“…The anisotropic behaviour of the nanocomposite films can be characterized by a field-independent anisotropy parameter γ eff when the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau (AGL) scaling behaviour of J c (,H) at fixed temperatures is studied. As proposed by Blatter et al 70 and applied to REBCO films 68,71,72 38,40,41,66,68 . The origin of this reduction in γ eff by the addition of nanoparticles has been associated to isotropic nanostrain and a novel depairing mechanism related to tensile strain fields in defects formed around the nanoparticles (especially in CSD-grown films) 37,38,74 .…”