Large-scale superconducting electric devices for power industry depend critically on wires
with high critical current densities at temperatures where cryogenic losses are tolerable. This …

Since the first days of high-T c superconductivity, the materials science and the physics of
grain boundaries in superconducting compounds have developed into fascinating fields of …

Twenty years ago in a series of amazing discoveries it was found that a large family of
ceramic cuprate materials exhibited superconductivity at temperatures above, and in some …

A method to obtain long lengths of flexible, biaxially oriented substrates with smooth,
chemically compatible surfaces for epitaxial growth of high‐temperature superconductors is …

In-plane-aligned, c axis-oriented YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) films with superconducting critical
current densities J c as high as 700,000 amperes per square centimeter at 77 kelvin have …

This chapter describes in detail the fundamental aspects of laser ablation processes,
including laser-induced plasma ignition and expansion leading to plasma emission and …

Since the 1960s, Nb-Ti (superconducting transition temperature T/sub c/= 9 K) and Nb/sub
3/Sn (T/sub c/= 18 K) have been the materials of choice for virtually all superconducting …

We report the growth of in-plane textured (100) MgO on amorphous Si 3 N 4 substrates by
ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD). The textured MgO can be used as a structural template …

We report superconducting and mechanical properties of YBa2Cu3O7− δ (YBCO) thick films
on Ni‐based alloys with a textured yttria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ) buffer layer. The YBCO …

With the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, it seemed that the vision of
superconducting power cables operating at the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (77 K) was …