Abstract High-temperature superconducting REBa2Cu3O7 (RE= rare earth or yttrium)
coated conductors have emerged as a new class of materials with exceptional physical …

Crystalline defects on the nano-scale, which are called artificial pinning centers (APCs),
were successfully introduced into high-temperature superconductors (HTS) by …

Boosting large-scale superconductor applications require nanostructured conductors with
artificial pinning centres immobilizing quantized vortices at high temperature and magnetic …

Power applications of superconductors will be tremendously boosted if an effective method
for magnetic flux immobilization is discovered. Here, we report the most efficient vortex …

Scaling relations describing the electromagnetic behaviour of coated conductors (CCs)
greatly simplify the design of REBCO-based devices. The performance of REBCO CCs is …

The development and application of second generation high temperature superconducting
(2G-HTS) tapes have attracted much attention in China recently. Progress in upscaling high …

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 …

In this work, we review recent progress achieved in the use of chemical solution deposition
(CSD) based on fluorinated metalorganic precursors to grow superconducting REBa 2 Cu 3 …

A methodology of general validity to study vortex pinning in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) is
described. It is based on measuring the angular-dependent critical current density in a large …

A large, magnetic-field-dependent, reversible reduction in critical current density with axial
strain in Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ coated conductors at 75.9 K has been measured. This effect …