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HTS has the potential of a game changer for many applications of superconductivity, not last in the field of particle accelerators and detectors. This paper explores the potential of HTS, with a focus on REBCO-coated conductors, in relation…
We take a comprehensive look at conductors used in superconducting magnets for the accelerator sector and explore the ramifications of the present marketplace for supply of conductor to future accelerator facilities. While there are…
The 2014-2015 prediction, discovery, and confirmation of record high temperature superconductivity above 200K in H$_3$S, followed by the 2018 extension to superconductivity in the 250-280K range in lanthanum hydride, marks a new era in the…
The discovery of superconductivity at 203 K in H3S brought attention back to conventional superconductors whose properties can be described by the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) and the Migdal-Eliashberg theories. These theories predict…
Seven distinct families of superconductors with critical temperatures at ambient pressure that equal or surpass the historic 23 K limit for Nb3Ge have been discovered in the last 25 years. Each family is reviewed briefly and their common…
We propose an empirical approach to estimate the quality of superconducting joints (welds) between blocks of bulk high temperature superconductors (HTS). As a measuring value, we introduce a joint's quality factor and show its natural…
High-temperature superconductors (HTS) are finding use as high - current wires for potential application in power devices. The dependence of their basal-plane critical current properties on orientation in a magnetic field can pose important…
Conductors made of high-temperature (HTS) wires helically wound in one or more layers on round tubes (CORT) are compact, flexible, and can carry a large amount of current. Although these conductors were initially developed for DC…
A superconductor is a material that can conduct electricity with no resistance below its critical temperature (Tc). The highest Tc that has been achieved in cuprates1 is 133 K at ambient pressure2 and 164 K at high pressures3. As the nature…
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…
One of the reasons for the lack of understanding of both the mechanisms underlying the HTSC phenomenon and of the instability of materials with Tc > 300 K may be the widely accepted but wrong ideas about the types of chemical bonding in a…
Numerical modeling of superconductors is widely recognized as a powerful tool for interpreting experimental results, understanding physical mechanisms and predicting the performance of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) tapes, wires and…
Peltier current lead was proposed to reduce heat leak from the current lead. The temperature of the hot side of semiconductors was kept to be room temperature and the liquid nitrogen was used to cool the system in the experiment. The…
Protecting a high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet from a quench event is a challenging task. Because of the slow normal zone propagation velocity, the long reliable quench detection method by directly monitoring coil voltage may…
AC losses in High Temperature Superconductor tapes (HTS) are an important design parameter for large scale power applications. The electrical method is often used for losses measurements on SC tapes and, when the results are to be compared…
Conventional powder-in-tube (PIT) method has been the most effective technique for fabricating iron-based superconducting wires and tapes. Tremendous advances have been made during the last few years, especially for 122 family pnictide…
Development of energy-efficient fast cycling accelerator magnets is critical for the next generation of proton rapid cycling synchrotrons (RCS) for neutrino research and booster accelerators of future muon colliders. We see a unique…
Recently BCS superconductivity at 203 K has been discovery in a highly compressed hydrogen sulfide. We use first-principles calculations to systematically examine the effects of partially substituting the chalcogen atoms on the…
The increase of energy in accelerators over the past decades has led to the design of superconducting magnets for both accelerators and the associated detectors. The use of Nb-Ti superconducting materials allows an increase in the dipole…
The Tb-123 phase has been synthesized in single-phase form with the composition TbSr2Cu2.7Mo0.3O7 by solid-state reaction route and its phase purity is confirmed by neutron powder diffraction experiments. As-synthesized sample does not show…