Heat treatments are inevitable not only in the production of rare earth barium copper oxide
(REBCO) tapes, but also in their post-processing for applications, typically, in soldering and …

For the epoxy-impregnated high-temperature superconducting (HTS) REBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x
(REBCO) magnets, the quench cannot be still avoided in the operation, which may induce …

High-field superconducting solenoids have proven themselves to be of great value to
scientific research in a number of fields, including chemistry, physics and biology. Present …

YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7-x (YBCO) coated conductors (CCs) are now capable of carrying very high
transport critical current density Jc over a broad range of magnetic field and temperature …

A common feature of commercially available conductors based on high-temperature
superconducting compounds is the fluctuation of critical current along the length …

In recent years, there has been growing concern about the mechanical deformation induced
by the screening currents in high-field high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets …

The observed low quench propagation velocity in HTS superconductors is a problem for the
internal protection of magnet coils, which depends on the propagation velocity for the spread …

The critical current of a short YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7− δ (YBCO) coated conductor sample degrades
in an unprotected quench performed in a nearly adiabatic environment at 30 K. The …

The patterns of longitudinal I c fluctuations in 12 mm wide manufactured high-temperature
superconductor tapes are compared with those obtained after slitting the tapes to widths of 6 …

The development of superconducting magnets requires not only a conductor that is capable
of carrying sufficient critical current density (J c) at high magnetic field, but also one that is …