CeO2/La2Zr2O7 composite buffer layers were deposited on Ni-W tapes using chemical solution method. YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) films were then deposited on the CeO2/La2Zr2O7 composite buffer layers using a low-fluorine solution route. Effect of the annealing temperature and annealing atmosphere on the texture of the CeO2 layers was investigated. It was found that CeO2 film annealed at 1000°C under the a...

The variation of the phase of the response of YBCO edge-transition bolometers on crystalline MgO substrate is found to be dependent on the normal–superconducting transition. The phase of the response for T < Tc increased at low modulation frequencies where the thermal diffusion length into the sample substrate from the top absorbing YBCO film is longer than the substrate thickness. The substrat...

Applications of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) demand not only high quality thin films with excellent electrical properties, but also appropriate patterning techniques. Conventional fabrication methods usually lead to a degradation of patterned HTS thin films, as a consequence of contamination, acidlwater reaction, and physical damage of the film surface. In this work, we developed a no...

The superconducting transition in a single overdoped, detwinned YBa2Cu3Ox (YBCO) crystal is studied using four different probes. Whereas the AC and DC magnetic susceptibilities find a dominant transition at 88 K with a smaller effect near 92 K, the specific heat and electrical resistivity reveal only a single transition at 88 K and 92 K, respectively. Under hydrostatic pressures to 0.60 GPa the...

A small pancake coil was wound using 1.2m long, 10 mm wide YBCO coated superconductor tape with impregnation by epoxy resin. The coil was immersed in liquid nitrogen and tested in several regimes. In the DC regime, we measured the I-V curve, the hysteresis of the magnetic field-current curve at liquid nitrogen temperature and the radial component of the coil field at the coil edges. The critica...

We propose a design theory of the miniaturized high temperature superconducting (HTS) coplanar waveguide (CPW) bandpass filter (BPF), which is composed of meanderline quarter-wavelength resonator, Jand K-inverters. The Jand K-inverters are realized by using interdigital gap and meander-shape inductor. To evaluate the kinetic inductance of the K-inverter, we fabricate the YBCO resonator connecte...

Superconducting split-ring resonator arrays allow to overcome two main limitations affecting metallic metamaterial resonating in the terahertz (THz) range: ohmic losses and tunability of their optical response. In this work, we design experimentally realize direct complementary square superconducting YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) resonators working THz spectral range. The purpose paper is show how resonance...

An unusual noise component is found near and below about 250 K in the normal state of underdoped YBCO and Ca-YBCO films. This noise regime, unlike the more typical noise above 250 K, has features expected for a symmetry-breaking collective electronic state. These include large individual fluctuators, a magnetic sensitivity, and aging effects. A possible interpretation in terms of fluctuating ch...

New advances toward microstructural improvement of epitaxial CeO2 films grown by chemical solution deposition and their use as buffer layers for YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) films are presented. We demonstrate that the degree of epitaxy and the fraction of (001) atomically flat surface area are controlled by the incorporation of tetravalent (Zr) or trivalent (Gd) cations into the ceria lattice. The degree ...

We investigated the properties of all-high-Tc edge-geometry Josephson weak links using superconducting YBa2Cu307+ (YBCO) electrodes and PrBa2Cu307-~ (PBCO) normal-metal layers. The fabrication of the weak-links involved first ionmilling the base YBCO film using a MgO mask to form the edge and then depositing PBCO and YBCO layers in situ by pulsed-laser deposition. The optimum PBCO films had res...