Statics and dynamics of skyrmions interacting with disorder and nanostructures

C Reichhardt, CJO Reichhardt, MV Milošević - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable nanoscale particlelike objects that were
discovered in 2009. Since that time, intense research interest in the field has led to the …

High-Tc superconducting materials for electric power applications

D Larbalestier, A Gurevich, DM Feldmann, A Polyanskii - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Artificial pinning center technology to enhance vortex pinning in YBCO coated conductors

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 …

Origin of high critical currents in YBa2Cu3O7−δ superconducting thin films

B Dam, JM Huijbregtse, FC Klaassen… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
Thin films of the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7− δ exhibit both a large
critical current (the superconducting current density generally lies between 1011 and 1012 A …

Fabrication of BaHfO3 doped Gd1Ba2Cu3O7− δ coated conductors with the high Ic of 85 A/cm-w under 3 T at liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K)

H Tobita, K Notoh, K Higashikawa… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The introduction of effective artificial pinning centers into pulsed laser deposition derived Gd
1 Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ coated conductors has been studied with a view to improving the I c–B–θ …

Flux pinning by Al-based nano particles embedded in polycrystalline (Bi, Pb)-2223 superconductors

A Ghattas, M Annabi, M Zouaoui, FB Azzouz… - … and its applications, 2008 - Elsevier
The effect of nano-size Al2O3 (40nm) addition on the microstructure and pinning properties
of polycrystalline (Bi, Pb)-2223 was analyzed. The Al2O3 content in samples varied from 0.0 …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid doubling of the critical current of YBa2Cu3O7− δ coated conductors for viable high-speed industrial processing

M Leroux, KJ Kihlstrom, S Holleis, MW Rupich… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that 3.5-MeV oxygen irradiation can markedly enhance the in-field critical
current of commercial second generation superconducting tapes with an exposure time of …

Vortex pinning by natural linear defects in thin films of

FC Klaassen, G Doornbos, JM Huijbregtse… - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
The behavior of the superconducting current density js (B, T) and the dynamical relaxation
rate Q (B, T) of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ thin films exhibits a number of features typical for strong …

A precursor mechanism triggering the second magnetization peak phenomenon in superconducting materials

M Polichetti, A Galluzzi, K Buchkov, V Tomov… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The correlation in type-II superconductors between the creep rate S and the Second
Magnetization Peak (SMP) phenomenon which produces an increase in Jc, as a function of …