Abstract
To reduce ac loss in Y-Ba-Cu-O (YBCO) coated conductors while maintaining current sharing between filaments, an attempt was made to introduce an interfacial resistance between the YBCO filaments and a continuous silver cap layer. The YBCO filaments were produced via laser scribing of MOCVD YBCO films deposited on standard Ion Beam Assisted Deposition (IBAD) templates. After laser scribing, the filaments were exposed to air at room temperature to degrade the YBCO surface. A three micron thick silver cap layer was then and each sample was oxygen annealed at different temperature to produce
different interface resistance at the interface between the silver and YBCO. Measurements of the ac loss was measured as a function of applied perpendicular field and frequency revealed a correlation between the reduction in coupling loss and the oxygen annealing temperature.
