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 …

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 …

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 …

The effect of nanometer Al2O3 particle addition on the crystal structure and superconducting
properties of Y Ba2Cu3Oy (YBCO) ceramics was systematically studied. Samples were …

YBCO films were prepared by pulsed laser deposition from nanocrystalline targets doped
with different concentrations of BaZrO 3 ranging from c= 0.9 to 9.0 wt%. The critical …

Nanodot arrays of Y 2 O 3 were dispersed in thin films of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) by
growing alternating layers of these two species using a pulsed laser deposition method. As …

Nanorods are a very effective pinning center in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 films, and the vortex pinning
mechanism should be understood to further improve the critical current density (J c) in the …

Y Ba 2 Cu 3 O 7− x (YBCO) films with nanoparticles of Ba Sn O 3 (BSO) were processed
using pulsed laser ablation of a special target made with dual phase sectors of YBCO and …

The addition of dysprosium oxide nanoparticles is shown to improve the critical current in
perpendicular magnetic fields for second-generation (2G) wire formed by metal–organic …

The multilayer structures of alternating superconducting YBCO films doped with different
BZO nanocolumn densities were utilized. We show that using 50 nm thick layers increases J …