Toward superconducting critical current by design

Sadovskyy, Ivan A.; Jia, Ying; Leroux, Maxime; Kwon, Jihwan; Hu, Hefei; Fang, Lei; Chaparro, Carlos; Zhu, Shaofei; Welp, Ulrich; Zuo, Jian -Min; Zhang, Yifei; Nakasaki, Ryusuke; Selvamanickam, Venkat; Crabtree, George W.; Koshelev, Alexei E.; Glatz, Andreas; Kwok, Wai -Kwong

doi:10.1002/adma.201600602

Title: Toward superconducting critical current by design

Journal Article · Thu Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Advanced Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201600602· OSTI ID:1339298

Sadovskyy, Ivan A. ^[1]; Jia, Ying ^[1]; Leroux, Maxime ^[1]; Kwon, Jihwan ^[2]; Hu, Hefei ^[2]; Fang, Lei ^[3]; Chaparro, Carlos ^[1]; Zhu, Shaofei ^[1]; Welp, Ulrich ^[1]; Zuo, Jian -Min ^[2]; Zhang, Yifei ^[4]; Nakasaki, Ryusuke ^[4]; Selvamanickam, Venkat ^[5]; Crabtree, George W. ^[6]; Koshelev, Alexei E. ^[1]; Glatz, Andreas ^[7]; Kwok, Wai -Kwong ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
SuperPower Corp., Schenectady, NY (United States)
Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)

The interaction of vortex matter with defects in applied superconductors directly determines their current carrying capacity. Defects range from chemically grown nanostructures and crystalline imperfections to the layered structure of the material itself. The vortex-defect interactions are non-additive in general, leading to complex dynamic behavior that has proven difficult to capture in analytical models. With recent rapid progress in computational powers, a new paradigm has emerged that aims at simulation assisted design of defect structures with predictable ‘critical-current-by-design’: analogous to the materials genome concept of predicting stable materials structures of interest. We demonstrate the feasibility of this paradigm by combining large-scale time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau numerical simulations with experiments on commercial high temperature superconductor (HTS) containing well-controlled correlated defects.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Emergent Superconductivity (CES)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22) Materials Sciences and Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1339298

Journal Information:: Advanced Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 23; ISSN 0935-9648

Publisher:: WileyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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