Search Menu
DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Search Scholarly Publications

Title: Toward superconducting critical current by design

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [4];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [1];  [7];  [1]
+ Show Author Affiliations
  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  2. Univ. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
  4. SuperPower Corp., Schenectady, NY (United States)
  5. Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX (United States)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (United States)
  7. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Emergent Superconductivity (CES)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22) Materials Sciences and Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
OSTI Identifier:
1339298
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 28; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

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, and Kwok, Wai -Kwong. Toward superconducting critical current by design. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201600602.
Copy to clipboard
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. Toward superconducting critical current by design. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201600602
Copy to clipboard
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, and Kwok, Wai -Kwong. Thu . "Toward superconducting critical current by design". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201600602. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1339298.
Copy to clipboard
@article{osti_1339298,
title = {Toward superconducting critical current by design},
author = {Sadovskyy, Ivan A. and Jia, Ying and Leroux, Maxime and Kwon, Jihwan and Hu, Hefei and Fang, Lei and Chaparro, Carlos and Zhu, Shaofei and Welp, Ulrich and Zuo, Jian -Min and Zhang, Yifei and Nakasaki, Ryusuke and Selvamanickam, Venkat and Crabtree, George W. and Koshelev, Alexei E. and Glatz, Andreas and Kwok, Wai -Kwong},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201600602},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 23,
volume = 28,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
Copy to clipboard
Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201600602
Copyright Statement
Other availability
Search WorldCat Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 46 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Save / Share:
Export Metadata
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.

Works referenced in this record:

Strongly enhanced current densities in superconducting coated conductors of YBa2Cu3O7–x + BaZrO3
journal, May 2004

  • MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.; Foltyn, S. R.; Jia, Q. X.
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 7, p. 439-443
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat1156

Vortex-induced negative magnetoresistance and peak effect in narrow superconducting films
journal, July 2013

Vortex Phase Diagram for Mesoscopic Superconducting Disks
journal, September 1998

The flux-line lattice in superconductors
journal, November 1995

Vortex pinning and creep in high-temperature superconductors with columnar defects
journal, July 1997

Enhanced critical currents in (Gd,Y)Ba 2 Cu 3 O x superconducting tapes with high levels of Zr addition
journal, January 2013

Synergetic combination of different types of defect to optimize pinning landscape using BaZrO3-doped YBa2Cu3O7
journal, April 2009

  • Maiorov, B.; Baily, S. A.; Zhou, H.
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat2408

Flux vortices and transport currents in type II superconductors
journal, March 1972

High-Performance High-Tc Superconducting Wires
journal, March 2006

Enhanced Pinning with Controlled Splay Configurations of Columnar Defects; Rapid Vortex Motion at Large Angles
journal, April 1996

Vortices in high-temperature superconductors
journal, October 1994

High critical currents in heavily doped (Gd,Y)Ba2Cu3Ox superconductor tapes
journal, January 2015

  • Selvamanickam, V.; Gharahcheshmeh, M. Heydari; Xu, A.
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 106, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4906205

Role of weak uncorrelated pinning introduced by BaZrO 3 nanorods at low-temperature in ( Y , Gd ) Ba 2 Cu 3 O x thin films
journal, September 2012

The high-throughput highway to computational materials design
journal, February 2013

  • Curtarolo, Stefano; Hart, Gus L. W.; Nardelli, Marco Buongiorno
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat3568

High Performance 2G Wires: From R&D to Pilot-Scale Manufacturing
journal, June 2009

  • Selvamanickam, V.; Chen, Yimin; Xiong, Xuming
  • IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 19, Issue 3, p. 3225-3230
  • DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2018792

A general scaling relation for the critical current density in Nb 3 Sn
journal, September 2006

  • Godeke, A.; Haken, B. ten; Kate, H. H. J. ten
  • Superconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 19, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/19/10/R02

Structures and effects of radiation damage in cuprate superconductors irradiated with several-hundred-MeV heavy ions
journal, September 1993

Columnar defects in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ induced by irradiation with high energy heavy ions
journal, September 1993

  • Wheeler, R.; Kirk, M. A.; Marwick, A. D.
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 63, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.110753

Superconducting materials for large scale applications
journal, October 2004

  • Scanlan, R. M.; Malozemoff, A. P.; Larbalestier, D. C.
  • Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 92, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2004.833673

Requirements to achieve high in-field critical current density at 30 K in heavily-doped (Gd,Y)Ba 2 Cu 3 O x superconductor tapes
journal, August 2015

Flux pinning mechanisms in type II superconductors
journal, August 1974

Angular dependence of J c for YBCO coated conductors at low temperature and very high magnetic fields
journal, December 2009

Double disordered YBCO coated conductors of industrial scale: high currents in high magnetic field
journal, October 2015

Optimization of vortex pinning by nanoparticles using simulations of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model
journal, February 2016

Critical current density above 15 MA cm −2 at 30 K, 3 T in 2.2 μ m thick heavily-doped (Gd,Y)Ba 2 Cu 3 O x superconductor tapes
journal, May 2015

  • Selvamanickam, V.; Gharahcheshmeh, M. Heydari; Xu, A.
  • Superconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 28, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/28/7/072002

