Enhancing critical current density of cuprate superconductors

Title: Enhancing critical current density of cuprate superconductors

The present invention concerns the enhancement of critical current densities in cuprate superconductors. Such enhancement of critical current densities include using wave function symmetry and restricting movement of Abrikosov (A) vortices, Josephson (J) vortices, or Abrikosov-Josephson (A-J) vortices by using the half integer vortices associated with d-wave symmetry present in the grain boundary.

Inventors:: Chaudhari, Praveen

Issue Date:: 2015-06-16

OSTI Identifier:: 1184531

Assignee:: Solar-Tectic LLC (Briarcliff Manor, NY) CHO

Patent Number(s):: 9,059,371

Application Number:: 13/155,508

Contract Number:: AC02-98CH10886

Research Org:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org:: USDOE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

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Tsuei, C. C.; Kirtley, J. R.
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