| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M34195/01 |
| Title: |
COST EFFECTIVE PROCESSING OF HIGH PERFORMANCE AND FLEXIBLE HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Choy, Professor K |
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Materials |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1999 |
Ends: |
31 December 2002 |
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159,556
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The progress of high temperature superconductors for power applications - e.g. fault current limiters and magnetic storage devices for electricity distribution networks - has been hampered by the lack of a commercially viable route to a high performance conductor. via extremely close collaboration of the partners (Imperial College, Birmingham University and Oxford Instruments), it is the aim to develop a novel, cost-effective and newly patented British coating technology called Electrostatic Assisted Combustion Chemical Vapour Deposition (eCCVD) for the manufacture of commercially viable HTS tapes for use in electric power applications including high field magnets. Key objectives include application of the novel eCCVD technique for the deposition of Yba2Cu307-d (YBCO) and Ce02/Zr02 buffer layers on the well characterised flexible metallic substrates, characterisation of the structure, mechanical and superconducting properties of the tapes using high resolution thin film XRD, AFM/STM, TEM, Jc in 1T, VSM, SQUID, mechanical testing etc; correlation of the process/structure/mechanical and superconducting properties of the tapes on the microscopic and macroscopic scale; and demonstration of its use in a high field magnet. The economics of this manufacturing route with respects to various product lines (e.g. high field magnets) will be reviewed throughout the programme.
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