Development of homogeneous and high-performance REBCO bulks with various shapes by the single-direction melt growth (SDMG) method
Takanori Motoki, Rempei Sasada, Takuma Tomihisa, Masaya Miwa, Shin Nakamura, Jun‐ichi Shimoyama
Abstract
Abstract We have developed a single-direction melt growth method in which REBCO melt-textured bulks grow only vertically from a seed plate utilizing the difference in peritectic temperatures of REBCO. Entirely c -grown YBCO, DyBCO and GdBCO bulks with various sizes and shapes were successfully fabricated with high reproducibility. Disk-shaped bulks showed high trapped fields with almost concentric field distributions, reflecting homogeneous and boundaryless bulk structures. In particular, a YBCO bulk with a 32 mm diameter trapped a high field more than 1 T at 77 K. Furthermore, rectangular and joined hexagonal REBCO bulks were successfully fabricated, showing designed field-trapping distributions reflecting their shapes through well-connected superconducting joints among bulks.