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REBCO tapes for applications in ultra-high fields: critical current surface and scaling relations
Carmine Senatore, Marco Bonura and Tommaso Bagni

Superconductor science and technology 37 11, 115013 (2024)

REBa2Cu3O 7− x (REBCO) tapes produced by leading manufacturers were tested at UNIGE to characterize the dependence of the critical current on temperature, field intensity and orientation. This measurement campaign was carried out in the frame of international…

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Role of the coupling of the electronic transitions on the order of the metal-to-insulator phase transition in nickelates
Lucia Varbaro, Lukas Alexander Korosec, Chih-Ying Hsu, Duncan T.L. Alexander, Nicolas Jaouen and Jean-Marc Triscone

APL materials 12 8, 081120 (2024)

Rare-earth nickelates (chemical formula RNiO3, R being a rare-earth cation) display a temperature-dependent metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) together with a breathing distortion of the NiO6 octahedra units at a temperature ranging from 0 to 600 K depending on the size of…

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Nano-ARPES study of moiré systems and Td-MoTe2: from flat bands to electron-phonon coupling
Julia Issing

Thèse (2024)

Thinning a bulk material down to a few atomic layers or even to a monolayer influences its physical properties considerably. Such two-dimensional materials can also be used to engineer new correlated phases by stacking them on top of each other. In the present thesis, I present my work on twisted…

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High-Entropy Superconducting materials
Pablo Cayado Llosa and Jens Hänisch

High Entropy Alloys – Composition and Microstructure Design (2024)

High-entropy alloys are a rapidly evolving field of materials research and have gained increasing attention in recent years. Characterized by their multicomponent compositions, they were originally created by mixing a multitude of metallic elements and expanded the idea of traditional alloy design, …

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Evidence of Gd substitution for Y in YBCO films with Gd excess
P. Reale, V. Pinto, Pablo Cayado Llosa, G. Celentano, A. Angrisani Armenio, A. Rufoloni, A. Santoni and F. D’Acapito

Journal of alloys and compounds 983, 173921 (2024)

Gd-YBa2Cu3O7-δ (Gd-YBCO) thin films with 10 mol% and 20 mol% excess-Gd concentration with respect to Y were investigated at the Gd L3 and Y K core absorption edges by EXAFS spectroscopy with the aim of determining the local structure of the Gd…

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DSDApp: An Open-Access Tool for Definitive Screening Design
Ryoichiro Hayasaka, Jens Hänisch and Pablo Cayado Llosa

Journal of open research software 12 1, 2 (2024)

Definitive Screening Design (DSD) is a powerful design of experiment technique employed to find significant factors (parameters) and optimize the factor levels in many experiments of different fields. However, making its design and analyzing the obtained results usually requires expensive software…

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Anomalous electrons in a metallic kagome ferromagnet
Sandy Adhitia Ekahana, Y. Soh, Anna Tamai, Daniel Gosálbez-Martínez, Mengyu Yao, Andrew Scott Hunter, Wenhui Fan, Yihao Wang, Junbo Li, Armin Kleibert, C. A. F. Vaz, Junzhang Ma, Yimin Xiong, Oleg V. Yazyev, Felix Baumberger, Ming Shi and Gabriel Aeppli

Nature 627, 67-72 (2024)

Ordinary metals contain electron liquids within well-defined ‘Fermi’ surfaces at which the electrons behave as if they were non-interacting. In the absence of transitions to entirely new phases such as insulators or superconductors, interactions between electrons induce scattering that is…

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H-Induced local disorder in the structure of Ti2Ni-type Hf(Zr)4Fe2Ox compounds
I.Yu. Zavaliy, I.v. Koval'chuck, R.v. Denys, Radovan Cerny, V. Pecharsky and P. Zavalij

Journal of alloys and compounds 980, 173531 (2024)

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Phonon promoted charge density wave in topological kagome metal ScV6Sn6
Yong Hu, Junzhang Ma, Yinxiang Li, Yuxiao Jiang, Dariusz Jakub Gawryluk, Tianchen Hu, Jérémie Teyssier, Volodymyr Multian, Zhouyi Yin, Shuxiang Xu, Soohyeon Shin, Igor Plokhikh, Xinloong Han, Nicholas C. Plumb, Yang Liu, Jia-Xin Yin, Zurab Guguchia, Yue Zhao, Andreas P. Schnyder, Xianxin Wu, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, M. Zahid Hasan, Nanlin Wang and Ming Shi

