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New YBCO superconducting wires obtained from narrow textured tubes

P Odier1, A Allais2, C Millon3, S Morlens1,4, L Ortega1, C Jiménez3, L Porcar1, X Chaud1, P Chaudouët3, S Pairis1, P Tixador1 and J L Soubeyroux1

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A conductor wire consisting of Ag/YBCO/LZO/Ni–5 at.%W RABITS has been processed as a cylindrical tube of millimetre diameter. Textured layers of LZO and YBCO were grown by chemical methods. Electron backscattered diffraction was used to characterize the texture of the LZO surface which was good enough to be used as a template for YBCO deposition. The YBCO layer was textured and had a superconducting transition at 88 K. However, the quality of both LZO and YBCO must be improved to consider practical applications in electrical current transport. On the other hand, this work demonstrates that epitaxial growth of oxides on a curved surface by using chemical methods is possible.


PACS

84.71.Mn Superconducting wires, fibers, and tapes

81.15.Gh Chemical vapor deposition (including plasma-enhanced CVD, MOCVD, etc.)

74.78.Bz High-Tc films

74.72.Bk Y-based cuprates

68.55.-a Thin film structure and morphology

Subjects

Superconductivity

Surfaces, interfaces and thin films

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2009)

Received 18 June 2009, in final form 25 September 2009

Published 23 October 2009



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