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 …

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

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 …

The anomalous magnetization characteristic, intra-grain granularity and the magnitude of
the flux pinning in single crystals of YBa2Cu307–δ are shown to be intimately linked. As the …

We studied the flux pinning properties of BaZrO 3-doped YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x and BaSnO 3-
doped YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x films. We found that BaSnO 3-doped films showed very high …

Ultra-severe plastic deformation (ultra-SPD) is defined as the SPD processes in which the
shear strains over 1,000 are introduced to a work piece. Despite significant activities on …

Superconducting magnets have a variety of industrial, medical and research applications.
This review discusses the prospects for MgB 2 superconductor for practical magnet …

Applications of REBCO coated conductors are now being developed for a very wide range
of temperatures and magnetic fields and it is not yet clear whether vortex pinning strategies …

This review is dedicated to summarizing the recent research on vortex dynamics and
pinning effects in superconducting films with artificial magnetic structures. The fabrication of …

Complexes of cell-surface receptors and their ligands are commonly internalized by
endocytosis and enter a prelysosomal endosomal pathway for further processing …