Nature communications 15 1 (2024)

Charge density wave (CDW) orders in vanadium-based kagome metals have recently received tremendous attention, yet their origin remains a topic of debate. The discovery of ScV 6 Sn 6 , a bilayer kagome metal featuring an intriguing $$\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3}\times3$$ 3 × 3 × 3…

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Dual Second Harmonic Generation and Up-Conversion Photoluminescence Emission in Highly-Optimized LiNbO3 Nanocrystals Doped and Co-Doped with Er3+ and Yb3+
Kévin Bredillet, Florian Riporto, Tianhao Guo, Ameni Dhouib, Volodymyr Multian, Virginie Monnier, Paulí Figueras Llussà, Sandrine Beauquis, Luigi Bonacina, Yannick Mugnier and Ronan Le Dantec

Nanoscale (2024)

Preparation from the aqueous alkoxide route of doped and co-doped lithium niobate nanocrystals with Er 3+ and Yb 3+ ions, and detailed investigations of their optical properties are presented in this comprehensive…

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New Phases in the Sc−Mn−Si and Sc−Mn−Al−Si Systems Through Molten Indium Flux Synthesis
Robin Lefèvre, Félix Eder and Fabian von Rohr

Helvetica Chimica Acta 107 4, e202400018 (2024)

Through the application of synthesis via molten indium flux, we have been able to expand the ternary Sc−Mn−Si system and the quaternary Sc−Mn−Al−Si system. Specifically, we report on five previously unknown chemical compounds, namely β-ScMnSi2, Sc4+xMn4Si7–2x, Sc2Mn4Si5, Sc2Mn3Si4, and …

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Delusive chirality and periodic strain pattern in moiré systems
Arpad Pasztor, Ishita Pushkarna and Christoph Renner

2D materials 11 3, 035017 (2024)

Geometric phase analysis (GPA) is a widely used technique for extracting displacement and strain fields from scanning probe images. Here, we demonstrate that GPA should be implemented with caution when several fundamental lattices contribute to the image, in particular in twisted heterostructures…

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Atomic Scale Periodic Charge Modulations, Nematic Gap Variations, and Vortex Core Signatures as a function of Doping in Bi-2212
Tejas Parasram Singar

Thèse, 169 (2024)

High-temperature superconductors have been extensively studied over the past four decades. Much progress has been made in terms of understanding the basic fundamental mechanisms that lead to exceptionally high transition temperatures as compared to conventional superconductors. However, many…

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Planar deposition of Nb thin films by HiPIMS for superconducting radiofrequency applications
Carlota Pereira de Alemida Carlos, Stewart Leith, Guillaume Rosaz, Stephan Pfeiffer and Carmine Senatore

Vacuum 227, 113354 (2024)

Cost efficiency and sustainability are critical challenges for future accelerator machines. Nb-coated Cu (Nb/Cu) superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) accelerating cavities, while requiring R&D to meet high acceleration gradient performance standards, show potential for addressing these challenges….

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Investigating the effect of rolling deformation on the electro-mechanical limits of Nb3Sn wires produced by RRP® and PIT technologies
Tommaso Bagni, Ciro Calzolaio, Gianmarco Bovone, José Ferradas Troitino, Christian Barth, A. Ballarino and Carmine Senatore

Superconductor science and technology 37 9, 095013 (2024)

Future high-field magnets for particle accelerators hinge on the crucial development of advanced Nb3Sn wires engineered to withstand the large stresses generated during magnet assembly and operation. The superconducting properties of Nb3Sn enable the design of compact…

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Thickness effect on superconducting properties of niobium films for radio-frequency cavity applications
Antonio Bianchi, Marco Bonura, Carlota Pereira de Alemida Carlos, Stewart Leith, Guillaume Rosaz, Carmine Senatore and Walter Venturini Delsolaro

Superconductor science and technology 37 8, 085005 (2024)

Niobium-coated copper radio-frequency cavities are cost-effective alternatives to bulk niobium cavities, given the lower material costs of copper substrates and their operation in liquid helium at around 4.2 K. However, these cavities historically exhibited a gradual degradation in performance…

