The role of nickel substrates in the quench dynamics of silver coated YBCO tapes

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 II, 2003, Pages 1768-1771

  Duckworth, Robert C ^a   Lue, Jinwun W ^b   Lee, Dominic F ^b   Grabovickic, Robert ^a,c   Gouge, Michael J ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Powerlink Queensland   (Australia)

Author keywords

Nickel substrate; Normal zone propagation; Thermal runaway; YBCO stability

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; ELECTRIC CONTACTS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NICKEL; QUENCHING; SILVER; YTTRIUM BARIUM COPPER OXIDES;

CURRENT TRANSFER MECHANISM; NORMAL ZONE PROPAGATION;

SUPERCONDUCTING TAPES;

EID: 0041472382     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.812887     Document Type: Conference Paper

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