THE MAGNETIC AND TRANSPORT-PROPERTIES OF HIGH-CRITICAL-CURRENT TL2BA2CA2CU3OX SUPERCONDUCTING THIN-FILMS

Abstract

Highly c-axis-oriented Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O(x) superconducting thin films with the critical current density as high as 1 X 10(7) A/cm2 at 87 K were obtained by single-target dc sputtering on LaAlO3 (100) substrates followed by encapsulated compensate annealing. The strong linear temperature dependence of zero-field critical current at low temperatures suggests a creep-dominated behavior. Preliminary field dependence studies on the critical current density in low-field regime (< 2 kOe) shows no evidence of hysteresis commonly encountered in films with higher granularity. The scaling behavior of the global pinning force density exhibits strong resemblance to conventional type-II superconductors with the pinning force density of the same order of magnitude as that in strong pinned NbN thin films.