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Signatures of polarized chiral spin disproportionation in rare earth nickelates
Jiarui Li, Robert J. Green, Claribel Dominguez Ordonez, Abraham Levitan, Yi Tseng, Sara Catalano, Jennifer Fowlie, Ronny Sutarto, Fanny Rodolakis, Lucas Korol, Jessica L. McChesney, John W. Freeland, Dirk Van Der Marel, Marta Gibert and Riccardo Comin

Nature communications 15 1, 7427 (2024)

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Conversion of angular momentum into charge at picosecond timescales in the LaAlO3 / SrTiO3 interface
Anas El Hamdi, Artem Levchuk, Cosimo Gorini, Margherita Boselli, Vincent Juvé, Tadele Orbula Otomalo, Gwenaëlle Vaudel, Stefano Gariglio, Pascal Ruello, Jean-Yves Chauleau and Michel Viret

Physical review. B 110 5, 054412 (2024)

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Electron-Beam Writing of Atomic-Scale Reconstructions at Oxide Interfaces
Greta Segantini, Chih-Ying Hsu, Willem Rischau, Patrick Blah, Mattias Matthiesen, Stefano Gariglio, Jean-Marc Triscone, Duncan T L Alexander and Andrea Caviglia

Nano letters, acs.nanolett.4c02913 (2024)

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Exploring Ferroelectric Domain-Wall Dynamics through Power-Law Distributions via Scanning Probe Microscopy
Ralph Adam Yap Bulanadi

Thèse, 222 (2024)

We here leverage scanning probe microscopy, sensitive to both structural and functional properties of ferroelectric domains, in order to change, measure, and characterise the variety of transitions (and transition-like behaviours in the highly nonlinear dynamics accompanying polarisation reversal…

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Feedback loop dependent charge density wave imaging by scanning tunneling spectroscopy
Alessandro Scarfato, Arpad Pasztor, Lihuan Sun, Ivan Maggio-Aprile, Vincent Pasquier, Tejas Parasram Singar, Andreas Ørsted, Ishita Pushkarna, Marcello Spera, Enrico Giannini and Christoph Renner

Physical review. B 110 8, 085109 (2024)

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Magnets for a Muon Collider—Needs and Plans
L. Bottura, C. Accettura, N. Amemiya, B. Auchmann, J.s. Berg, A. Bersani, A. Bertarelli, F. Boattini, B. Bordini, P. Borges de Sousa, M. Breschi, B. Caiffi, X. Chaud, F. Debray, A. Dudarev, M. Eisterer, S. Fabbri, S. Farinon, P. Ferracin, H. De Gersem, A. Kario, A. Kolehmainen, J. Kosse, J. Lorenzo Gomez, R. Losito, S. Mariotto, M. Mentink, T. Mulder, R. Musenich, D. Novelli, T. Ogitsu, M. Palmer, J. Pavan, H. Piekarz, A. Portone, L. Quettier, E. Rochepault, L. Rossi, T. Salmi, H. Schneider-Muntau, Carmine Senatore, M. Statera, H.h.j. Ten Kate, P. Testoni, G. Vallone, A. Verweij, R. Van Weelderen, M. Wozniak, A. Yamamoto, Y. Yang, Y. Zhai and A. Zlobin

IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity 34 5 (2024)

We describe the magnet challenges for a Muon Collider, an exciting option considered for the future of particle physics at the energy frontier. Starting from the comprehensive work performed by the US Muon Accelerator Program, we have reviewed the performance specifications dictated by beam physics …

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Gap collapse and flat band induced by uniaxial strain in 1T − TaS2
C. W. Nicholson, F. Petocchi, B. Salzmann, Catherine Witteveen, M. Rumo, G. Kremer, O. Ivashko, Fabian von Rohr, P. Werner and C. Monney

Physical review. B 109 3, 035167 (2024)

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Controlling crystal cleavage in Focused Ion Beam shaped specimens for surface spectroscopy
Andrew Scott Hunter, C. Putzke, Iaroslav Gaponenko, Anna Tamai, Felix Baumberger and P. J. W. Moll

Review of scientific instruments 95, 033905 (2024)

Our understanding of quantum materials is commonly based on precise determinations of their electronic spectrum by spectroscopic means, most notably angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Both require atomically clean and flat crystal surfaces…

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Conceptual design of an HTS Canted Cosine Theta dipole magnet for research and hadron therapy accelerators
E. De Matteis, A. Ballarino, D. Barna, A. Carloni, A. Echeandia, G. Kirby, T. Lecrevisse, J. Lucas, S. Mariotto, J. van Nugteren, M. Prioli, L. Rossi, Carmine Senatore, M. Sorbi, S. Sorti, M. Statera, F. Toral and R.u. Valente

IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity 34 5, 4402505 (2024)

The European project IFAST’s WP8 Innovative Superconducting Magnets aims to develop the technology of Canted Cosine Theta (CCT) magnets wound with High-Temperature Superconductors (HTS). Superconducting magnets could lower the size and cost of synchrotrons and gantries for research and hadron…

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Influence of the heat treatment on the layer JC of internal-Sn Nb3Sn wires with internally oxidized nanoparticles
Francesco Lonardo, Gianmarco Bovone, Florin Buta, Marco Bonura, Tommaso Bagni, B. Medina-Clavijo, A. Ballarino, S. C. Hopkins, T. Boutboul and Carmine Senatore

IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity 34 5, 6000305 (2024)

We evaluated various heat treatments (HT) for maximizing the Nb 3 Sn layer thickness while retaining a refined grain microstructure in low filament count internal-Sn Nb 3 Sn Rod-In-Tube wires with internally oxidized nanoparticles. These wires were manufactured in our…

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Observation of naturally canalized phonon polaritons in LiV2O5 thin layers
Ana I. F. Tresguerres-Mata, Christian Lanza, Javier Taboada Gutierrez, Joseph. R. Matson, Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Masahiko Isobe, Aitana Tarazaga Martín-Luengo, Jiahua Duan, Stefan Partel, María Vélez, Javier Martín-Sánchez, Alexey Y. Nikitin, Joshua D. Caldwell and Pablo Alonso-González

Nature communications 15 1, 2696 (2024)

Polariton canalization is characterized by intrinsic collimation of energy flow along a single crystalline axis. This optical phenomenon has been experimentally demonstrated at the nanoscale by stacking and twisting van der Waals (vdW) layers of α-MoO3, by combining α-MoO3

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Switchable tribology of ferroelectrics
Seongwoo Cho, Iaroslav Gaponenko, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Jordi Barceló-Mercader, Irene Arias, Daeho Kim, Céline Lichtensteiger, Jiwon Yeom, Loïc Musy, Hyunji Kim, Seung Min Han, Gustau Catalan, Patrycja Paruch and Seungbum Hong

Nature communications 15 387 (2024)

Switchable tribological properties of ferroelectrics offer an alternative route to visualize and control ferroelectric domains. Here, we observe the switchable friction and wear behavior of ferroelectrics using a nanoscale scanning probe—down domains have lower friction coefficients and show…

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Loss of memory of an elastic line on its way to limit cycles
Elisabeth Agoritsas and Jonathan Barés

Physical review. E 109 4, L042901 (2024)

Oscillatory-driven amorphous materials forget their initial configuration and converge to limit cycles. Here we investigate this memory loss under a nonquasistatic drive in a minimal model system, with quenched disorder and memory encoded in a spatial pattern, where oscillating protocols are…

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Type-II superconductivity in the Dirac semimetal PdTe2
Ritu Gupta, Catherine Witteveen, Debarchan Das, Fabian von Rohr and Rustem Khasanov

Physical review. B 109 13, 134507 (2024)

We report on the microscopic superconducting properties of the Dirac semimetal PdTe2. In this study, we have focused on mosaic crystals of PdTe2, and used detailed zero-field and transverse-field muon-spin relaxation/rotation (μSR), ac-magnetic susceptibility, and resistivity measurements to…

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Anomalous temperature dependence of phonon lifetimes in metallic VO2
Willem Rischau, Artem Korshunov, Volodymyr Multian, Sara Almudena Lopez Paz, Chubin Huang, Lucia Varbaro, Jérémie Teyssier, Yoav Kalcheim, Stefano Gariglio, Alexei Bosak, Jean-Marc Triscone and Javier del Valle

Physical review. B, Condensed matter 109, 094122 (2024)

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Controlling the Magnetic Properties of the van der Waals Multiferroic Crystals Co1–xNixI2
Anastasiia Lukovkina, Sara Almudena Lopez Paz, Céline Besnard, Laure Guenee, Fabian von Rohr and Enrico Giannini

Chemistry of materials 36 12, 6237-6245 (2024)

