin
films and coated conductors, based mainly on pulsed laser and chemical solution deposition …

Investigation of the bulk pinning force in YBCO superconducting films with nano-engineered pinning centres

A Crisan, VS Dang, G Yearwood, P Mikheenko… - … and its Applications, 2014 - Elsevier
For practical applications of superconducting materials in applied magnetic fields, artificial
pinning centres in addition to natural ones are required to oppose the Lorentz force. These …

Integrated nanotechnology of pinning centers in YBa2Cu3Ox films

P Mikheenko, VS Dang, YY Tse… - Superconductor …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
A controlled pinning change from the ab-plane dominant to the c-axis dominant has been
achieved in a novel method of nanostructured YBa 2 Cu 3 O x (YBCO) growth. The method …

Self-assembled artificial pinning centres in thick YBCO superconducting films

P Mikheenko, JS Abell, A Sarkar… - Journal of Physics …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Strong, artificial pinning centres are required in superconducting films of large thickness for
power applications in high magnetic fields. One of the methods for the introduction of …

Improved critical current densities in thick YBa2Cu3O7− δ multilayer films interspaced with non-superconducting YBa2Cu3Ox nanodots

A Sarkar, VS Dang, P Mikheenko, MMA Kechik… - Thin Solid Films, 2010 - Elsevier
We have fabricated and studied quasi-multilayered thick YBa2Cu3O7− δ (YBCO) films
composed of several YBCO layers interspaced with quasi-layers of non-superconducting …