A superconductor wire having a first HTS layer with a first cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the first HTS layer and a second cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the first HTS layer. There is a first lamination layer affixed to the first cap layer and a stabilizer layer having a first surface affixed to the second cap layer. There is a second HTS layer and a third cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the second HTS layer and a fourth cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the second HTS layer. There is a second lamination layer affixed to the fourth cap layer. The second surface of the stabilizer layer is affixed to the third cap layer and there are first and second fillets disposed along a edge of the laminated superconductor.

A superconductor wire having a first HTS layer with a first cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the first HTS layer and a second cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the first HTS layer. There is a first lamination layer affixed to the first cap layer and a stabilizer layer having a first surface affixed to the second cap layer. There is a second HTS layer and a third cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the second HTS layer and a fourth cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the second HTS layer. There is a second lamination layer affixed to the fourth cap layer. The second surface of the stabilizer layer is affixed to the third cap layer and there are first and second fillets disposed along a edge of the laminated superconductor.

A method for manufacturing an HTS coated tape (34) includes providing a substrate tape (1), depositing a textured buffer layer (3) onto a front side (7) of the substrate tape, depositing an HTS layer (32) onto the front side, and depositing a functional layer (2) onto a bottom side (6) of the substrate tape. The functional layer exerts a mechanically deforming effect on the substrate tape opposing a mechanically deforming effect on the substrate tape exerted by the textured buffer layer deposited on the front. The functional layer is at least partially deposited before and/or during the depositing of the textured buffer layer. This permits an HTS coated tape, with which higher critical currents of the HTS layer are achieved, to be produced.

An oxide superconducting wire includes a superconducting layer formed disposed on a substrate. The superconducting layer includes a structure in which artificial pin rods having different lengths dispersed on a plane parallel to a substrate surface of the substrate. A degree of dispersion in length of the artificial pin rods in the plane parallel to the substrate surface is greater than or equal to 5 mm.

A superconductor wire having a first HTS layer with a first cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the first HTS layer and a second cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the first HTS layer. There is a first lamination layer affixed to the first cap layer and a stabilizer layer having a first surface affixed to the second cap layer. There is a second HTS layer and a third cap layer in direct contact with a first surface of the second HTS layer and a fourth cap layer in direct contact with a second surface of the second HTS layer. There is a second lamination layer affixed to the fourth cap layer. The second surface of the stabilizer layer is affixed to the third cap layer and there are first and second fillets disposed along a edge of the laminated superconductor.

Provided are a solar cell having a good conversion efficiency in which damage to a p-n junction structure is prevented when an antireflection film is removed, and a method of manufacturing such a solar cell.

A method for depositing a high temperature superconductor (=HTS) onto a tape (2), in particular by pulsed laser deposition (=PLD). The tape is wound off a source reservoir (3), heated and transported through a deposition zone (21), and wound up at a target reservoir (5). HTS material (32) is deposited onto the heated transported tape in the deposition zone, and the tape is led through the deposition zone by a guide structure (4). During deposition of the HTS material, the source reservoir, the guide structure and the target reservoir are rotated around a common rotation axis (9), such that parts of the tape rotating along with the guide structure repeatedly cross the deposition zone. This permits depositing a HTS onto a tape, in particular by PLD, which allows a high quality of the deposited HTS material for long tape lengths.

Provided is a superconducting wire. The superconducting wire comprises a substrate, a superconducting film on the substrate and a pinning center in the superconducting film. The superconducting film includes Y.sub.1-xRE.sub.xBCO and the pinning center has an additive of Ba.sub.2YNbO.sub.6.