High T/sub c/ insert coils for high field superconducting magnets-the Oxford programme

Author

Newson, M. ; Ryan, D.T. ; Wilson, M.N. ; Jones, H.

Author_Institution

Clarendon Lab., Oxford Univ., UK

Volume

10

Issue

1

fYear

2000

fDate

3/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

468

Lastpage

471

Abstract

We describe an industry/university collaboration to develop high temperature superconducting insert coils for use in the next generation of high-field research magnets. Using BSCCO-2212 dip-coat tape on thin silver substrate and a wind, react and tighten (WRAT) technique we have achieved extremely high engineering current densities in excess of 150 A/mm/sup 2/. We describe our latest results, discuss some of the problems with the WRAT method and briefly describe a project to build a high T/sub c/ SMES magnet.

Keywords

bismuth compounds; calcium compounds; critical current density (superconductivity); high-temperature superconductors; silver; strontium compounds; superconducting coils; superconducting magnet energy storage; superconducting magnets; superconducting tapes; Ag; BSCCO-2212 dip-coat tape; BiSrCaCuO; Oxford programme; SMES; WRAT technique; current densities; high field superconducting magnets; high temperature superconductors; insert coils; superconducting magnet energy storage; thin Ag substrate; wind-react-tighten technique; Atmosphere; Bismuth compounds; Current density; Heat treatment; High temperature superconductors; Powders; Silver; Superconducting coils; Superconducting films; Superconducting magnets;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.828273

Filename

828273