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High-Field Pinning Potential in YBCO Films with Nanoengineered Pinning Centres

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Frequency-dependent AC susceptibility measurements have been used to estimate the critical current densities and pinning potential of two 1.1-μm-thick YBCO films with nanoengineered pinning centres. The films were grown by pulsed laser deposition using a target with 4 % BaZrO3 nanoinclusions. Data were analysed in the framework of the Anderson-Kim model, collective pinning model, and a model due to Zeldov that implies a logarithmic dependence of pinning potential on the current density. It was found that the latter describes better our experimental data, and that the resulting pinning potential has reasonable high values in high magnetic field up to 9 T, indicating a high current-carrying capability in high magnetic fields.

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Acknowledgments

Work in Birmingham has been supported by the EU Marie Curie Excellence Grant “NanoTechPinningHTS”. Work at NIMP Bucharest has been supported by UEFISCDI Romania, under Grant PN II PCCA No. 138/2012. Most of the data analysis and fitting has been done during a workshop at the Spring School and Educational Courses, International Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism, Antalya, Turkey, 21 April–2 May 2014. Support of the Center of Excellence for Superconductivity Research, Ankara University, is also gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia

    J. C. Collazos

  2. Department of Physics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey

    S. B. Güner

  3. Department of Electrics and Electronics, TOBB ETŰ, 06560, Ankara, Turkey

    M. Eren Çelik

  4. Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, MG-11, Magurele-Bucharest, 077125, Romania

    A. Oprea

  5. DFCTI “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), POB-MG6 077125, Magurele-Bucharest, 077126, Romania

    A. Oprea

  6. Laboratory of Information Technologies, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 6, Joliot-Curie St. Dubna, Moscow, 141980, Russia

    A. Oprea

  7. Center of Excellence for Superconductivity Research, Ankara University Gölbaşi, Ankara, Turkey

    A. Gencer

  8. School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2, TT, United Kingdom

    A. Crisan

  9. National Institute of Materials Physics, MG-7, Magurele-Bucharest, 077125, Romania

    A. Crisan

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Collazos, J.C., Güner, S.B., Eren Çelik, M. et al. High-Field Pinning Potential in YBCO Films with Nanoengineered Pinning Centres. J Supercond Nov Magn 28, 355–360 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-014-2671-4

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