Reel-to-Reel Deposition of Reactively Sputtered LaZrO Buffer Layers on Textured NiW Tapes for YBaCuO Coated Conductors

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 25 - Trang 773-777 - 2011
F. Fan1, Y. M. Lu1, Z. Y. Liu1, L. L. Ying2, C. B. Cai1
1Research Centre for Superconductors and Applied Technologies, Physics Department, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
2State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of MicroSystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Tóm tắt

A biaxially textured buffer layer of LaZrO (LZO) was continuously grown on Ni-5-at%W (NiW) tapes using a reel-to-reel DC reactive sputtering technique. X-ray diffraction measurements revealed that the LZO layer deposited at water vapor partial pressures of 2.5×10−2 Pa and the temperature of 800 °C are biaxially textured with the misorientation as low as 4.7°. AFM measurements show that the layer’s surfaces are homogeneous and flat with the RMS value less than 5 nm. YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO) superconducting films grown on the single LZO buffer layer exhibited the critical temperature (T c ) of 89 K with a narrow transition width less than 2 K. For comparison, another Ce2Y2O7 (CYO) layer grown using DC reactive sputtering was added on the top of the LZO layer. The architecture YBCO/CYO/LZO/NiW exhibited better texture and higher T c such as 90 K with ΔT c of 1.5 K, demonstrating the availability of a novel simplified buffer layer stack of CYO/LZO for superconducting coated conductors.

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