Towards high-field applications: high-performance, low-cost iron-based superconductors

C Dong, Q Xu, Y Ma - National Science Review, 2024 - academic.oup.com
High magnetic fields play a crucial role in advancing basic sciences, fusion energy, and
magnetic resonance imaging systems. However, the widespread use of high-field magnets …

Quadrupling the depairing current density in the iron-based superconductor SmFeAsO1–xHx

M Miura, S Eley, K Iida, K Hanzawa, J Matsumoto… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Iron-based 1111-type superconductors display high critical temperatures and relatively high
critical current densities J c. The typical approach to increasing J c is to introduce defects to …

High tolerance of the superconducting current to large grain boundary angles in potassium-doped BaFe2As2

T Hatano, D Qin, K Iida, H Gao, Z Guo, H Saito… - NPG Asia …, 2024 - nature.com
Superconducting magnets based on high-temperature superconductors (HTSs) have
become critical components in cutting-edge technologies such as advanced medical …

Recent progress on epitaxial growth of Fe-based superconducting thin films

K Iida, J Hänisch, S Hata… - … Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the discovery of Fe-based superconductors, a lot of effort has been devoted to
growing single crystals and epitaxial thin films of them for fundamental studies and applied …

Strengthened proximity effect at grain boundaries to enhance inter-grain supercurrent in Ba1-xKxFe2As2 superconductors

Z Cheng, C Dong, H Yang, Q Zhang, S Awaji, L Gu… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Iron-based superconductors have great potential for high-power applications due to their
prominent high-field properties. One of the central issues in enhancing the critical current …

Modulation of superconducting grain structure to achieve high critical current in Ba0. 6K0. 4Fe2As2 multifilament round wires

C Dong, M Han, W Guo, X Zhang, C Liu… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Iron-based superconducting wires fabricated by the powder-in-tube method are promising
candidates for practical applications due to their prominent high-field performance. The …

[HTML][HTML] Planar defects and strain distributions in polycrystalline BaFe2As2 superconductors synthesized by mechanochemical methods

Z Guo, K Muraoka, H Gao, Y Shimada, T Harada… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, the microstructure of polycrystalline Co-doped BaFe 2 As 2 superconducting
bulks was comprehensively analyzed. The synthesis process involved ball milling and …

On the mechanisms of J c increment and degradation in high-J c Ba122 tapes made by different processing methods

F Kametani, Y Su, C Tarantini, E Hellstrom… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We compared the grain and grain boundary (GB) nanostructures in two Ba122 tapes with
similarly high J c. The Ag-sheathed tape made by hot pressing has larger, more plate-like …

Enhanced flux pinning by refined structural/magnetic domains in nickel-doped BaFe2As2 single crystals

Y Cui, C Dong, C Fu, Z Xu, M Tang, C Wang… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
The critical current density at high magnetic fields of high-temperature superconducting
single crystals and films is mainly determined by the flux pinning force arising from …

K-doped Ba122 epitaxial thin film on MgO substrate by buffer engineering

D Qin, K Iida, Z Guo, C Wang, H Saito… - Superconductor …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Molecular beam epitaxy of K-doped Ba122 (Ba 1− x K x Fe 2 As 2) superconductor was
realized on an MgO substrate. Microstructural observation revealed that the undoped Ba122 …