KIT | KIT-Bibliothek | Impressum | Datenschutz

Scanning laser imaging of dissipation in YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-δ}$ coated conductors

Ustinov, Alexey V.; Abraimov, Dmytro V.; Feldmann, David Matthew; Polyanskii, Anatolii A.; Gurevich, Alex; Larbalestier, David C.; Zhuravel, Alexander P.

Abstract:

We investigate dc-current flow in high-$j$$_{c}$ YBa$_{2}$Cu$_{3}$O$_{7-δ}$-coated conductors by low-temperature laser scanning microscopy (LTLSM) and correlate the LTLSM response to magneto-optical imaging (MOI) and grain boundary (GB) misorientation. Because the voltage response measured by LTLSM is associated with the local electric field, while MOI shows the local magnetic field, the combination of these two techniques unambiguously shows that the dominant sources of dissipation and easy flux flow occur at and near GBs. By correlating LTLSM images to grain misorientation maps determined by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), we can directly observe the overloading of current paths through low-angle GBs neighboring higher-angle GBs.


Download
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1063/1.1794377
Scopus
Zitationen: 27
Web of Science
Zitationen: 24
Dimensions
Zitationen: 26
Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Physikalisches Institut (PHI)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2004
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0003-6951, 1077-3118
KITopen-ID: 1000013597
Erschienen in Applied physics letters
Verlag American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Band 85
Heft 13
Seiten 2568-2570
Nachgewiesen in Web of Science
Dimensions
Scopus
KIT – Die Forschungsuniversität in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
KITopen Landing Page