Growth, nanostructure and vortex pinning in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 thin films based on trifluoroacetate solutions

X Obradors, T Puig, S Ricart, M Coll… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Nanoscale strain-induced pair suppression as a vortex-pinning mechanism in high-temperature superconductors

A Llordes, A Palau, J Gázquez, M Coll, R Vlad… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
Boosting large-scale superconductor applications require nanostructured conductors with
artificial pinning centres immobilizing quantized vortices at high temperature and magnetic …

Strong isotropic flux pinning in solution-derived YBa2Cu3O7−x nanocomposite superconductor films

J Gutiérrez, A Llordes, J Gazquez, M Gibert, N Roma… - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
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 …

Progress towards all-chemical superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-coated conductors

X Obradors, T Puig, A Pomar… - Superconductor …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) has recently emerged as a very competitive technique
for obtaining epitaxial films of high quality with controlled nanostructure. In particular, the all …

Progress in Nanoengineered Microstructures for Tunable High‐Current, High‐Temperature Superconducting Wires

TG Holesinger, L Civale, B Maiorov… - Advanced …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Vortex pinning in chemical solution nanostructured YBCO films

T Puig, J Gutiérrez, A Pomar, A Llordés… - Superconductor …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Evolution of Metal-Trifluoroacetate Precursors in the Thermal Decomposition toward High-Performance YBa2Cu3O7 Superconducting Films

A Llordes, K Zalamova, S Ricart, A Palau… - Chemistry of …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A thorough analytical study on the thermal decomposition evolution of the metal-
trifluoroacetate precursor toward high-performance YBa2Cu3O7 superconducting films is …

Competitive nucleation and growth control of a-and c-axis YBCO films by metal organic deposition

X Zhou, J Chen, Z Liu, C Cai - Ceramics International, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper utilizes the TFA-MOD (Trifluoroacetate Metal-Organic Decomposition) method to
prepare YB 2 C 3 O 7-δ (YBCO) superconducting films on a LaMnO 3 metal substrate. Using …

Chemical solution deposition of YBa2Cu3O7− x coated conductors

K Knoth, S Engel, C Apetrii, M Falter… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2006 - Elsevier
At present, the development of superconducting YBa2Cu3O7− x coated conductors attracts
much attention due to their enormous application potential in electric power systems …

Chemical solution deposition using ink-jet printing for YBCO coated conductors

I Van Driessche, J Feys, SC Hopkins… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports the successful application of ink-jet printing to the deposition of both
continuous coatings and multi-filamentary structures of YBCO. Stable inks have been …