Compressive pre-strain in high-niobium-fraction Nb3Sn superconductors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 15, Issue 2 PART III, 2005, Pages 3560-3563

  Ekin, Jack W ^a   Cheggour, Najib ^a   Abrecht, Mike ^a   Clickner, Cameron ^a   Field, Mike ^b   Hong, Seung ^b   Parrell, Jeff ^b   Zhang, Youzhu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Oxford Superconducting Technology New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial strain; Critical current; Electromechanical properties; Nb 3Sn; Niobium tin; Pre strain; Thermal contraction

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTROPLATING; EXTRAPOLATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

AXIAL STRAIN; CRITICAL CURRENT; NB3SN; NIOBIUM-TIN; PRE-STRAIN; THERMAL CONTRACTION;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 22044442581     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2005.849360     Document Type: Conference Paper

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