Development of YBCO-coated conductors for electric power applications

Abstract

Biaxially textured MgO template films have been fabricated on a Ni-based alloy substrate (Hastelloy C276) by inclined-substrate deposition (ISD), using electron beam evaporation, at the high deposition rate of 120–300 nm/min. Buffer films were subsequently deposited on these template films, and YBCO films were finally deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Crystal textures of the YBCO films were examined by X-ray pole figure, φ- and ω-scans analysis. Good in-plane and out-of-plane textures were observed, with MgO(0 0 2) φ-scan full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of 10.0° and ω-scan FWHM of 5.5°, for a film deposited with an incline angle of 55°. YBCO films were epitaxially grown on ISD MgO-buffered Hastelloy C276 substrates by PLD. T c of 90 K with sharp transition and transport J c of ≈1.4×10 5 A/cm 2 were obtained on a 0.5-μm-thick YBCO film at 77 K in zero field.