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Polymer-assisted chemical solution deposition of high-quality La2Zr2O7 buffer layer applied to low-cost YBCO-coated conductors

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Through a simple and low-cost way to gain the precursor solution, high-quality La2Zr2O7 (LZO) buffer layers approximately 300 nm thick only by one single coating were successfully deposited on the textured Ni-5at%W alloy substrates using an independently developed new method of polymer-assisted chemical solution deposition (PA-CSD) with and without Y2O3 seed layer. Highly epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO) thin film with thickness of 500 nm is managed to be deposited on LZO/Y2O3/NiW. A study was made on the buffers and YBCO films with XRD, AFM, FIB-SEM, ESEM, and through superconducting critical temperature (Tc) analyses, and it was found that the Y2O3 seed layer had a good effect in improving the c-axis texture for the performance of LZO thin films. More importantly, the value of the self-field critical current density (Jc) of YBCO film on LZO/Y2O3/NiW architecture was 1.6 MA/cm2 at 77 K. Our results indicated that the low-cost and effective way to develop high-performance YBCO-coated conductors on the basis of high-quality LZO buffer layer were suitable candidates.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51702265). The authors would like to thank the Jinsheng Li scholarship for the financial support.

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  1. Institute of Fusion Science, School of Physical Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, Sichuan, China

    Heng Li & Xin Zhang

  2. Superconductivity and New Energy Center (SNEC), Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, Sichuan, China

    Yudong Xia

  3. College of Physics and Energy, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, 350117, China

    Xifeng Pan & Yong Zhao

  4. Traction Power State Key Laboratory, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, Sichuan, China

    Jinfang Peng

  5. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    C. H. Cheng

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Li, H., Zhang, X., Xia, Y. et al. Polymer-assisted chemical solution deposition of high-quality La2Zr2O7 buffer layer applied to low-cost YBCO-coated conductors. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 5617–5621 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03128-w

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