High field superconducting tape magnet technology

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States)

OSTI ID:5294282

Rosner, C H; Markiewicz, W D ^[1]

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1. Intermagnetics General Corp., Guilderland, NY (United States)

The emergency and growth of high-field superconductivity since the 1960's was greatly enhanced by demonstrations in many 10 - 17 T magnets, that Niobium-Tin (Nb{sub 3}Sn) could be used most reliably in magnets utilizing Nb{sub 3}Sn in a flexible tape type superconductor form. It was always recognized that if Nb{sub 3}Sn were readily available in wire or cable form, that might allow design and fabrication of Nb{sub 3}Sn magnets exhibiting better overall performance, more readily available and comparable to lower field Niobium-Titanium (Nb-Ti) magnets. The discovery of high temperature superconductors (HTS) and resulting efforts to successfully use the newer ceramic oxide materials, such as Bismuth, Yttrium or Thallium based materials, confirms again that, at least in these early developmental stages, fabrication of tape type superconductor configurations are more readily usable towards eventual achievement of more reliable performing high-field magnets. Hence, this paper reviews and discusses methods of magnet design and materials configuration approaches that were found to be most suitable for high current density Nb{sub 3}Sn high-field tape type magnets.

• OSTI ID: 5294282
• Report Number(s): CONF-910662--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); (United States) Journal Volume: 28:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
ALLOYS
CHALCOGENIDES
DESIGN
ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES
ELECTROMAGNETS
EQUIPMENT
FABRICATION
HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICES
MAGNETIC TAPES
MAGNETS
MATERIALS TESTING
MEMORY DEVICES
NIOBIUM ALLOYS
NIOBIUM BASE ALLOYS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
RELIABILITY
SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES
SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
SUPERCONDUCTORS
TESTING
TIN ALLOYS