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SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/aa980f
Keywords
Nb3Sn; powder-in-tube; artificial pinning centres; critical current density; superconducting wire
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Funding
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics under SBIR Program [DE-SC0009605, DE-SC0012083]
- State of Florida
- NSF [NSF-DMR-1157490]
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We report on the development of multifilamentary Nb3Sn superconductors by a versatile powder-in-tube technique (PIT) that demonstrates a simple pathway to a strand with a higher density of flux-pinning sites that has the potential to increase critical current density beyond present levels. The approach uses internal oxidation of Zr-alloyed Nb tubes to produce Zr oxide particles within the Nb3Sn layer that act as a dispersion of artificial pinning centres (APCs). In this design, SnO2 powder is mixed with Cu5Sn4 powder within the PIT core that supplies the Sn for the A15 reaction with Nb1Zr filament tubes. Initial results show an average grain size of similar to 38 nm in the A15 layer, compared to the 90-130 nm of typical APC-free high-J(c) strands made by conventional PIT or Internal Sn processing. There is a shift in the peak of the pinning force curve from H/H-irr of similar to 0.2 to similar to 0.3 and the pinning force curves can be deconvoluted into grain boundary and point-pinning components, the point-pinning contribution dominating for the APC Nb-1wt% Zr strands.
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