title: Toward Superconducting Critical Current by Design.
abstract: A new critical-current-by-design paradigm is presented. It aims at predicting the optimal defect landscape in superconductors for targeted applications by elucidating the vortex dynamics responsible for the bulk critical current. To this end, critical current measurements on commercial high-temperature superconductors are combined with large-scale time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations of vortex dynamics.
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Ivan A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Sadovskyy
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leroux
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Jihwan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.affiliation: Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Hefei
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.|Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chaparro
authors.affiliation: Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Shaofei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Welp
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.|Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
authors.forename: Jian-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Zuo
authors.affiliation: SuperPower Corp, Schenectady, NY, 12304, USA.
authors.forename: Yifei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: SuperPower Corp, Schenectady, NY, 12304, USA.
authors.forename: Ryusuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nakasaki
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.
authors.forename: Venkat
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Selvamanickam
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.|Departments of Physics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.
authors.forename: George W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Crabtree
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Alexei E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Koshelev
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.|Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 60115, USA.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Glatz
authors.affiliation: Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA.
authors.forename: Wai-Kwong
authors.initials: WK
authors.lastname: Kwok
keywords: critical current by design; high-temperature superconductors; time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau; vortex dynamics