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Strongly enhanced current densities in superconducting coated conductors of YBa2Cu3O7–x + BaZrO3

J. MacManus‐Driscoll,J. MacManus‐Driscoll,S. Foltyn,Q. Jia,Haiyan Wang,A. Serquis,L. Civale,B. Maiorov,M. Hawley,M. Maley,D. Peterson

Published 2004 in Nature Materials

ABSTRACT

There are numerous potential applications for superconducting tapes based on YBa2Cu3O7–x (YBCO) films coated onto metallic substrates1. A long-established goal of more than 15 years has been to understand the magnetic-flux pinning mechanisms that allow films to maintain high current densities out to high magnetic fields2. In fact, films carry one to two orders of magnitude higher current densities than any other form of the material3. For this reason, the idea of further improving pinning has received little attention. Now that commercialization of YBCO-tape conductors is much closer, an important goal for both better performance and lower fabrication costs is to achieve enhanced pinning in a practical way. In this work, we demonstrate a simple and industrially scaleable route that yields a 1.5–5-fold improvement in the in-magnetic-field current densities of conductors that are already of high quality.

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