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Pinning-Engineered YBa2Cu3Ox Thin Films

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This chapter gives an overview on the pure and applied research performed on YBCO added with artificial pinning centers (APCs) over the past ten years. Several categories of APCs are described in terms of their dimensionality (nanorods, nanoparticles, nanolayers, segmented nanorods, and more) , and experimental results are discussed under the framework of Ginzburg–Landau theory. YBCO films added with APCs offer outstanding pinning performance in a wide range of temperatures (4.2–77 K) and magnetic fields (1–30 T). APC technology appears as mature approach, and practical application of coated conductors +APCs is soon expected on the large scale.

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Acknowledgements

P.M. recognizes insightful discussions on thin-film deposition, flux pinning, vortex behavior, and APC engineering with many colleagues over the past ten years: K. Matsumoto, Y. Yoshida, S. Awaji, S. Horii, R. Kita, M. Mukaida, A. Ichinose, T. Horide, D. C. Larbalestier, B. Maiorov, V. Selvamanickam, and X. Obradors. P.M. also gratefully thanks H. Abe, H. Honda, S. Saini, A. K. Jha, and S. J. Singh for their invaluable support to the experiments.

P.M. acknowledges partial financial support by Kakenhi S, grant number 23226014.

A.C. acknowledges financial support from Romanian Ministry of Research and Innovation, POC project 28/01.09.2016.

M.I.A. acknowledges partial support from MOHE, Grant Scheme number FRGS/2/2014/SG06/UNITEN/02/3.

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Mele, P., Crisan, A., Adam, M.I. (2017). Pinning-Engineered YBa2Cu3Ox Thin Films. In: Crisan, A. (eds) Vortices and Nanostructured Superconductors. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 261. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59355-5_2

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