Processing of High Temperature Superconductors

Amit Goyal is the Director of the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary RENEW (Research & Education in Energy, Environment & Water) Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. He is also Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo.Previously he was a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow, a Battelle Distinguished Inventor and an ORNL Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee. He was also the Chair of the UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council.Goyal is one of the leading scientists worldwide in the field of advanced electronic and energy materials including High Temperature Superconductors. He has over 85 issued patents. He also has over 350 publications. In 2009, an analysis of citations and papers published worldwide in the last decade in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, between 1999–2009, conducted by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ranked him as the most cited author worldwide during those years. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors.

• Second Generation Wires. Surface-Oxidation Epitaxy Method for Critical Current Control of YBa2Cu3O7-δ Coated Conductors (K. Matsumoto, I. Hirabayshi, and K. Osamura) Control of the Sulfur C (2 x 2) Superstructure on {100}<100> Textured Metals for RABiTS Applications (C. Cantoni, D. K. Christen, L. Heatherly, F. A. List, A. Goyal, G. W. Ownby, and D. M. Zehner). Inclined Substrate Deposition of Magnesium Oxide for YBCO-Coated Conductors (B. Ma, M. Li, B. L. Fisher, R. E. Koritala, S. E. Dorris, V. A. Maroni, and U. Balachandran) Ion-beam-Assisted Deposition of Magnesium Oxide Films for Coated Conductors (T. P. Weber, B. Ma, U. Balachandran, and M. McNallan) Scaling-up High-Tc Tapes by MOCVD, Spray Pyrolysis, and MOD Processes (S. Beauquis, S. Donet, and F. Weiss).Towards an all Chemical Solution Coated Conductor (O. Castaño, A. Cavallaro, A. Palau, J. C. González, M. Rossell, T. Puig, F. Sandiumenge, N. Mesters, S. Piñol, and X. Obradors) An Economical Route for Production of High-Quality YSZ Buffer Layers using the ECONOTM Process (M. A. Zurbuchen, S. Sambasivan, S. Barnett, B. F. Kang, A. Goyal, P. A. Barnes, and C. E. Oberly). Latest Developments in Using Combustion Chemical Vapor Deposition to Fabricate Coated Conductors (A. C. King, S. S. Shoup, M. K. White, S. L. Krebs, D. S. Mattox, T. A. Polley, and N. Darnell). Growth of YBCO Thick Films on Nd2CuO4 Buffered Substrates (X. Qi, Z. Lockman, M. Soorie, Y. Bugoslavsky, D. Caplin, and J. L. MacManus-Driscoll). Microstructural Characterization of High Jc, YBCO Thick Films Grown at very High Rates and High Temperatures by PLD (A. Berenov, N. Malde, Y. Bugoslavsky, L. F. Cohen, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, and S. J. Foltyn). Development of Coated Conductors of Biaxially Textured Substrates: The Influence of Substrate Parameters (R. I. Tomov, A. Kursumovic, M. Majoros, R. Hühne, B. A. Glowacki, J. E. Evetts, A. Tuissi, E. Villa, S. Tönies, Y. Sun, A. Vostner, and H. W. Weber). YBa2Cu3O O7-δ Films Through a Flourine Free TMAP MOD Approach (Y. Xu, D. Shi, A. Goyal, M. Paranthaman, N.A. Rutter, P. Martin, and D. Kroeger). Inclined Substrate Pulsed Laser Deposition of YBCO Thin Films on Polycrystalline Ag Substrates (M. Li, B. Ma, R. E. Koritala, B. L. Fisher, S. E. Dorris, K. Venkataraman, and