Research on REBCO Films and Conductors
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 7262
Special Issue Editors
Interests: superconductivity; thin films; REBCO; nanocomposites
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Interests: material characterization; materials; thin films; solid state physics; thin films and nanotechnology; condensed matter physics; nanomaterials; metals; nanotechnology; materials science
Interests: transmission electron microscope; nanoparticles; thin film; nanocomposite; material; scanning electron microscope; X-ray diffraction; superconductor; ferroelectric; opto-electronic; electronic; nucleation and growth
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, REBa2Cu3O7−δ (REBCO) films have attracted much interest in the field of applied superconductivity. As base materials of second-generation (2G) high-Tc superconducting tapes and coated conductors (CCs), the improvement of their performance is essential for the large-scale use of the CCs in multiple applications, such as high-field magnets, motors, generators, and fault–current limiters. Nevertheless, the proliferation of CCs not only depends on their performance but also on their price. Therefore, the efforts of most researchers in the field are devoted to decreasing the cost/performance ratio, i.e., decreasing the fabrication costs and increasing the performances of CCs. Although in the past, most of the studies about the preparation of REBCO thin films were carried out by in situ techniques such as metal–organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), pulsed laser deposition (PLD), or sputtering, chemical methods have appeared in recent years as an attractive alternative to the previous techniques. Versatile and scalable chemical methods, of which chemical solution deposition (CSD) is the most relevant, have proven to be useful for improving the performance of films, while the production cost is drastically reduced. However, even today, there is much room for improvement in both types of technique. New advances that allow for improvements in the quality of the films or that help to decrease fabrication costs are required to further spread the use of the CCs, and this Special Issue of Crystals aims to collect papers reporting on such new ideas and methods.
Dr. Pablo Cayado
Dr. Jens Hänisch
Dr. Hannes Rijckaert
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- thin films
- superconductor
- REBCO compounds
- sol–gel
- chemical solution deposition (CSD)
- nanoparticles
- pinning
- nanocomposites
- transport properties
- magnetic properties.
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