Artificial and self-assembled vortex-pinning centers in superconducting Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 thin films as a route to obtaining very high critical-current densities
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C. Tarantini,1 S. Lee,2 F. Kametani,1 J. Jiang,1 J. D. Weiss,1 J. Jaroszynski,1 C. M. Folkman,2 E. E. Hellstrom,1 C. B. Eom,2 and D. C. Larbalestier1 1Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee Florida 32310, USA 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA (Received 19 June 2012; revised manuscript received 14 November 2012; published 7 December 2012)
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