Growth, nanostructure and vortex pinning in superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 thin films based on trifluoroacetate solutions

X Obradors, T Puig, S Ricart, M Coll… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Chemical solution deposition (CSD) is a very competitive technique to obtain epitaxial films
and multilayers of high quality with controlled nanostructures. Based on the strong …

Synergetic combination of different types of defect to optimize pinning landscape using BaZrO3-doped YBa2Cu3O7

B Maiorov, SA Baily, H Zhou, O Ugurlu, JA Kennison… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Retaining a dissipation-free state while carrying large electrical currents is a challenge that
needs to be solved to enable commercial applications of high-temperature …

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 …

Vortex pinning and creep in high-temperature superconductors with columnar defects

L Civale - Superconductor Science and Technology, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
Columnar defects introduced by irradiation with very energetic heavy ions are the most
effective pinning centres for flux lines in high-temperature superconductors. This correlated …

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 …

Enhancement of critical current density in Co-doped with columnar defects introduced by heavy-ion irradiation

Y Nakajima, Y Tsuchiya, T Taen, T Tamegai… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We report the realization of columnar defects in Co-doped BaFe 2 As 2 single crystal by
heavy-ion irradiation. The columnar defects are confirmed by transmission electron …

Vortex pinning in chemical solution nanostructured YBCO films

T Puig, J Gutiérrez, A Pomar, A Llordés… - Superconductor …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
A methodology of general validity to study vortex pinning in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) is
described. It is based on measuring the angular-dependent critical current density in a large …

Effects of particle irradiations on vortex states in iron-based superconductors

T Tamegai, T Taen, H Yagyuda… - Superconductor …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Various kinds of energetic particles are irradiated into iron-based superconductors, and their
effects on the critical current density (J c) and vortex dynamics have been systematically …

Critical current density, vortex dynamics, and phase diagram of single-crystal FeSe

Y Sun, S Pyon, T Tamegai, R Kobayashi, T Watashige… - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We present a comprehensive study of the vortex pinning and dynamics in a high-quality
FeSe single crystal which is free from doping-introduced inhomogeneities and charged …

Toward superconducting critical current by design

IA Sadovskyy, Y Jia, M Leroux, J Kwon, H Hu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
We present the new paradigm of critical current by design. Analogous to materials by
design, it aims at predicting the optimal defect landscape in a superconductor for targeted …