Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to provide a coated conductor having a high critical current and low AC loss. The high-temperature superconducting coated conductor that achieves this purpose has an elongated first metal substrate, and multiple filaments arranged on the first metal substrate so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the first metal substrate. The multiple filaments are arranged approximately in parallel with gaps therebetween, and each filament includes, in order from the first metal substrate side, a first superconducting layer containing a rare earth element, first stabilizing layers, second stabilizing layers, and a second superconducting layer containing a rare earth element.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a superconducting induction rotating machine that is smaller, more power-saving for its operation, and widely applicable as a propulsion generation system.

Abstract: Provided is an oxide superconductor composition that makes it possible to increase film thickness, increase production speed, and decrease costs when producing a REBaCuO-type oxide superconductor wire (wherein RE is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Y, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Eu, Er, Yb, Pr, and Ho). The oxide superconductor comprises, as essential components thereof, an RE salt of a carboxylic acid that serves as an RE component, that does not contain a ketone group, and that has 3-8 carbon atoms, barium trifluoroacetate that serves as a Ba component, one or more copper salts that serve as a Cu component and that are selected from the group consisting of copper salts of branched saturated aliphatic carboxylic acids having 6-16 carbon atoms and copper salts of alicyclic carboxylic acids having 6-16 carbon atoms, and an organic solvent that dissolves the aforementioned metal salt components.

Abstract: An RE123-based superconducting wire of the invention includes: a substrate; an intermediate layer provided above the substrate; and an oxide superconducting layer that is provided above the intermediate layer and is made of an oxide superconductor expressed by a composition formula of RE1Ba2Cu3O7-? where RE represents one kind of or two or more kinds of rare earth elements in the formula, wherein an Hf-containing compound of 0.5 to 10 mol % is introduced into the oxide superconducting layer, a different phase containing Hf is dispersed in the oxide superconducting layer as a flux pinning center, and the a-axial-ratio of the oxide superconducting layer is less than or equal to 1.5%.

Abstract: The present invention is configured such that, in a low AC loss oxide superconductor constituted by providing an oxide superconducting layer 6 on a substrate 1, said oxide superconducting layer 6 is separated into a plurality of filament conductors 2 in parallel to the lengthwise direction of said substrate 1 by dividing grooves 3 plurally formed in the widthwise direction of said substrate, and a high-resistance oxide 8 is formed in said dividing grooves 3. Because of the invention, it is possible to increase the insulation properties of individually divided mated filament conductors, and to obtain an oxide superconductor that has low AC loss.

Abstract: An RE123-based superconducting wire includes a base material, an intermediate layer formed on the base material, and an oxide superconducting layer which is formed on the intermediate layer and includes an oxide superconductor having a composition formula represented by RE1Ba2Cu3O7?? (RE represents one or two or more rare earth elements), in which the oxide superconducting layer includes 0.5 to 10 mol % of a Hf-including compound dispersed in the oxide superconducting layer as an artificial pinning center, a film thickness d of the oxide superconducting layer is d>1 ?m, and a current characteristic of Jcd/Jc1?0.9 (Jc1 represents a critical current density when the thickness of the oxide superconducting layer is 1 ?m, and Jcd represents the critical current density when the thickness of the oxide superconducting layer is d ?m) is satisfied.

Abstract: Provided is an oxide superconducting wire material, wherein pinning of magnetic flux, under an environment in which magnetic field is applied, can be conducted efficiently towards any magnetic-field applying angle direction, to secure a high superconductive property. The oxide superconducting wire material (100) is provided with a metal substrate (110), an intermediate layer (120) formed upon the metal substrate (110), and a REBaCuO-system superconductive layer (140) formed upon the intermediate layer (120). RE comprises one or more elements selected from Y, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, and Ho. Oxide particles including Zr are distributed within the superconductive layer (140) as magnetic-flux pinning points (145), and the mole ratio (y) of Ba included within the superconductive layer (140) is, when the mole ratio of Zr is assumed to be x, within a range of (1.2+ax)?y?(1.8+ax), wherein 0.5?a?2.

Abstract: A production process of a thick-film tape-shaped RE-type (123) superconductor having a high critical current value. The production process has the steps of providing a composite substrate having Gd2Zr2O7 and CeO2 stacked in that order onto a Hastelloy substrate, coating a raw material solution prepared by dissolving a trifluoroacetate of Y and Ba and a naphthenate of Cu onto the composite substrate, heat treating the coated composite substrate by calcination, then subjecting the calcined assembly to intermediate heat-treatment at a temperature below the temperature of heat-treatment for superconductor production, and then heat treating the assembly in an argon gas atmosphere under conditions of highest heating temperature 760° C., water vapor partial pressure 13.5%, and oxygen partial pressure 0.09% for superconductor production to produce a tape-shaped RE-type (123) superconductor having a YBCO superconducting film having a thickness of more than about 2 ?m.

Abstract: A RE-type oxide superconducting wire having excellent angular dependence for magnetic field of Jc is obtained by finely dispersing magnetic flux pinning centers into a superconductor. A mixed solution which comprises a metal-organic complex solution including a metal element which composes a RE-type oxide superconductor whose Ba content is reduced and a metal-organic complex solution including at least one or more kinds of metals which are selected from Zr, Ce, Sn, or Ti which has a larger affinity for Ba is coated onto an intermediate layer of a composite substrate, and the assembly is then calcined to disperse artificially and finely oxide particles (magnetic flux pinning centers) including Zr. Thus, the angular dependence for magnetic field (Jc,min/Jc,max) of Jc can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: A superconducting wire having at least a superconducting thin film and a stabilizing film formed one on top of another in order on a substrate having a predetermined width and a predetermined length, the superconducting wire having at least one cut made along a direction of the length of the superconducting wire, the superconducting wire being bendable at the cut in a width direction.

