Influence of film width and magnetic field orientation on AC loss in YBCO thin film

Three YBCO thin films on sapphire substrate with widths of 3, 5, and 10 mm were prepared, and their AC loss characteristics were studied experimentally. The total AC loss dissipated in samples carrying AC transport current in an AC transverse magnetic field was measured by an electromagnetic method. The total AC loss in YBCO film is proportional to the film width and the perpendicular magnetic field component, a component of the transverse magnetic field that is perpendicular to the film wide face. Reduction of the film width and/or the perpendicular magnetic field component is an essential means of decreasing the total AC loss. When plotting the total AC loss divided by film width against the perpendicular magnetic field component, curves for various film widths and field angles almost agree with each other. The total AC loss can be estimated by analytical expressions except in an intermediate range of the perpendicular magnetic field component. The experimental results indicate two engineering approaches for reducing the total AC loss in YBCO film: decreasing the film width and decreasing the perpendicular magnetic field component. Findings have shown empirically that decreasing the film width and decreasing sinα, where α is the field angle, are equivalently effective in reducing the total AC loss.

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