[HTML][HTML] Low-temperature superconductors: nb3Sn, Nb3Al, and NbTi

N Banno - Superconductivity, 2023 - Elsevier
Low-temperature superconducting (LTS) wires are of significant importance in high-field
magnet applications. Current developments of the LTS wires are attributed to many studies …

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 …

Beneficial influence of Hf and Zr additions to Nb4at% Ta on the vortex pinning of Nb3Sn with and without an O source

S Balachandran, C Tarantini, PJ Lee… - Superconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we show that addition of Hf to Nb4Ta can significantly improve the high field
performance of Nb 3 Sn, making it suitable for dipole magnets for a machine like the 100 …

Onset of Mechanical Degradation due to Transverse Compressive Stress in Nb3Sn Rutherford-Type Cables

K Puthran, C Barth, A Ballarino… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the framework of the High Field Magnets program at CERN, lower limits of degradative
mechanical loads on reacted and impregnated Nb 3 Sn Rutherford-type cables are being …

Influence of Nb alloying on Nb recrystallization and the upper critical field of

N Paudel, C Tarantini, S Balachandran, WL Starch… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Nb 3 Sn conductors are important candidates for high-field magnets for particle accelerators,
and they continue to be widely used for many laboratory and nuclear magnetic resonance …

The A-15-type superconducting hydride La4H23: a nanograined structure with low strain, strong electron-phonon interaction, and a moderate level of nonadiabaticity

EF Talantsev, VV Chistyakov - Superconductor Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
For seven decades, when referring to A-15 superconductors, we meant metallic A 3 B alloys
(where A is a transition metal, and B is group IIIB and IVB elements) discovered by Hardy …

Insight into the effect of Ti-addition on diffusion-controlled growth and texture of Nb3Sn intermetallic superconductor phase

S Santra, SK Makineni, G Shankar, S Suwas… - Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
The alloying of Ti with Cu (Sn) and Nb significantly increases the grain boundary diffusion-
controlled growth kinetics of Nb 3 Sn accompanied with a decrease in the activation energy …

Thermodynamic re-modelling of the Cu–Nb–Sn system: Integrating the nausite phase

J Lachmann, MJ Kriegel, A Leineweber, SL Shang… - Calphad, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Currently available Cu–Nb–Sn phase diagrams lack the recently discovered
nausite phase (Cu, Nb) Sn 2, which is an important intermediate in the course of thermal …

An intermetallic powder-in-tube approach to increased flux-pinning in Nb3Sn by internal oxidation of Zr

LR Motowidlo, PJ Lee, C Tarantini… - Superconductor …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on the development of multifilamentary Nb 3 Sn superconductors by a versatile
powder-in-tube technique (PIT) that demonstrates a simple pathway to a strand with a higher …

On the mechanisms governing the critical current reduction in Nb3Sn Rutherford cables under transverse stress

G De Marzi, B Bordini, D Baffari - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Within the framework of the HiLumi-LHC project, CERN is currently manufacturing 11 T
dipole and quadrupole accelerator magnets using state-of-the-art Nb3Sn Rutherford cables …