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Control of Vortex Pinning in YBCO Thin Films by Incorporating APCs Through Surface Modified Target Approach

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The transport of electrical currents in superconductors with much higher efficiency and without any dissipation is considered as the “energy superhighway.” After the discovery of YBa2Cu3O7-δ (YBCO), a high temperature superconductor (HTS), the prospect of using superconducting materials in practical technological applications became very prominent. With much higher T c (~ 92 K) than conventional low temperature superconductors (LTS), YBCO was considered very promising due to cheaper cooling requirements. The evolution of critical current density (J c), however, took long time for the material to become useful in practical applications. This was achieved through continuous modification of the processing parameters, deposition of highly oriented thin films on single crystal and buffered metallic substrates and use of artificial pinning centers (APCs) for strong pinning of quantized magnetic vortices.

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique is one of the most common and highly efficient techniques for depositing highly oriented YBCO thin films on single crystal and buffered metallic substrates. Using PLD technique, APCs are incorporated into YBCO thin films by many methods which include premixed target method, alternating target method and surface modified target method.

In this chapter, the use of surface modified target method to introduce different kinds of APCs into YBCO thin films is presented. These APCs are effective in improving the vortex pinning properties of YBCO thin films for different range of applied magnetic field and its orientation depending upon their geometry and density.

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We thank T. Horide, S. Saini, P. Mele, A. Ichinose, Y. Yoshida, and S. Awaji for cooperative research on vortex pinning studies in YBCO nanocomposite films.

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Jha, A.K., Matsumoto, K. (2020). Control of Vortex Pinning in YBCO Thin Films by Incorporating APCs Through Surface Modified Target Approach. In: Mele, P., et al. Superconductivity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23303-7_3

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