YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films prepared by Chemical Solution Deposition
The discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials by Bednorz and Müller [2, 3] in early 1987, immediately followed by Wu et al. [4, 5] who showed that YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO) becomes superconducting (92K) well above the boiling point of nitrogen (77K) created a great excitement in superconductivity research. Potential applications of high Tc-superconductors require large critical currents and high-applied magnetic fields. Effective ways to increase the critical current density at high magnetic fields in YBCO are the introduction of nanoparticles and chemical substitution of yttrium by other rare earth elements. Since low costs and environmental compatibility are essential conditions for the preparation of long length YBCO films, the cost effective chemical solution deposition (CSD) procedure was selected, given that no vacuum technology is required. To reveal the flexibility and the good optimization possibilities of the CSD approach two main processes were chosen for comparison: a fluorine-free method, namely the polymer-metal precursor technique, and a fluorine-based method, the metalorganic deposition (MOD) using the trifluoroacetates (TFA) technique. Sharp transition temperature widths DTc of 1.1K for the polymer metal method, 0.8K for TFA method and critical current densities Jc of _3.5MA/cm2 shows that high quality YBCO thin films can be produced using both techniques. Especially interesting is the magnetic field dependence of the critical current density Jc(B) of the Y(Dy)BCO (80 %) films showing that for the lower magnetic fields the critical current density Jc(B) is higher for a standard YBCO film, but at fields higher than 4.5T the critical current density Jc(B) of Y(Dy)BCO is larger than that for the YBCO. Above 8T, Jc(B) of the Y(Dy)BCO film is more than one order of magnitude higher than in pure YBCO film.
YBCO, chemical solution deposition, sol-gel process, fluorine-free method, polymers, chemische Abscheidung, Sol-Gel Prozesse
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