Progress in performance improvement and new research areas for cost reduction of 2G HTS wires

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 21, Issue 3 PART 3, 2011, Pages 3049-3054

  Selvamanickam, V ^a   Chen, Y ^b   Kesgin, I ^a   Guevara, A ^a   Shi, T ^a   Yao, Y ^a   Qiao, Y ^b   Zhang, Y ^a   Majkic, G ^a   Carota, G ^b   Rar, A ^b   Xie, Y ^b   Dackow, J ^b   Maiorov, B ^c   Civale, L ^c   Braccini, V ^d   Jaroszynski, J ^d   Xu, A ^d   Larbalestier, D ^d   Bhattacharya, R ^e  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b Super Power Inc   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

BZO; Critical current; Electrodeposition; Magnetic field; MOCVD; Second generation HTS; Silver; Zr

Indexed keywords

BZO; COMMERCIAL MARKET; COST PERFORMANCE; CURRENT PERFORMANCE; HTS WIRES; IN-FIELD; METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MOCVD; OPERATING CONDITION; OVER CURRENT; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PRECURSOR COMPOSITION; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; RESEARCH AREAS; SECOND-GENERATION HTS; SELF FIELD; SILVER LAYER; ZR; ZR-DOPING;

COST REDUCTION; CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRODEPOSITION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANOMETALLICS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SILVER; ZIRCONIUM;

WIRE;

EID: 79957931176     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2011.2107310     Document Type: Article

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