Improvement of magnetic properties for long YGdBCO coated conductors using TFA-MOD process

YxGd(1-x)Ba2Cu3Oy(YGdBCO) coated conductors (CCs) containing artificial pinning centers (APCs) were fabricated by the trifluoroacetate-metalorganic deposition (TFA-MOD) method using a batch heat-treatment process, which have been industrially applied to fabricate long superconducting tapes which have high critical current (Ic) have been successfully manufactured. From the viewpoint of applications, the characteristics in magnetic fields become further important and one solution has been showed by Miura et al. [1,2] as introduction of APCs such as BaZrO3 (BZO). We applied their technique to our CCs fabrication process. The heat-treatment conditions, specifically total gas pressure, oxygen concentration and crystallization temperature, were optimized for the batch heat-treatment process. A 40 m-long YGdBCO CC in which APCs are introduced was fabricated, and it has Ic value of 320 A/cm-width (critical current density (Jc) value of 2.2 MA/cm2) in self-field and 20 A/cm-width at 3 T in Liq. N2.