Summary of Wires, Tapes & Characterization Talks at ISS 2013

Sang-Soo Oh¹, and Teruo Izumi²

¹Korean Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI),
12, Bulmosan-ro 10beon-gil, Seongsan-gu, Changwon-si,
Gyeongnam, 642-120 Korea
²Superconductivity Research Laboratory, ISTEC,
Shinonome 1-10-13, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0062, Japan

Emails: [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract – The closing summaries of ISS-2013 contributions on Wires, Tapes & Characterization highlight the latest achievements and developments in processing, optimization and characterization of Nb₃Sn low-temperature superconductors, MgB₂, as well as BSCCO and REBCO high-temperature superconductors.

Keywords - Nb₃Sn, MgB₂, BSCCO, REBCO, coated conductors, low-cost processing, delamination, AC losses, artificial pinning centers, in-field properties   

IEEE/CSC & ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition), April 2014.
Received February 10, 2014; accepted April 10, 2014.  Reference No. CRP41; Category 2, 5