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

This review article focuses on the sol-gel preparation of high temperature superconducting
oxides wherein different classes of gel technologies were utilized. These involve: 1) the sol …

The use of chemical solution deposition for the fabrication of perovskite thin films is
reviewed. A variety of approaches including sol− gel, chelate, and metalloorganic …

Epitaxial thin films of inorganic single crystals can be grown on single-crystal substrates with
a variety of different solution chemistries. This review emphasizes chemical solution …

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 …

The operation of a small area pn junction diode above the breakdown voltage is analyzed. A
new formulation in terms of ionization probability is used to derive the rate of turn-on of …

Large-area, uniform, high critical current density (J c) YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (YBCO)
superconductor films are now routinely obtained by metalorganic deposition using …

The growth and properties of electronic oxide thin films are reviewed. In particular, the
synthesis and properties of superconducting, insulating, conducting, magnetic, and …

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 …

High critical current densities (Jc) in thick films of the Y1Ba2Cu3O7–δ (YBCO, Tc≈ 92 K)
superconductor directly depend upon the types of nanoscale defects and their densities …