Advances in second generation high temperature superconducting wire manufacturing and R&D at American Superconductor Corporation

MW Rupich, X Li, C Thieme… - Superconductor …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The RABiTS™/MOD-YBCO (rolling assisted biaxially textured substrate/metal–
organic deposition of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ) route has been established as a low-cost …

Second generation wire development at AMSC

MW Rupich, X Li, S Sathyamurthy… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
AMSC has established a Second Generation (2G) High-Temperature Superconductor (HTS)
wire manufacturing technology based on the Rolling Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrate …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid doubling of the critical current of YBa2Cu3O7− δ coated conductors for viable high-speed industrial processing

M Leroux, KJ Kihlstrom, S Holleis, MW Rupich… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that 3.5-MeV oxygen irradiation can markedly enhance the in-field critical
current of commercial second generation superconducting tapes with an exposure time of …

Wide-field imaging of superconductor vortices with electron spins in diamond

Y Schlussel, T Lenz, D Rohner, Y Bar-Haim… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Understanding the mechanisms behind high-T c type-II superconductors (SCs) is still an
open task in condensed-matter physics. One way to gain further insight into the microscopic …

[HTML][HTML] Densification behavior, microstructural evolution, and mechanical properties of TiC/AISI420 stainless steel composites fabricated by selective laser melting

Y Liu, M Tang, Q Hu, Y Zhang, L Zhang - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
AISI 420 martensitic stainless steel with excellent corrosion resistance is an ideal choice for
plastic injection molds. However, injection molds are easy to fail in high–intensity and high …

Nucleation and epitaxy growth of high-entropy REBa2Cu3O7–δ (RE= Y, Dy, Gd, Sm, Eu) thin films by metal organic deposition

J Chen, R Huang, X Zhou, D Zhou, M Li, C Bai… - Journal of Rare …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract High-entropy REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7–δ (RE= Y 0.7+ Dy 0.2+ Gd 0.2+ Sm 0.2+ Eu 0.2)(HE-
REBCO) superconducting films doped with multiple rare earth elements were successfully …

[HTML][HTML] Onset temperature of intrinsic pinning in a REBCO coated conductor from critical current anisotropy

NM Strickland, AA Soman, MW Rupich, SC Wimbush - Superconductivity, 2022 - Elsevier
The field-angle dependence of the critical current in a REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 coated conductor
has been measured over a fine range of temperatures from 15 K to 80 K. The particular …

Decoupling and tuning competing effects of different types of defects on flux creep in irradiated YBa2Cu3O7− δ coated conductors

S Eley, M Leroux, MW Rupich, DJ Miller… - Superconductor …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ coated conductors (CCs) have achieved high critical current
densities (J c) that can be further increased through the introduction of additional defects …

Flux pinning by discontinuous columnar defects in 74 MeV Ag-irradiated YBa2Cu3O7 coated conductors

NM Strickland, EF Talantsev, NJ Long, JA Xia… - Physica C …, 2009 - Elsevier
Linear damage tracks are created in production-quality YBCO coated conductors by
irradiation with 61–74MeV Ag ions. The ion tracks are observed by transmission electron …

Enhanced flux pinning by BaZrO3 nanoparticles in metal-organic deposited YBCO second-generation HTS wire

NM Strickland, NJ Long, EF Talantsev… - Physica C …, 2008 - Elsevier
We have formed BaZrO3 nanoparticles in YBa2Cu3O7− δ second-generation HTS wires
through modification of the chemical solution precursor for metal-organic deposition …