Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

International Superconductivity Technology Center

Tohoku Electric Power Company, Inc.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Kyocera Corporation

Ube Industries, Inc.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Ataru Ichinose

Shoji Tanaka

Takahiro Wada

Toshihiko Maeda

Hisao Yamauchi

Shin-ichi Koriyama

Yutaka Yoshida

Shigeru Horii

Kazuhiro Sakuyama

Kaname Matsumoto

Masashi Mukaida

Kazuyuki Hamada

Yuji Yaegashi

Nobuo Suzuki

The present invention relates to a superconducting film having a substrate and a superconductor layer formed on the substrate, in which nano grooves are formed parallel to a current flowing direction on a substrate surface on which the superconductor layer is formed and two-dimensional crystal defects are introduced in the superconductor layer on the nano grooves, and a method of manufacturing this superconducting film. A superconducting film of the invention, which is obtained at low cost and has very high Jc, is useful in applications such as cables, magnets, shields, current limiters, microwave devices, and semifinished products of these articles.

Superconducting film and method of manufacturing the same

A method for manufacturing a Pb-based Cu oxide superconductor. The method includes the steps of mixing powders of a raw material containing at least Pb, Sr, Ce, M, where M is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Yb, and Lu, and Cu in a proportion to have the composition of the formula (I),

Method of manufacturing an oxide superconductor

The present invention provides a layered copper oxide as an insulator for superconductor or as a superconductor, which has a chemical composition represented by the formula of (R,Ce).sub.3 Sr.sub.2 Cu.sub.2 (M,Cu)O.sub.11, wherein R is a rare earth element other than Ce and M is one or both of Pb and T1, and has a crystal structure comprising a (M,Cu)Sr.sub.2 (R,Ce)Cu.sub.2 O.sub.7 ; unit of a TlBa.sub.2 CaCu.sub.2 O.sub.7 (1-2-1-2)-type structure and a [(R,Ce)O.sub.2 ].sub.2 unit of a fluorite-type structure alternately put on each other, or a chemical composition represented by the formula of (R,Ce).sub.3 Sr.sub.2 Cu.sub.2 (M,Cu)O.sub.10+z, wherein R is a rare earth element other than Ce, M is one or both of Pb or Tl, and has a crystal structure comprising a (R,Ce)Sr.sub.2 Cu.sub.2 (Cu,M)O.sub.6+z unit of a YBa.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.3 O.sub.6+.delta. -type structure and a [(R,Ce)O.sub.2 ].sub.2 unit of a fluorite-type structure alternately put on each other, wherein z is in the range of 0.ltoreq.z.ltoreq.2 and .delta. is in the range of 0.ltoreq..delta..ltoreq.1.

Layered copper oxides (R.sub.(1+x) Ce.sub.(2-x))Sr.sub.2 Cu.sub.2

An oxide superconductor which has a composition expressed by the following general formula and whose crystal structure is 1222-phase structure.

Oxide superconductor having the formula Pb.sub.a (M.sub.1-x-y Ce.sub.x

The present invention provides an oxide superconductor which has a relatively high transition temperature T.sub.c. This superconductor has the chemical formula (R.sub.1-x Ca.sub.x)(Ba.sub.1-y Sr.sub.y).sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-z wherein R is at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of Tm, Yb and Lu, x is with in the range of 0.1.ltoreq..times.0.5, y is within the range of 0.1.ltoreq. y .ltoreq.0.4 and z is within the range of 0.05 .ltoreq. z .ltoreq.(x/2+0.5). The invention further provides a method for producing the oxide superconductor which comprises firing a composition of the formula (R.sub.1-x Ca.sub.x)(Ba.sub.1-y Sr.sub.y).sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-z wherein R is at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of Tm, Yb and Lu, x is within the range of 0.1 .ltoreq..times..ltoreq.0.5 and y is within the range of 0.1 .ltoreq.y .ltoreq.0.4 at a temperature of from 750.degree. C. to the melting temperature of the composition under an oxygen partial pressure P(O.sub.2) of 0.001 atm .ltoreq.P(O.sub.2) .ltoreq.0.2 atm and then heat treating the composition to adjust the oxygen loss z to 0.05 .ltoreq.z .ltoreq.(x/2+0.5).

Oxide superconductors and method for producing same

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