Electrodeposited Biaxially Textured Buffer Layers for YBCO Superconductors

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/tasc.2009.2019603· OSTI ID:968193

Bhattacharya, R; Phok, S; Zhao, W; Norman, A

Non-vacuum electrodeposition (ED) was used to prepare simplified Gd{sub 2}O{sub 3}/Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} and CeO{sub 2}/Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} buffer layers on a Ni-W substrate. Post-annealing conditions of electrodeposited precursor films were optimized to obtain high-quality biaxially textured buffer layers. The buffer layers were characterized by X-ray diffraction, optical profiling, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The effect of the cap layer thickness on the surface morphology and texture of the buffers was also studied. The microstructure of CeO{sub 2}/Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} was analyzed and compared to Gd{sub 2}O{sub 3}/Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7}. The high-resolution TEM shows biaxially textured crystalline elctrodeposited Gd{sub 2}O{sub 3} and CeO{sub 2} cap layers on the electrodeposited Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} layers without any defects. YBa{sub 2}Cu{sub 3}O{sub 7}-delta (YBCO) superconductor was deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on the simplified ED-Gd{sub 2}O{sub 3}/Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} and ED-CeO{sub 2}/Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} buffers. Transport current density of 3.3 MA/cm{sup 2} at 77 K was obtained for PLD YBCO deposited on ED-Gd{sub 2}O{sub 3}/Gd{sub 2}Zr{sub 2}O{sub 7} buffer layers.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-99-GO10337
• OSTI ID: 968193
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
BUFFERS
CURRENT DENSITY
DEFECTS
DEPOSITION
ELECTRODEPOSITION
LASERS
MICROSTRUCTURE
MORPHOLOGY
PRECURSOR
SUPERCONDUCTORS
TEXTURE
THICKNESS
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
TRANSPORT
X-RAY DIFFRACTION
Basic Sciences