High-performance Bi-2212 round wires made with recent powders

Jianyi Jiang, Griffin Bradford, S. Imam Hossain, Michael D. Brown, Jonathan Cooper, Evan Miller, Yibing Huang, Hanping Miao, Jeff A. Parrell, Marvis White, Andrew Hunt, Suvankar Sengupta, Rao Revur, Tengming Shen, Fumitake Kametani, Ulf P. Trociewitz, Eric E. Hellstrom, David C. Larbalestier

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Abstract

Multifilamentary Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O x (Bi-2212) wire made by the powder-in-tube technique is the only high-temperature superconductor made in the round shape preferred by magnet builders. The critical current density (J C ) of Bi-2212 round wire was improved significantly by the development of overpressure heat treatment in the past few years. Bi-2212 wire is commercially available in multiple architectures and kilometer-long pieces and is a very promising conductor for very high-field NMR and accelerator magnets. We studied the effects of precursor powder and heat treatment conditions on the superconducting properties and microstructure of recent Bi-2212 wires. Short samples of recent wire with optimized overpressure processing showed J C (4.2 K, 15 T) = 6640 A/mm 2 and J C (4.2 K, 30 T) = 4670 A/mm 2 , which correspond to engineering critical current densities J E (4.2 K, 15 T) = 1320 A/mm 2 and J E (4.2 K, 30 T) = 930 A/mm 2 .

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number8625563
JournalIEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Volume29
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Bi-2212 wire
  • critical current density
  • superconducting magnet
  • Superconductor

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