Development of a thick GdBCO and ZrO2-doped GdBCO film with a high critical current on a PLD-CeO2/IBAD-GZO metal substrate

2007 ◽  
Vol 463-465 ◽  
pp. 630-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kinoshita ◽  
K. Takahashi ◽  
H. Kobayashi ◽  
Y. Yamada ◽  
A. Ibi ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
R.A. Ploc

The manner in which ZrO2 forms on zirconium at 300°C in air has been discussed in the first reference. In short, monoclinic zirconia nucleates and grows with a preferred orientation relative to the metal substrate. The mode of growth is not well understood since an epitaxial relationship which gives minimum misfit between the zirconium ions in the metal/oxide combination is not realized. The reason may be associated with a thin cubic or tetragonal layer of ZrO2 between the inner oxygen saturated metal and the outer monoclinic zirconia.


Author(s):  
P. Lu ◽  
W. Huang ◽  
C.S. Chern ◽  
Y.Q. Li ◽  
J. Zhao ◽  
...  

The YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films formed by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD) have been reported to have excellent superconducting properties including a sharp zero resistance transition temperature (Tc) of 89 K and a high critical current density of 2.3x106 A/cm2 or higher. The origin of the high critical current in the thin film compared to bulk materials is attributed to its structural properties such as orientation, grain boundaries and defects on the scale of the coherent length. In this report, we present microstructural aspects of the thin films deposited on the (100) LaAlO3 substrate, which process the highest critical current density.Details of the thin film growth process have been reported elsewhere. The thin films were examined in both planar and cross-section view by electron microscopy. TEM sample preparation was carried out using conventional grinding, dimpling and ion milling techniques. Special care was taken to avoid exposure of the thin films to water during the preparation processes.


Author(s):  
I-Fei Tsu ◽  
D.L. Kaiser ◽  
S.E. Babcock

A current theme in the study of the critical current density behavior of YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO) grain boundaries is that their electromagnetic properties are heterogeneous on various length scales ranging from 10s of microns to ˜ 1 Å. Recently, combined electromagnetic and TEM studies on four flux-grown bicrystals have demonstrated a direct correlation between the length scale of the boundaries’ saw-tooth facet configurations and the apparent length scale of the electrical heterogeneity. In that work, enhanced critical current densities are observed at applied fields where the facet period is commensurate with the spacing of the Abrikosov flux vortices which must be pinned if higher critical current density values are recorded. To understand the microstructural origin of the flux pinning, the grain boundary topography and grain boundary dislocation (GBD) network structure of [001] tilt YBCO bicrystals were studied by TEM and HRTEM.


2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 523-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su-Jeong Suh ◽  
Chang-Hyoung Lee ◽  
Young-Lae Cho ◽  
Hwa-Sun Park ◽  
Won-Pyo Lee ◽  
...  

1987 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1587-1602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadashi Takemori ◽  
Masahiro Inoue ◽  
Kazuo Ohtaka

1991 ◽  
Vol 58 (11) ◽  
pp. 1205-1207 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Ono ◽  
L. F. Goodrich ◽  
J. A. Beall ◽  
M. E. Johansson ◽  
C. D. Reintsema

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 689-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Mikhailova ◽  
Landysh Antonova ◽  
Irina Borovitskaya ◽  
Oleg Krokhin ◽  
Alexey Majorov ◽  
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