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Title: STANFORD IN-SITU HIGH RATE YBCO PROCESS: TRANSFER TO METAL TAPES AND PROCESS SCALE UP

Abstract

Executive Summary The materials science understanding of high rate low cost processes for Coated Conductor will benefit the application to power utilities for low loss energy transportation and power generation as well for DOD applications. The research in this program investigated several materials processing approaches that are new and original, and are not being investigated elsewhere. This work added to the understanding of the material science of high rate PVD growth of HTSC YBCO assisted by a liquid phase. A new process discovered uses amorphous glassy precursors which can be made at high rate under flexible conditions of temperature and oxygen, and later brought to conditions of oxygen partial pressure and temperature for rapid conversion to YBCO superconductor. Good critical current densities were found, but further effort is needed to optimize the vortex pinning using known artificial inclusions. A new discovery of the physics and materials science of vortex pinning in the HTSC system using Sm in place of Y came at growth at unusually low oxygen pressure resulting in clusters of a low or non superconducting phase within the nominal high temperature phase. The driving force for this during growth is new physics, perhaps due to the low oxygen.more » This has the potential for high current in large magnetic fields at low cost, applicable to motors, generators and transformers. The technical demands of this project were the motivation for the development of instrumentation that could be essential to eventual process scale up. These include atomic absorption based on tunable diode lasers for remote monitoring and control of evaporation sources (developed under DARPA support), and the utility of Fourier Transform Infrared Reflectivity (FTIR) for aid in the synthesis of complex thin film materials (purchased by a DURIP-AFOSR grant).« less

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Stanford University, Office of Sponsored Research, 320 Panama Street, Stanford,CA 94305-4100
Sponsoring Org.:
Electrical Delivery and Energy Reliability
OSTI Identifier:
951094
Report Number(s):
DOE/OE/14510
Stanford Sponsored Projects Office No. 27862; TRN: US201002%%1466
DOE Contract Number:  
FC07-03ID14510
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; ABSORPTION; CONTROL; CONVERSION; COST; CRITICAL CURRENT; CURRENTS; ENERGY; EVAPORATION; GROWTH; INCLUSIONS; LASERS; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATERIALS; METALS; MONITORING; MOTORS; OXYGEN; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; PHYSICS; POTENTIALS; POWER; POWER GENERATION; PROCESSING; REFLECTIVITY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE RANGE 0400-1000 K; THIN FILMS; TRANSFORMERS; Superconductor, YBCO, Coated Condiuctor, High Rate Process

Citation Formats

Beasley, Malcolm R, and Hammond, Robert H. STANFORD IN-SITU HIGH RATE YBCO PROCESS: TRANSFER TO METAL TAPES AND PROCESS SCALE UP. United States: N. p., 2009. Web. doi:10.2172/951094.
Beasley, Malcolm R, & Hammond, Robert H. STANFORD IN-SITU HIGH RATE YBCO PROCESS: TRANSFER TO METAL TAPES AND PROCESS SCALE UP. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/951094
Beasley, Malcolm R, and Hammond, Robert H. 2009. "STANFORD IN-SITU HIGH RATE YBCO PROCESS: TRANSFER TO METAL TAPES AND PROCESS SCALE UP". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/951094. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/951094.
@article{osti_951094,
title = {STANFORD IN-SITU HIGH RATE YBCO PROCESS: TRANSFER TO METAL TAPES AND PROCESS SCALE UP},
author = {Beasley, Malcolm R and Hammond, Robert H},
abstractNote = {Executive Summary The materials science understanding of high rate low cost processes for Coated Conductor will benefit the application to power utilities for low loss energy transportation and power generation as well for DOD applications. The research in this program investigated several materials processing approaches that are new and original, and are not being investigated elsewhere. This work added to the understanding of the material science of high rate PVD growth of HTSC YBCO assisted by a liquid phase. A new process discovered uses amorphous glassy precursors which can be made at high rate under flexible conditions of temperature and oxygen, and later brought to conditions of oxygen partial pressure and temperature for rapid conversion to YBCO superconductor. Good critical current densities were found, but further effort is needed to optimize the vortex pinning using known artificial inclusions. A new discovery of the physics and materials science of vortex pinning in the HTSC system using Sm in place of Y came at growth at unusually low oxygen pressure resulting in clusters of a low or non superconducting phase within the nominal high temperature phase. The driving force for this during growth is new physics, perhaps due to the low oxygen. This has the potential for high current in large magnetic fields at low cost, applicable to motors, generators and transformers. The technical demands of this project were the motivation for the development of instrumentation that could be essential to eventual process scale up. These include atomic absorption based on tunable diode lasers for remote monitoring and control of evaporation sources (developed under DARPA support), and the utility of Fourier Transform Infrared Reflectivity (FTIR) for aid in the synthesis of complex thin film materials (purchased by a DURIP-AFOSR grant).},
doi = {10.2172/951094},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/951094}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2009},
month = {Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2009}
}