YBCO applied magnetic field

Shown in fig. 16 is the magnetic field dependence of the critical current density for the IBAD and RABiTS based YBCO coated samples recently produced at LANL and ORNL, respectively. These coated samples operated in the liquid nitrogen temperature range clearly outperform the metallic superconductors (NbTi, NbjSn) at 4.2 K. Furthermore, even in the worst field direction H c), and for temperatures below 65 K, the short sample YBCO coated conductors operated in a 8-tesla background field have at least an order of magnitude higher Jc than pre-commercial BSCCO-2223 wire with no applied field. 

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