Comparative Study on the Profiles of Intra-Granular Critical Current Density in SmBCO and YBCO Coated Conductors

Abstract

We measured the magnetic hysteresis loops (M-H loop) of SmBCO coated conductor (CC) and YBCO-CC by using SQUID-magnetometer. These samples were fabricated by RABiTS method and IBAD method. We found the peak shifts of their M-B loops were qualitatively different. To understand this, we measured the magnetic field profiles, H(x), of SmBCO-CC and YBCO-CC by using scanning Hall probe method and calculated their current profiles, J(x). We found that the contrasting difference of M-B loops of the two types of CC was partly due to the inhomogeneous distributions of field and current, which depend on the sample shapes.