Huge critical current density and tailored superconducting anisotropy in SmFeAsO0.8F0.15 by low-density columnar-defect incorporation
journal, November 2013

  • Fang, L.; Jia, Y.; Mishra, V.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3655

Vortex Pinning of Anisotropically Splayed Defects in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 − δ
journal, January 1998

Vortex confinement by columnar defects in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 crystals: Enhanced pinning at high fields and temperatures
journal, July 1991

Pinning in type II superconductors
journal, February 1979

  • Larkin, A. I.; Ovchinnikov, Yu. N.
  • Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Vol. 34, Issue 3-4
  • DOI: 10.1007/BF00117160

Novel Commensurability Effects in Superconducting Films with Antidot Arrays
journal, May 2006

Scaling laws for flux pinning in hard superconductors
journal, March 1973

  • Kramer, Edward J.
  • Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.1662353

Stable large-scale solver for Ginzburg–Landau equations for superconductors
journal, August 2015

  • Sadovskyy, I. A.; Koshelev, A. E.; Phillips, C. L.
  • Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 294
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2015.04.002

Superconducting properties of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ films deposited on commercial tape substrates, decorated with Pd or Ta nano-islands
journal, January 2012

The world of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation
journal, February 2002

Numerical simulations of driven vortex systems
journal, January 2000

Swift heavy ions in insulating and conducting oxides: tracks and physical properties
journal, June 1994

  • Toulemonde, M.; Bouffard, S.; Studer, F.
  • Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 91, Issue 1-4
  • DOI: 10.1016/0168-583X(94)96200-6

Anisotropically splayed and columnar defects in untwinned YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 − δ
journal, December 1998

Addition of nanoparticle dispersions to enhance flux pinning of the YBa2Cu3O7-x superconductor
journal, August 2004

Simulation of the Vortex Dynamics in a Real Pinning Landscape of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 − δ Coated Conductors
journal, January 2016

Flux pinning mechanisms in type II superconductors
journal, August 1974

Double disordered YBCO coated conductors of industrial scale: high currents in high magnetic field
journal, October 2015

Accommodation of vortices to columnar defects: Evidence for large entropic reduction of vortex localization
journal, May 1996

Flux pinning and forced vortex entanglement by splayed columnar defects
journal, November 1993

    Sort by:
    [ × clear filter / sort ]

    Works referencing / citing this record:

    High current variable temperature electrical characterization system for superconducting wires and tapes with continuous sample rotation in a split coil magnet
    journal, January 2019

    • Lao, M.; Hänisch, J.; Kauffmann-Weiss, S.
    • Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 90, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.1063/1.5078447

    Enhanced flux pinning in YBCO multilayer films with BCO nanodots and segmented BZO nanorods
    journal, October 2017

    Glassy Dynamics in a heavy ion irradiated NbSe2 crystal
    text, January 2018

    Edge effect pinning in mesoscopic superconducting strips with non-uniform distribution of defects
    journal, January 2019

    Targeted evolution of pinning landscapes for large superconducting critical currents
    journal, April 2019

    • Sadovskyy, Ivan A.; Koshelev, Alexei E.; Kwok, Wai-Kwong
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 116, Issue 21
    • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1817417116

    Strong-pinning regimes by spherical inclusions in anisotropic type-II superconductors
    text, January 2017

    Vortices in high-performance high-temperature superconductors
    journal, September 2016

    The Quest for High Critical Current in Applied High-Temperature Superconductors
    journal, September 2019

    • Glatz, Andreas; Sadovskyy, Ivan A.; Welp, Ulrich
    • Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, Vol. 33, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.1007/s10948-019-05255-w

    Glassy Dynamics in a heavy ion irradiated NbSe2 crystal
    journal, September 2018

    Targeted evolution of pinning landscapes for large superconducting critical currents
    text, January 2019

    Strong-pinning regimes by spherical inclusions in anisotropic type-II superconductors
    journal, November 2017

    • Willa, R.; Koshelev, A. E.; Sadovskyy, I. A.
    • Superconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 31, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/aa939e

    Vortex dynamics in type-II superconductors under strong pinning conditions
    journal, October 2017

    Extended electronic structure inhomogeneity created by double chain layer defects surrounding columnar tracks in heavy-ion irradiated YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ
    journal, August 2018

    • Kwon, Ji-Hwan; Meng, Yifei; Wu, Lijun
    • Superconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 31, Issue 10
    • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/aad842

    Competition between pinning produced by extrinsic random point disorder and superconducting thermal fluctuations in oxygen-deficient GdBa 2 Cu 3 O x coated conductors
    journal, November 2019

    • Haberkorn, N.; Guimpel, J.; Suárez, S.
    • Superconductor Science and Technology, Vol. 32, Issue 12
    • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/ab5164

    The quest for high critical current in applied high-temperature superconductors
    text, January 2019

    Glassy Dynamics in a heavy ion irradiated NbSe2 crystal
    journal, September 2018

    Pushing the limits for the highest critical currents in superconductors
    journal, May 2019

    • Civale, Leonardo
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 116, Issue 21
    • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905568116
      Sort by:
      [ × clear filter / sort ]

      Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections: