Development of 200 meter HoBCO coated conductors on Ni-alloy textured substrates

Ho1Ba2Cu3Ox (HoBCO) coated conductors on textured Ni-alloy substrates were developed by using Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD). Hetero-epitaxial growth of CeO2/YSZ/CeO2 was used to introduce in-plane alignment for buffer layers. CeO2 seed and cap layers were deposited by RF sputtering. YSZ diffusion layer was deposited by PLD. The most advantage of these buffer layers are high growth rate and large deposition area by using textured substrate. As for the HoBCO deposition, a production speed of 20 m/h with growth rate of 2-3 mu m per minute was demonstrated in our PLD process. By optimizing the deposition temperature, Ic and Jc of the short samples reached 265 A/cm-width and 5.6 MA/cm(2) at 77 K, 0 T, respectively. Long length HoBCO conductors over 200 m were performed by using reel to reel tape transfer system of each process.