superconducting critical temperatures were prepared by sequential reactive dc sputtering.
The superconducting critical current density at 4.5 K reaches values as high as 1.1× 107
A/cm2 for a sample with n Y= 2 and n Pr= 1 and 3.8× 106 A/cm2 for n Y= 1 and n Pr= 3,
indicating that the coupling of the CuO2 layers is not necessary for high‐jc values. The
angular dependence jc (φ) is determined by the component of the magnetic field …