The angular dependence of AC transport losses for a BSCCO/Ag tapes in DC applied field

In the application of high temperature superconductors, the superconducting tapes are often exposed to magnetic fields with different orientations. Thus AC losses in such cases depend not only on the magnitude of the external magnetic field, but also on its orientation with respect to the tape surface. In this paper, AC transport losses of a BSCCO/Ag tape were measured at 77 K in 48 mT, 80 mT and 120 mT DC magnetic fields, respectively. The angle between the direction of the magnetic field and the wide side of the tape varied from 0 to 90 degrees with a step of 10 degrees. Using the theoretical model we had proposed for the angular dependence of critical current, we developed a theoretical model to describe the angular dependence of AC transport losses by modifying Norris formula. The comparison between the theoretical values and the measured data were presented and discussed.