Vortices in high-performance high-temperature superconductors

WK Kwok, U Welp, A Glatz, AE Koshelev… - Reports on Progress …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The behavior of vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) controls the entire
electromagnetic response of the material, including its current carrying capacity. Here, we …

Impact of high growth rates on the microstructure and vortex pinning of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors

T Puig, J Gutierrez, X Obradors - Nature Reviews Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract High-temperature superconducting REBa2Cu3O7 (RE= rare earth or yttrium)
coated conductors have emerged as a new class of materials with exceptional physical …

Coated conductors for power applications: materials challenges

X Obradors, T Puig - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This manuscript reports on the recent progress and the remaining materials challenges in
the development of coated conductors (CCs) for power applications and magnets, with a …

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 …

Strain engineering: A pathway for tunable functionalities of perovskite metal oxide films

S Dhole, A Chen, W Nie, B Park, Q Jia - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Perovskite offers a framework that boasts various functionalities and physical properties of
interest such as ferroelectricity, magnetic orderings, multiferroicity, superconductivity …

Transport properties of ultrathin nanowires: A route to single-photon detection

R Arpaia, D Golubev, R Baghdadi, R Ciancio, G Dražić… - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
We report on the growth and characterization of ultrathin YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) films on
MgO (110) substrates, which exhibit superconducting properties at thicknesses down to 3 …

Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7–δ Nanocomposites Using Preformed ZrO2 Nanocrystals: Growth Mechanisms and Vortex Pinning Properties

K De Keukeleere, P Cayado, A Meledin… - Advanced Electronic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Although high temperature superconductors are promising for power applications, the
production of low‐cost coated conductors with high current densities—at high magnetic …

Disentangling vortex pinning landscape in chemical solution deposited superconducting YBa2Cu3O7− x films and nanocomposites

A Palau, F Vallès, V Rouco, M Coll, Z Li… - Superconductor …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In-field angular pinning performances at different temperatures have been analysed on
chemical solution deposited (CSD) YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (YBCO) pristine films and …

Optimizing vortex pinning in YBa2Cu3O7-x superconducting films up to high magnetic fields

F Vallès, A Palau, D Abraimov, J Jaroszynski… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The magnetic flux pinning capabilities of YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) coated conductors vary
strongly across different regions of the magnetic field–temperature phase diagram and with …

High critical current density and enhanced pinning in superconducting films of YBa2Cu3O7− δ nanocomposites with embedded BaZrO3, BaHfO3, BaTiO3, and SrZrO3 …

J Díez-Sierra, P López-Domínguez… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) of YBa2Cu3O7− δ (YBCO) nanocomposites from
colloidal precursor solutions containing double metal oxide preformed nanocrystals is a …