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A strategy is presented by which a tape-stack REBCO cable may be configured in a conformal winding in such a way that all tape faces are ~parallel to B thorughout the winding, yielding ~3x more current performance than is possible in…
A high-field winding can be fabricated from a cable of non-insulated REBCO tapes, stacked face-face without twisting. If the cable is oriented within each turn of a winding so that the tape face is closely parallel to the magnetic field at…
Unlike low temperature superconducting cables, there is so far no perfect solution for REBCO coated conductors to form a fully transposed high current cable. Every REBCO cable concept must import a stack of tapes to achieve an operating…
High-field superconducting magnets with a dipole field of 16 T and above enable future energy-frontier circular particle colliders. Although we believe these magnets can be built, none exists today. They can also be a showstopper for future…
Rare-earth-barium-copper-oxide (REBCO) tapes are now available from several industrial manufacturers and are very promising conductors in high field applications. Due to diverging materials and deposition processes, these manufacturers'…
A compact HTS cable that is able to carry large current density is crucial for developing high field accelerator magnets. We are reporting a novel HTS cable (named X-cable) that could achieve a high current density as the Roebel cable, but…
We present a concept of the rapid-cycling 1.7 T ReBCO magnet for 1 to 10 kT/s ramping range as required for muon acceleration in a future muon collider presently under study. This approach is based on the 6 kA CORC-like cable constructed…
High temperature REBCO superconducting tapes are very promising for high-field magnets. Under high magnetic fields there are high electro-mechanical forces, and thus concern for mechanical damage. Due to large screening currents and…
This work provides an optimization mechanism to ensure the compatibility of ReBCO (Rare-earth Barium Copper Oxide) high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes with non-planar stellarator coils. ReBCO coils enable higher field strengths and…
High temperature superconducting motors are very promising for hydrogen-electric aircraft thanks to their high specific power, specific torque, and efficiency. High temperature superconductor REBCO offer high cryogenic flexibility, but a…
One kind of highly flexible REBCO cable (HFRC) has been proposed recent years, which contains REBCO superconducting tapes wound onto a spiral tube. Under external loads, spiral tube is prone to complex deformation, leading to unpredictable…
Development of REBCO cables that carry high electrical current in high magnetic field is crucial for future large-scale magnet applications. This experimental work presents the critical current measurements of two different REBCO cables by…
High temperature superconductor (HTS) (RE)Ba2Cu3Ox (REBCO) conductor on round core cable (CORC) has high current carrying capacity for high field magnet and power applications. In REBCO CORC cables, current redistribution occurs among tapes…
Many superconducting power applications contain REBCO coils. Superconducting motors are very interesting for mobile applications like aviation, thanks to their high power per unit weight. In order to reduce the inductance, multi-tape…
REBCO coated conductor is a high temperature superconductor that has a wide range of applications, one of which is the current leads of magnet systems. In the design of current leads, it is crucial to minimize their thermal conduction while…
REBCO coated conductor has great potential to be used in ultra-high field magnets. Commercial REBCO tapes are strong in the longitudinal direction but prone to delamination by tensile stress in the thickness direction. For high field magnet…
The applications of superconducting cable or magnet require that the superconductors are made into wires or tapes. For cuprate superconductors, this is a big challenge because of the strong flux motion induced by high anisotropy, very short…
There are numerous potential applications for superconducting tapes, based on YBa2Cu3O7-x (YBCO) films coated onto metallic substrates. A long established goal of more than 15 years has been to understand the magnetic flux pinning…
No-insulation (NI) REBCO magnets have many advantages. They are self-protecting, therefore do not need quench detection and protection which can be very challenging in a high Tc superconducting magnet. Moreover, by removing insulation and…
Critical current (Ic) of REBCO tapes is strongly aniso-tropic with respect to the orientation of the magnetic field. Usually, Ic is at maximum when the ab-plane of the REBCO crystal is parallel to the magnetic field. In commercial REBCO…