We measured forces applied by an actuator with a YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) film at near 77 K for the Large-scale Cryogenic Gravitational-wave Telescope (LCGT) project. An actuator consisting of both a YBCO film of 1.6 μm thickness and 0.81 cm area and a solenoid coil exerted a force of up to 0.2 mN on a test mass. The presented actuator system can be used to displace the mirror of LCGT for fringe lock o...

A rapid and simple procedure for the determination of non-stoichiometric oxygen in YBa2Cu3O7 d (YBCO) superconductors is described, based on the relationship between oxygen content and c-axis parameter of the YBCO structure. To test the proposed method the oxygen content of samples sinterised starting from different precursors has been calculated from X-ray powder diffraction analysis and compa...

The spontaneous flux generation and magnetic field modulation of the critical current in a 0−π Josephson junction are calculated for different ratios of the junction length L to the Josephsen penetration depth λJ , and different ratios of the 0-junction length to the π-junction length. These calculations apply to a Pb-YBCO c-axis oriented junction with one YBCO twin boundary, as well as other e...

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...