Superconductivity News Forum (SNF)
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High-current HTS Cables for Magnet Applications
Luisa Chiesa
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University,
Medford, MA, United States
Medford, MA, United States
Email: [email protected]
Abstract — It has been more than 25 years since the discovery of High Temperature Superconductors and following their utilization in power cable applications and layer-wound magnets, they are now being considered for future high-current, high-field magnets typically used in high-energy physics and fusion machines.
Discussions of the requirements and the desired targets needed for applications using high-current and high-field magnets will be presented together with a summary of the present status of the conductors currently being developed.
Various cable concepts to be used in large magnets and their advantages and disadvantages will be discussed addressing the following: What can we do with the conductors we have? What do we need and how can we achieve it?
Keywords (Index Terms) — high-current HTS cables, high-field superconducting magnets, BSCCO-2212, REBCO
IEEE/CSC & ESAS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY NEWS FORUM (global edition), October 2014.
Received September 15, 2014; Accepted September 18, 2014. Reference CRP45; Category 5, 6.
Plenary presentation given at ASC 2014; Charlotte, August 10-15, 2014; not submitted to IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.
Received September 15, 2014; Accepted September 18, 2014. Reference CRP45; Category 5, 6.
Plenary presentation given at ASC 2014; Charlotte, August 10-15, 2014; not submitted to IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.