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Long length high temperature superconducting wires with uniform ion implanted pinning microstructures

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1568121

A method for producing a long length high temperature superconductor wire, includes providing a substrate, having a surface with a length of at least 50 meters and a width. The surface supports a biaxially textured high temperature superconducting layer and the biaxially textured high temperature superconducting layer has a length and a width corresponding to the length and width of the surface of the substrate. The method includes irradiating the biaxially textured high temperature superconductor layer with an ion beam impinging uniformly along the length and across the width of the biaxially textured high temperature superconductor layer to produce a uniform distribution of pinning microstructures in the biaxially textured high temperature superconductor layer.

Research Organization:
American Superconductor Corp., Devens, MA (United States); Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC, Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
DOE Contract Number:
AR0000190; SC0012704
Assignee:
American Superconductor Corporation (Ayer, MA); Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC (Upton, NY)
Patent Number(s):
10,242,770
Application Number:
15/246,739
OSTI ID:
1568121
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English