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In this letter, we report the first successful fabrication of dense, metal-clad MgB2 superconductor wires as well as the first demonstration of high transport Jc of greater than 36,000 A/cm2 in MgB2. The fabrication technique that we…

A major focus of the global HEP community is on high field superconducting magnets made of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) for future Energy Frontier Programs. Within the U.S. Magnet Development Program (US MDP), a key task is that…

Large high field superconducting magnets often requires high current superconducting cables. In order to develop these cables, a facility capable of providing high magnetic field with large sampling area as well as electrical current of…

2G high temperature superconducting (HTS) wires, YBCO coated conductors, perform a better carrying current capability, which is potentially applied in the manufacture of HTS magnets. This paper presents the experimental results of the…

A better understanding of the interaction between three phases is required when developing superconducting cables for high voltage AC systems. With a particular focus on the energy losses of real power transmission cables, in this paper we…

Decoupling charge and heat transport is essential for optimizing thermoelectric materials. Strategies to inhibit lattice-driven heat transport, however, also compromise carrier mobility, limiting the performance of most thermoelectrics,…

Designing and searching for a high thermal conductivity material in both bulk and nanoscale is highly demanding for electronics cooling. In this work, we studied the thermal conductivity of 2H-Germanium Carbide(2H-GeC) using first…

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…

The in-field critical current of commercial YBa2Cu3O7 coated conductors can be substantially enhanced by post-fabrication irradiation with 4 MeV protons. Irradiation to a fluence of 8x10^16 p/cm^2 induces a near doubling of the critical…

Direct current (DC) characterization of high temperature superconducting (HTS) coils is important for HTS applications, such as electric machines, superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) and transformers. In this paper, DC…

To explore the limits of layer wound (RE)Ba2Cu3O7-x (REBCO, RE = Rare Earth) coils in a high magnetic field environment > 30 T, a series of small insert coils have been built and characterized in background fields. One of the coils…

Multifilamentary MgB2/Fe wires and tapes with high transport critical current densities have been fabricated using a straightforward powder-in-tube (PIT) process. After annealing, we measured transport jc values up to 1.1 * 105 A/cm2 at 4.2…

MgB2 tapes and wires were fabricated by the Powder-In-Tube method. Stainless steel and Cu-Ni tubes were used as sheath materials, and no heat treatment was applied. The tapes made of stainless steel showed transport critical current density…

AC losses of YBCO coated conductors are investigated by calculation and experiment for the higher frequency regime. Previous research using YBCO film deposited onto single crystal substrates demonstrated the effectiveness of filamentary…

Cables made of MgB2 superconductors are currently explored as a viable solution for transporting high electrical power in the AC regime. In order to be competitive against the DC solution, the cables need to have an acceptable level of AC…

High-current superconducting cables are emerging as key enablers for next-generation power transmission systems; however, their deployment is often limited by transport AC losses. Hybrid superconducting cables combining…

We report the magnetization losses in an experimental multifilament coated conductor. A 4 mm wide and 10 cm long YBCO coated conductor was subdivided into eight 0.5 mm wide filaments by laser ablation and subjected to post-ablation…

High-temperature superconductors (HTS) could enable high-field magnets much stronger than is possible with Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn, but two key limiting factors have so far been the difficulty of achieving high critical current density in…

We report here that magnetic fields of almost 34 T, far above the upper 24 T limit of Nb3Sn, can be generated using a multifilament round wire conductor made of the high temperature cuprate superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8-x (Bi-2212). A…

This paper presents a design concept of an HTS/LTS hybrid dipole with 50 mm aperture and 20 T nominal field based on a cos-theta coil and a cold iron yoke. The HTS part of magnet coil uses REBCO Twisted Stacked Tape cable. The LTS part is…