Even if a void portion having a width of 1 μm may be realized by the ablation and a non-superconducting region may be formed, the sum of the width of the decomposition oxide layer adjacent to the void portion and the width of the region where the number of oxygen changes to become non-superconducting is wider than 40 μm wide on one side of the void portion. The non-superconducting region on one side of the void portion may be 60 μm wide. Therefore, even if the void portion is narrowed from 20 μm width, each of the non-superconducting regions having a width of 40 μm on both sides of the void portion becomes wider, so the total width of the non-superconducting regions by the laser scribing method does not become 80 μm or less.
The structure formed by the above laser scribing method has problems other than the problem that the width of the non-superconducting region cannot be narrowed.
In the ablation by the laser scribing method, the decomposition oxide layer such as CuO or Y2O3 is formed around the void portion. These differ in the coefficient of thermal expansion from the YBCO oxide, and when cooled to the liquid nitrogen temperature or lower in superconducting coil applications, the peeling from the YBCO oxide is likely to occur due to the difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion.
In the first place, the above CuO or Y2O3 is generated by the decomposition from the YBCO, and there is no lattice coupling with the YBCO, and the peeling is likely to occur. As of July 2020, there have been no reports of achievement cases in which a 500 m long wire is thinned by the laser scribing method and applied to large-scale applied products and continuously operated for a long period of time, for example, 3 years or more. The above unsettled problems are believed to be relevant.