“…Superconducting fault current limiters (SFCL) based on high temperature superconductors (HTSC) of different types, inductive, resistive or hybrid, have being extendedly studied (Noe & Steurer, 2007;Sokolovsky et al, 2004;Paul et al, 2001) and tested in power plants (Paul et al, 1997;Leung et al, 1997;Zueger et al, 1998). Inductive SFCL, intended to operate at very high powers, are in general based on bulk HTSC whereas resistive or hybrid types are based on both bulk (mainly in the shape of bars) and thin films grown on different types of substrates and mainly patterned in meandered paths.…”