Abstract: Disclosed is a method of splicing ReBCO high temperature superconductors (HTSs), which ensures excellent superconductivity after splicing. The method of splicing 2G ReBCO HTSs allows a superconductors-spliced assembly to exhibit excellent superconductivity by direct contact of high temperature superconducting layers of two strands of 2G ReBCO HTSs and solid state atoms diffusion pressurized splicing there between at a ReBCO below peritectic reaction temperature in a vacuum, and enables loss of superconductivity caused by loss of oxygen due to transport and out-diffusion of oxygen to atoms during splicing to be recovered through oxygenation annealing.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 3, 2014
Publication date:
December 10, 2015
Applicant:
K. JOINS. INC.
Inventors:
Young-Kun OH, Hee-Sung ANN, Myung-Whon LEE
Abstract: Disclosed is a splicing method of two second-generation ReBCO high temperature superconductor coated conductors (2G ReBCO HTS CCs), in which, with stabilizing layers removed from the two strands of 2G ReBCO HTS CCs through chemical wet etching or plasma dry etching, surfaces of the two high temperature superconducting layers are brought into direct contact with each other and heated in a splicing furnace in a vacuum for micro-melting portions of the surfaces of the high temperature superconducting layers to permit inter-diffusion of ReBCO atoms such that the surfaces of the two superconducting layers can be spliced to each other and oxygenation annealing for recovery of superconductivity which was lost during splicing.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 29, 2012
Date of Patent:
March 31, 2015
Assignee:
K.Joins
Inventors:
Young-Kun Oh, Hee-Sung Ann, Myung-Whon Lee, Hai-Gun Lee