We report on the pulsed laser deposition and characterization of thick (1.27 um) films ablated from a nanocrystalline YBa2Cu3O7?d (YBCO) target doped with 4 wt\% BaZrO3 (BZO), nYBCO/BZO. DC magnetization measurements have shown a four- to five-fold increase in the critical current density Jc and a three- to four-fold increase in the maximum pinning force in comparison with 1 um thick films grown from a commercial microcrystalline YBCO target, at both 77.3 and 65 K. We have found that the frequency-dependent critical current densities Jc(f0/f) estimated from susceptibility measurements are linear in a double-logarithmic plot (where f is the frequency of the AC field and f0 is a macroscopic attempt frequency of about 106 Hz), consistent with a logarithmic dependence of the pinning potential on the current density, and are again several times higher in nYBCO/BZO thick films. From the slopes of the Jc(f0/f) dependences we have also estimated the values of pinning potentials in fields between 3 and 5 T.
%0 Journal Article
%1 0953-2048-22-4-045014
%A Crisan, A
%A Kechik, M M Awang
%A Mikheenko, P
%A Dang, V S
%A Sarkar, A
%A Abell, J S
%A Paturi, P
%A Huhtinen, H
%D 2009
%J Superconductor Science and Technology
%K APC pinning
%N 4
%P 045014 (5pp)
%T Critical current density and pinning potential in YBa2Cu3O7−δ thick films ablated from a BaZrO3-doped nanocrystalline target
%U http://stacks.iop.org/0953-2048/22/045014
%V 22
%X We report on the pulsed laser deposition and characterization of thick (1.27 um) films ablated from a nanocrystalline YBa2Cu3O7?d (YBCO) target doped with 4 wt\% BaZrO3 (BZO), nYBCO/BZO. DC magnetization measurements have shown a four- to five-fold increase in the critical current density Jc and a three- to four-fold increase in the maximum pinning force in comparison with 1 um thick films grown from a commercial microcrystalline YBCO target, at both 77.3 and 65 K. We have found that the frequency-dependent critical current densities Jc(f0/f) estimated from susceptibility measurements are linear in a double-logarithmic plot (where f is the frequency of the AC field and f0 is a macroscopic attempt frequency of about 106 Hz), consistent with a logarithmic dependence of the pinning potential on the current density, and are again several times higher in nYBCO/BZO thick films. From the slopes of the Jc(f0/f) dependences we have also estimated the values of pinning potentials in fields between 3 and 5 T.
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abstract = {We report on the pulsed laser deposition and characterization of thick (1.27 um) films ablated from a nanocrystalline YBa2Cu3O7[?]d (YBCO) target doped with 4 wt\% BaZrO3 (BZO), nYBCO/BZO. DC magnetization measurements have shown a four- to five-fold increase in the critical current density Jc and a three- to four-fold increase in the maximum pinning force in comparison with 1 um thick films grown from a commercial microcrystalline YBCO target, at both 77.3 and 65 K. We have found that the frequency-dependent critical current densities Jc(f0/f) estimated from susceptibility measurements are linear in a double-logarithmic plot (where f is the frequency of the AC field and f0 is a macroscopic attempt frequency of about 106 Hz), consistent with a logarithmic dependence of the pinning potential on the current density, and are again several times higher in nYBCO/BZO thick films. From the slopes of the Jc(f0/f) dependences we have also estimated the values of pinning potentials in fields between 3 and 5 T.},
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author = {Crisan, A and Kechik, M M Awang and Mikheenko, P and Dang, V S and Sarkar, A and Abell, J S and Paturi, P and Huhtinen, H},
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journal = {Superconductor Science and Technology},
keywords = {APC pinning},
number = 4,
pages = {045014 (5pp)},
timestamp = {2009-05-04T14:25:10.000+0200},
title = {Critical current density and pinning potential in YBa2Cu3O7\−\δ thick films ablated from a BaZrO3-doped nanocrystalline target},
url = {http://stacks.iop.org/0953-2048/22/045014},
volume = 22,
year = 2009
}