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 …

Review of a chemical approach to YBa2Cu3O7− x-coated superconductors—metalorganic deposition using trifluoroacetates

T Araki, I Hirabayashi - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
Large-area, uniform, high critical current density (J c) YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (YBCO)
superconductor films are now routinely obtained by metalorganic deposition using …

Growth of thick YBa2Cu3O7 layers via a barium fluoride process

V Solovyov, IK Dimitrov, Q Li - Superconductor Science and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The ex situ process has emerged as a popular technology for growing epitaxial YBa 2 Cu 3
O 7 (YBCO) for the second generation of coated conductors. The process combines low …

Precursor Evolution and Nucleation Mechanism of YBa2Cu3Ox Films by TFA Metal−Organic Decomposition

J Gazquez, F Sandiumenge, M Coll, A Pomar… - Chemistry of …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We describe the conversion of yttrium, barium, and copper trifluoracetate-derived solid
precursors to epitaxial YBa2Cu3O x superconducting ceramics on (001)-oriented LaAlO3 …

Reactions of oxyfluoride precursors for the preparation of barium yttrium cuprate films

M Yoshizumi, I Seleznev, MJ Cima - Physica C: Superconductivity, 2004 - Elsevier
Precursor films prepared by metal organic deposition are shown to be much richer in
fluorine than previously suspected. The ratio of fluorine to barium is 2.7 when the film is …

Fabrication and growth mechanism of YBCO coated conductors by TFA-MOD process

T Honjo, Y Nakamura, R Teranishi, Y Tokunaga… - Physica C …, 2003 - Elsevier
In the development for the coated conductors, the trifluoroacetates-metal organic deposition
(TFA-MOD) process using the multi-coating method was applied to form thicker YBa2Cu3Oy …

Growth rate control and solid–gas modeling of TFA-YBa2Cu3O7 thin film processing

H Chen, K Zalamova, A Pomar… - Superconductor …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The trifluoroacetate metal-organic decomposition route to YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 film growth was
investigated in order to bring new insights in the growth mechanism and its dependence on …

High critical currents by isotropic magnetic-flux-pinning centres in a 3 µm-thick YBa2Cu3O7 superconducting coated conductor

VF Solovyov, HJ Wiesmann, L Wu, Q Li… - Superconductor …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The critical current densities J c− w (H) per unit width of the tape were measured at 75 K in
applied magnetic fields H on a 3 µm-thick YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 film on a metallic substrate …

Growth mechanism of YBCO films in metal organic deposition method using trifluoroacetates

T Honjo, Y Nakamura, R Teranishi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report the theoretical analysis of YBCO growth during post annealing in the TFA-MOD
process considering both the diffusion in the boundary layer and the growth kinetics at the …

Purified Coating Solution and Growth Scheme of the YBa2Cu3O7−x Superconductors in Metal Organic Deposition Using Trifluoroacetates

T Araki - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Metal organic deposition using trifluoroacetate (TFA-MOD) is one of the most promising
approaches to YBa2Cu3O7− x superconductors. In this process, CuO nanocrystallites in …