Enhanced Pinning Properties of Sm-Doped GdBCO CCs by the RCE-DR Process

We report the enhanced pinning properties of Sm-doped GdBa
₂
Cu
₃
O
_7-δ
(GdBCO) coated conductors (CCs) compared with those of GdBCO CCs by the reactive co-evaporation deposition and reaction process. For this paper, Sm-doped GdBCO CCs could be fabricated successfully using the same processing parameters with GdBCO CCs. While the GdBCO CCs exhibited higher critical temperature (T
_c
) and larger self-field critical current (I
_c
) at 77 K, Sm-doped GdBCO CCs possessed higher infield minimum critical current density (J
_c
) values in the field region of 1-5 T at 77 K most probably due to a refinement of (Gd,Sm)
₂
O
₃
nanoparticles trapped in the (Gd,Sm)BCO superconducting matrix.