U. Balachandran). The Growth Modes and Transport Properties of YBaCuO Prepared by Batch and Continuous Liquid Phase Epitaxy (A. Kursumovic, Y. S. Cheng, R. I. Tomov, R. Hühne, B. A. Glowacki, and J. E. Evetts). Effect of Transverse Compressive Stress on Transport Critical Current Density of Y-Ba-Cu-O Coated Ni and Ni-W RABiTS Tapes (N. Cheggour, J. W. Ekin, C.C. Clickner, R. Feenstra, A. Goyal, M. Paranthaman, and N. Rutter). Phase and Microstructure Change of High Critical Current Density TFA-MOD YBCO Coated Conductor (Y. Yamada, T. Araki, H. Kurosaki, T. Yuasa, Y. Shiohara, I. Hirabayshi, J. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, Y. Iijima, T. Saito, T. Katoh, and T. Hirayama). Growth Kinetics and Texture of SOE NiO/Ni and Ni-Based Alloys RABiTS (Z. Lockman, X. Qi, W. Goldacker, R. Nast, B. deBoer, A. Kursumovic, R. Tomov, R. Hühne, J. E. Evetts, B. A. Glowacki, and J. L. MacManus-Driscoll). Ion Texturing of Amorphous Yttria-Stabilized-Zirconia to form a Template for YBa2Cu3O7 Deposition (P. Berdahl, J. Liu, R. P. Reade, and R.E. Russo). YBCO/YSZ/Hastelloy Superconducting Tapes by IBAD Magnetron Deposition (S. Gnanarajan and N. Savvides).Residual Stress Measurement in YBCO Thin Films (J. H. Cheon and J. P. Singh).Growth Kinetics and Texture of (Nd,Ce) 2CuO4/NiO Buffers on Ni-Based RABiTS (Z. Lockman, X. Qi, J. L. Manus-Driscoll, W. Goldacker, R. Nast, B. deBoer, A. Kursumovic, R. Tomov, R. Hühne, J.E. Evetts, B.A. Glowacki, and R. Major).Ca-Doping of YBCO Thin Films (A. Berenov, J. L. Manus-Driscoll, D. MacPhail, and S. Foltyn).Demonstration of High Current Density YBCO Films on all Solution Buffers (M. Parans Paranthaman, S. Sathyamurthy, H.Y. Zhai, H.M. Christen, S. Kang, and A. Goyal). Bulk Processing. Processing and Properties of Melt Processed Y-Ba-Cu-O Containing Depleted Uranium Oxide (D. A. Cardwell, N. Hari Babu, M. Kambara, C. D. Tarrant and K. R. Schneider). Application of RE123-Bulk Superconductors as a Permanent Magnet in Magnetron Sputtering Film Deposition Parameters (U. Mizutani, T. Matsuda, Y. Yanagi, Y. Itoh, H. Ikuta, and T. Oka). Tailoring Dislocation Substructures for High Critical Current Melt-Textured YBa2Cu3O7 (F. Sandiumenge, X. Obradors, T. Puig, J. Rabier, and J. Plain). Flux-Pinning and Properties of Solid-Solution (Y,Nd)1+xBa2-xCu3O7-δ Superconductors (T. J. Haugan, M. E. Fowler, J. C. Tolliver, P. N. Barnes, W. Wong-Ng, and L. P. Cook).Studies of Grain Boundaries in Melt Textured YBa2Cu3Ox (B. W. Veal, H. Claus, L. Chen, and A. P. Paulikas).High-Tc Bulk-Superconductor-Based Membrane-Magnetic Separation for Water Purification (N. Saho, T. Mizumori, N. Nishijima, M. Murakami, and M. Tomita).Bulk Superconducting Function Elements for Electric Motors and Levitation (T. Habisreuther, D. Litzkendorf, R. Muller, M. Ziesberger, S. Kracunovska, W. Gawalek, O. Surzhenko, J. Bierlich, and T. A. Prikhna).Processing and Pproperties of Gd-Ba-Cu-O Bulk Superconductor with High Trapped Magnetic Field (S. Nariki, N. Sakai, and M. Murakami).Synthesis and Sintering of MgB2 under High Pressure (T. A. Prikhna, Y. M. Savchuk, N. V. Sergienko, V. E. Moshchil, S. N. Dub, P. A. Nagorny, W. Gawalek, T. Habisreuther, M. Wendt, A. B., Surzhenko, D. Litzkendorf, C. Schmidt, J. Dellith, and V. S. Melnikov).Adhesive Coated HTS Wire and other Innovative Materials (A. Rokhvarger and L. Chigirinsky).Melting Equilibria of the BaF2-CuOx System (W. Wong-Ng, L. P. Cook, and J. Suh).