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SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/28/10/104006
Keywords
high-temperature superconductor; coated conductors; cables; AC loss; filaments; laser scribing
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Funding
- Helmholtz University Young Investigator Grant [VH-NG-617]
- EFDA [WP11-FRF-KIT/Vojenciak]
- European Union by means of the Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak republic in the project 'CENTE II', ITMS [26240120011]
- US Department of Energy [DE-SC0009545, DE-SC0007891]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0009545, DE-SC0007891] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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High temperature superconductors (HTSs), like for instance REBCO (RE = rare earth) coated conductors, are of high potential for building large superconducting magnets. Some magnets, such as accelerator magnets, require the use of superconducting cables to allow fast ramping, and low magnetization loss to mitigate field quality issues. One of the methods to lower ac loss is to divide the superconducting layer in the tape into filaments. In this paper, conductors with copper stabilization for practical applications are laser scribed into narrow filaments. Striated tapes are then wound into conductor on round core (CORC (R)) cables. The critical current and magnetization ac loss of single tapes were measured. We found that the stabilizing copper layer causes difficulties for laser scribing. The degradation of the critical current is more pronounced than in the case of non-stabilized tapes. The selection of the number of filaments is therefore a compromise between critical current degradation and reduction of ac loss. Based on the results obtained from single tape experiments, the optimum number of filaments in 4 mm wide tapes was chosen, and CORC (R) cables with 2, 3 and 4 layers of tapes with and without filaments were manufactured. Magnetization ac loss measurements at 77 K showed a reduction of ac loss in the cables with filaments. This reduction corresponds almost to the number of filaments. Measurement at different frequencies also showed that the coupling loss in CORC (R) cables with a short twist-pitch is relatively small in comparison to hysteretic loss.
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