The structurally related compounds NiI2 and CoI2 are multiferroic van der Waals materials in which helimagnetic orders exist simultaneously with electric polarization. Here, we report on the evolution of the crystal structure and of the magnetic properties across solid…

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Highly confined epsilon-near-zero and surface phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes
Ruijuan Xu, Iris Crassee, Hans A. Bechtel, Yixi Zhou, Adrien Bercher, Lukas Alexander Korosec, Willem Rischau, Jérémie Teyssier, Kevin J. Crust, Yonghun Lee, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Jiarui Li, Jennifer A. Dionne, Harold Y. Hwang, Alexey Kuzmenko and Yin Liu

Nature communications 15 1, 4743 (2024)

Recent theoretical studies have suggested that transition metal perovskite oxide membranes can enable surface phonon polaritons in the infrared range with low loss and much stronger subwavelength confinement than bulk crystals. Such modes, however, have not been experimentally observed so far….

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Resistive switching of VO2 films grown on a thermal insulator
Willem Rischau, Stefano Gariglio, Jean-Marc Triscone and Javier del Valle

Physical review applied 22 1, 014021 (2024)

Many correlated oxides feature an insulator-to-metal transition as the temperature is increased. In thin films, this transition can be electrically induced by localized Joule heating, resulting in volatile resistive switching. Considering the importance of thermal effects, the thermal conductivity…

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Stability and Voltage Frequency Dynamics of Large-Scale Electric Power Grids
Julian Fritzsch

Thèse (2024)

The energy sector is the largest contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, to effectively combat climate change, conventional fossil-fueled power generation is being replaced by power generation from renewable energy sources, such as solar panels or wind farms. This energy…

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Structural study of nickelate based heterostructures
Lucia Varbaro, Bernat Mundet Bolos, Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay, Claribel Dominguez Ordonez, Jennifer Fowlie, Lukas Alexander Korosec, Chih-Ying Hsu, Duncan T. L. Alexander, Philippe Ghosez and Jean-Marc Triscone

APL materials 12 3, 031104 (2024)

Heterostructures consisting of SmNiO3 and NdNiO3 alternating layers with additional LaAlO3 spacer layers were grown and fully characterized by means of x-ray diffraction, atomic force microscopy, and scanning transmission electron microscopy. A change in the orientation of the orthorhombic…

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The effects of correlated disorder on static and dynamical properties of matter
Amirreza Hemmatzade

Thèse (2024)

Frustration can lead to a disordered ground state with a macroscopic degeneracy. A structural and/or magnetic ice system is one in which this frustration can be described by simple local rules describing the configuration of a tetrahedron – the so-called ice rule. In the case of water-ice this rule …

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Topological valley plasmons in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene moiré superlattices
Weiwei Luo, Jiang Fan, Alexey Kuzmenko, Wei Cai and Jingjun Xu

Physical review. B 110 3, 035408 (2024)

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X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy to investigate precipitated oxides in Nb 3 Sn wires with an internal oxygen source
Gianmarco Bovone, Florin Buta, Francesco Lonardo, Marco Bonura, C. N. Borca, T. Huthwelker, S.c. Hopkins, A. Ballarino, T. Boutboul and Carmine Senatore

IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity 34 3, 6000205 (2024)

Internal oxidation can achieve significantly enhanced Jc in Nb 3 Sn wires, but the mechanism of oxygen transport and oxide precipitation is not fully understood. Our investigation employs X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure (XANES) spectroscopy, revealing insights into the…

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Estimation of Physical and Electrical Properties of Various REBCO Tapes for Construction of Very-High-Field REBCO Magnet
Jung-Bin Song, Xavier Chaud, François Debray, Kévin Paillot, Philippe Fazilleau, Thibault Lécrevisse, Thomas Herrmannsdörfer, Carmine Senatore, Marc Dhallé and Anis Smara

IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity 34 5 (2024)

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Critical current degradation of commercial REBCO coated conductors under thermomechanical loads
Celia Lucas Esparseil, Pablo Cayado Llosa, Hannes Rijckaert, Konstantina Konstantopoulou, Davide Nardelli and Carmine Senatore

Superconductor science and technology 37 12, 125014 (2024)

The process to obtain a superconducting joint between Coated Conductors (CCs) involves the simultaneous application of temperature and transverse compressive pressure to promote the joining of the two adjacent RE BCO layers. We performed experiments to simulate this procedure by subjecting samples…

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