Materials science challenges for high-temperature superconducting wire

SR Foltyn, L Civale, JL MacManus-Driscoll, QX Jia… - Nature materials, 2007‏ - nature.com
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 …

Artificial pinning center technology to enhance vortex pinning in YBCO coatedconductors

K Matsumoto, P Mele - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2009‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Crystalline defects on the nano-scale, which are called artificial pinning centers (APCs),
were successfully introduced into high-temperature superconductors (HTS) by …

Superconductive REBCO Thin Films and Their Nanocomposites: The Role of Rare-Earth Oxides in Promoting Sustainable Energy

AK Jha, K Matsumoto - Frontiers in Physics, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
The lossless transmission of direct electrical currents in superconductors is very often
regarded as an “energy superhighway” with greatly enhanced efficiency. With the discovery …

Flux pinning enhancement in YBa2Cu3O7− x films with BaSnO3 nanoparticles

CV Varanasi, PN Barnes, J Burke… - Superconductor …, 2006‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoparticles of BaSnO 3 were incorporated into YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (YBCO) films on LaAlO
3 substrates for magnetic flux pinning enhancements. More than an order of magnitude …

Interactive modeling-synthesis-characterization approach towards controllable in situ self-assembly of artificial pinning centers in RE-123 films

J Wu, J Shi - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Raising critical current density J c in high temperature superconductors (HTSs) is an
important strategy towards performance-cost balanced HTS technology for …

Systematic study of the BaSnO3 insertion effect on the properties ofYBa2Cu3O7− x films prepared by pulsed laser ablation

P Mele, K Matsumoto, A Ichinose… - Superconductor …, 2008‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x+ BaSnO 3 (YBCO+ BSO) mixed films with increasing BSO
content were prepared on SrTiO 3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition from YBCO+x wt …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in second-generation high-temperature superconducting tapes and their applications in high-field magnets

K Wang, H Dong, D Huang, H Shang, B **e, Q Zou… - Soft Science, 2022‏ - oaepublish.com
Second-generation high-temperature superconducting (2G-HTS) tapes based on REBa 2
Cu 3 O 7-x (REBCO, RE: rare earth) materials enable the energy-efficient and high-power …

BaHfO3 artificial pinning centres in TFA-MOD-derived YBCO and GdBCO thin films

M Erbe, J Hänisch, R Hühne… - Superconductor …, 2015‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) is a promising way to realize REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x
(REBCO; RE= rare earth (here Y, Gd))-coated conductors with high performance in applied …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in the study of vortex pinning centers in high-temperature superconducting films

J Zhang, H Wu, G Zhao, L Han, J Zhang - Nanomaterials, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductors (HTSs), significant progress in the
fabrication of HTS films has been achieved. In this review, we intend to provide an overview …

Thickness dependence of magnetic relaxation and - characteristics in superconducting (Gd-Y)-Ba-Cu-O films with strong vortex pinning

Ö Polat, JW Sinclair, YL Zuev, JR Thompson… - Physical Review B …, 2011‏ - APS
The dependence of the critical current density J c on temperature, magnetic field, and film
thickness has been investigated in (Gd-Y)-Ba-Cu-O materials of 0.7, 1.4, and 2.8 μm …