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Today, the deposition of coated conductors on a variety of substrates is often performed using a vacuum or low pressure technique. However, obtaining uninterrupted deposition at high speed, increasing flexibility in composition and attaining independence of geometric constraints of the substrates are areas in which vacuum techniques will need sustained development in order to answer industrial demands. The development of the next generation of deposition methods, based on deposition under atmospheric environment and from aqueous precursor solutions is a real challenge. This work describes the deposition of thin NdBa2Cu3O7-y layers on SrTiO3 single crystals based on a new sol-gel dip coating process using aqueous precursor solutions. Two inorganic aqueous sol-gel routes were investigated, a metal nitrate–citric acid based and a metal acetate–triethanol amine based solution. Using detailed thermal analysis, it is shown that adjusting the different parameters during thermal treatment can be used to control the morphology of the films. Also special attention is given to the microstructure of the thin film because of its relevance to the superconducting transport properties of the coated conductor system.
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Schoofs, B., Mouganie, T., Glowacki, B.A. et al. Synthesis of highly textured superconducting NdBa2Cu3O7-y thin films by two aqueous sol-gel dip coating techniques. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 41, 113–122 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-006-0517-7
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