Recent developments in high-temperature superconducting magnet technology

H Maeda, Y Yanagisawa - IEEE Transactions on applied …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of magnets made of high temperature superconductors (HTS) such as BSCCO and
REBCO easily provide higher magnetic fields and higher operating temperatures, enabling …

Novel technologies and configurations of superconducting magnets for MRI

Y Lvovsky, EW Stautner, T Zhang - Superconductor Science and …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A review of non-traditional approaches and emerging trends in superconducting magnets for
MRI is presented. Novel technologies and concepts have arisen in response to new clinical …

A public database of high-temperature superconductor critical current data

SC Wimbush, NM Strickland - IEEE Transactions on Applied …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the major impediments to the industrial take-up of high-temperature superconductors
is the paucity of comprehensive, reliable and relevant performance data on commercially …

Dynamic resistance of a high-Tc superconducting flux pump

Z Jiang, K Hamilton, N Amemiya, RA Badcock… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Superconducting flux pumps enable large currents to be injected into a superconducting
circuit, without the requirement for thermally conducting current leads which bridge between …

Typical electrical, mechanical, electromechanical characteristics of copper-encapsulated REBCO tapes after processing in temperature under 250° C

X Pan, W Wu, X Yu, L Lu, C Guo… - … Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Mechanism of a high-Tc superconducting flux pump: Using alternating magnetic field to trigger flux flow

J Geng, TA Coombs - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
High-T c Superconducting (HTS) magnets operating in persistent current mode suffer a
current decay due to flux creep of superconductor and joint resistance. Flux pumps are able …

Conductors for commercial MRI magnets beyond NbTi: requirements and challenges

M Parizh, Y Lvovsky, M Sumption - Superconductor Science and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a powerful medical diagnostic tool, is the largest
commercial application of superconductivity. The superconducting magnet is the largest and …

Development of a superconducting bulk magnet for NMR and MRI

T Nakamura, D Tamada, Y Yanagi, Y Itoh… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2015 - Elsevier
A superconducting bulk magnet composed of six vertically stacked annular single-domain c-
axis-oriented Eu–Ba–Cu–O crystals was energized to 4.74 T using a conventional …

Power dissipation in HTS coated conductor coils under the simultaneous action of AC and DC currents and fields

B Shen, C Li, J Geng, X Zhang, J Gawith… - Superconductor …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a comprehensive alternating current (AC) loss study of a circular high
temperature superconductor (HTS) coated conductor coil. The AC losses from a circular …

High temperature superconducting flux pumps for contactless energization

Z Wen, H Zhang, M Mueller - Crystals, 2022 - mdpi.com
The development of superconducting technology has seen continuously increasing interest,
especially in the area of clean power systems and electrification of transport with low CO2 …