| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1818670 | Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications | 2010 | 4 Pages |
On the research and development of coated conductors in Japan, the Ic characteristics and the length have been remarkably improved in the national project. Five hundred meter-long tapes with higher Ic values than 300 A/cm-width were realized by the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) and the metal organic deposition using trifluoroacetates (TFA-MOD) processings for the superconducting layer on the IBAD-GZO buffered substrates. In order to realize the low cost by the increasing the production rate of the ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) layer, the process of IBAD-MgO was developed and a 1000 m-long IBAD buffer tape was fabricated at an extremely high production rate of 1 km/h. On the other hand, the artificial pinning center has been introduced in both PLD and MOD processing. The BaZrO3 nano-rods were aligned along the c-axis of GdBCO superconducting films by the PLD process. The Jc value in the magnetic field parallel to the c-axis was remarkably improved. Additionally, the BaZrO3 nano-particles were uniformly dispersed in YGdBCO films by the TFA-MOD process and the Jc–B–θ property was confirmed to be isotropic.Based on the above-mentioned achievements, the new national project, whose main objective is the development of some electric power applications using a coated conductor, started in 2008. In this project, the improvement of the coated conductor includes the five sub-themes: (1) degradation of tapes, (2) high Ic under magnetic field, (3) low AC loss, (4) high mechanical strength and high Je and (5) low cost and high yield.
