TY - JOUR
T1 - Flux pinning characteristics of artificial pinning centers with different dimension
AU - Matsumoto, Kaname
AU - Mele, Paolo
AU - Ichinose, Ataru
AU - Mukaida, Masashi
AU - Yoshida, Yutaka
AU - Horii, Shigeru
AU - Kita, Ryusuke
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received August 25, 2008. First published June 30, 2009; current version published July 15, 2009. This work was supported by the CREST of JST, Japan. K. Matsumoto and P. Mele are with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu, 804-8550, Japan (e-mail: matsu@post.matsc.kyutech.ac.jp; pmele@post.matsc.kyutech.ac.jp). A. Ichinose is with the Electric Power Engineering Research Laboratory, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Yokosuka 240-0196, Japan (e-mail: ai@criepi.denken.or.jp). M. Mukaida is with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan (e-mail: mukaida@zaiko. kyushu-u.ac.jp). Y. Yoshida is with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 46408603, Japan (e-mail: yoshida@ees. nagoya-u.ac.jp). S. Horii is with the Department of Applied Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan (e-mail: tholy@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp). R. Kita is with the Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu 432-8651, Japan (e-mail: terkita@ipc.shizuoka.ac.jp). Color versions of one or more of the figures in this paper are available online at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018186
PY - 2009/6
Y1 - 2009/6
N2 - The crystal defects of the nano-scale, which are called artificial pinning centers (APCs), were successfully introduced into high-temperature superconductors (HTS) by nanotechnology, in order to strongly pin the quantized vortices. Critical current densities Jc of the HTS films were dramatically improved by APCs whose dimensions were controlled. By this method, the in-field Jc (77 K) of the high-quality, epitaxial films was improved by one order of magnitude or more compared with the values of the past. A current outline of the research is described in this paper.
AB - The crystal defects of the nano-scale, which are called artificial pinning centers (APCs), were successfully introduced into high-temperature superconductors (HTS) by nanotechnology, in order to strongly pin the quantized vortices. Critical current densities Jc of the HTS films were dramatically improved by APCs whose dimensions were controlled. By this method, the in-field Jc (77 K) of the high-quality, epitaxial films was improved by one order of magnitude or more compared with the values of the past. A current outline of the research is described in this paper.
KW - High-temperature superconductor
KW - Nanotech- nology
KW - Superconducting films
KW - Superconducting materials
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U2 - 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018186
DO - 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018186
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:68649084656
SN - 1051-8223
VL - 19
SP - 3248
EP - 3253
JO - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
JF - IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
IS - 3
M1 - 5153240
ER -