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SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/22/8/085013
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- US Department of Energy-Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
- Superconductivity Program for Electric Power Systems.
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We report the thickness dependence of critical current density (J(c)) in YBa2Cu3O7-delta (YBCO) films with 5 mol% BaZrO3 (BZO) and 5 mol% Y2O3 additions grown on single crystal SrTiO3 substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The results show that adding BZO + Y2O3 has reduced the thickness dependence of the self-field critical current density (J(c)(sf)), compared to that observed in optimized YBCO films, with a significant enhancement of J(c)(sf) in the thick film region (> 2 mu m). The so-called 'dead layer' did not appear until the film thickness was greater than 6.4 mu m. We attribute this improvement to the additional pinning centers introduced in the bulk by the addition and a decrease in microstructure degradation with thickness. As a result, J(c)(sf) remains as high as 2.3 MA cm(-2) in a 6.4 mu m thick film. The combination of this high J(c)(sf) value and the enhancement of the in-field J(c) induced by the additions, which was observed in the whole thickness range, leads to a critical current per centimeter width (Ic-w) in excess of 400 A cm(-1) at 1 T and 75.5 K and 530 A cm(-1) at 3 T and 65 K under all field directions.
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