Investigation of Second Generation Superconductor Tapes to be used for Superconducting Electronics

Second Generation High Temperature Superconductor (2G-HTS) Tapes are currently fabricated by several companies around the world and used in large-scale applications such as magnets, generators and power cables. During the production of these tapes an emphasis is laid on optimizing the crystalline structure of the HTS layer, resulting in a quasi-monocrystalline layer and a tape with high critical current densities 10^6 A · cm−2 (77K and self-field). Due to the good crystalline qualities of these tapes it is interesting to investigate whether one can use these tapes as building blocks for superconducting electronics, which is the research objective of this thesis.