Abstract: A low AC-loss multi-filament superconducting wire material of the invention includes an elongated base material, an intermediate layer formed on the base material; a superconducting layer formed on the intermediate layer, and a metal stabilizing layer formed on the superconducting layer, wherein a plurality of grooves extending along a long direction of the base material is formed in parallel in a width direction of the base material, and reach the intermediate layer from the metal stabilizing layer via the superconducting layer to expose the intermediate layer; and a difference ?d (=d1?d2) between a width d1 of the grooves at a lower part of the superconducting layer and a width d2 of the grooves at a lower part of the metal stabilizing layer is not more than 10 ?m.

Abstract: A substrate for an oxide superconductor including: a metal base; an interlayer of MgO formed on the metal base by ion beam assisted deposition method (IBAD METHOD); and a cap layer that is formed directly on the interlayer and has a higher degree of crystal orientation than that of the interlayer, in which the interlayer of MgO is subjected to a humidity treatment prior to formation of the cap layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tape-formed oxide superconductor, in which a tape-formed wire material (6 in FIG. 1) is extended between a pair of reels (5a and 5b). Besides, a reactive gas is supplied form the gas supply ports of a reactive gas supply pipe (3a) vertically to the upper side film surface of the tape-formed wire material (6), so as to react the film body of this tape-formed wire material into a superconducting layer, while at the same time, a gas after the reaction is discharged from the gas discharge ports of discharge pipes (4a and 4b) for discharging the gas after the reaction. Likewise, the reactive gas is supplied vertically to the lower side film surface of the tape-formed wire material (6), so as to react the film body of this tape-formed wire material into a superconducting layer, while at the same time, the gas after the reaction is discharged from the gas discharge ports of discharge pipes (4c and 4d) for discharging the gas after the reaction.

Abstract: Problem: To provide an REBCO superconductor which has electromagnetic properties of an extremely small magnetization in a DC magnetic field or an extremely small pinning loss in a fluctuating magnetic field and thereby enable production of a REBCO superconducting wire with an extremely small magnetization and pinning loss. Solution to Problem: A RE1Ba2Cu3O7-z superconductor characterized by having a magnetization-zero-region on its magnetization curve, wherein in the magnetization-zero-region a rate of change of magnetization remains at about zero near zero magnetization, the magnetization curve is formed when an external magnetic field turns from an increase to a decrease or from a decrease to an increase, and RE is one or more of Y, Gd, Nd, Sm, Eu, Yb, Pr, and Ho.

Abstract: An oxide superconducting tape comprised of a substrate on which a GdBa2Cu3O7-? (?=0 to 1) superconductor layer is formed, characterized in that, inside of said superconductor layer, columnar or rod-shaped BaZrO3 crystals are dispersed such that they are inclined from c-axis of the superconducting crystals and that BaZrO3 crystals adjacent in longitudinal directions are in a skew position.

Abstract: A RE-type oxide superconducting wire having excellent angular dependence for magnetic field of Jc is obtained by finely dispersing magnetic flux pinning centers into a superconductor. A mixed solution which comprises a metal-organic complex solution including a metal element which composes a RE-type oxide superconductor whose Ba content is reduced and a metal-organic complex solution including at least one or more kinds of metals which are selected from Zr, Ce, Sn, or Ti which has a larger affinity for Ba is coated onto an intermediate layer of a composite substrate, and the assembly is then calcined to disperse artificially and finely oxide particles (magnetic flux pinning centers) including Zr. Thus, the angular dependence for magnetic field (Jc,min/Jc,max) of Jc can be remarkably improved.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rare earth element oxide superconductive wire material improved in orientation by forming the bed layer by the MOD method. In the superconductive wire material (10) produced by forming a MOD-CZO layer (2), an IBS-GZO (3), an IBAD-MgO layer (4), a LMO layer (5), a PLD-CeO2 layer (6) and a PLD-GdBCO superconductive layer (8) in this order on an electropolished substrate (1) in an oxygen atmosphere, the CeO2 layer has a value of ??=4.2 degrees, which is almost the same as in the case of using a mechanically polished substrate, and the GdBCO super conductive layer has a value of Ic=243 A (Jc=up to 5 MA/cm2), which is almost the same as in the case of using a mechanically polished substrate.

Abstract: Tape-shaped superconducting wires, and a superconducting coil formed from said wires, wherein a plurality of electrically separated superconducting film parts, each having a rectangular cross section and arranged in parallel, form parallel conductors, providing superconducting wires capable of containing losses incurred in the presence of alternating current (A/C). A superconducting coil is made by winding the superconducting wires, wherein the coil structure contains at least a part wherein perpendicular interlinkage magnetic fluxes acting among conductor elements of the parallel conductors by the distribution of magnetic fields generated by the superconducting coils cancel mutually in order to contain circulating current within the wires and to make shunt current uniform, thereby providing a low-loss A/C superconducting coil.

Abstract: This invention provides a production process of a thick-film tape-shaped RE-type (123) superconductor having a high critical current value. The production process comprises providing a composite substrate comprising Gd2Zr2O7 and CeO2 stacked in that order onto a Hastelloy substrate, coating a raw material solution prepared by dissolving a trifluoroacetate of Y and Ba and a naphthenate of Cu onto the composite substrate, heat treating the coated composite substrate by calcination, then subjecting the calcined assembly to intermediate heat-treatment at a temperature below the temperature of heat-treatment for superconductor production, and then heat treating the assembly in an argon gas atmosphere under conditions of highest heating temperature 760° C., water vapor partial pressure 13.5%, and oxygen partial pressure 0.09% for superconductor production to produce a tape-shaped RE-type (123) superconductor comprising a YBCO superconducting film having a thickness of more than about 2 ?m.

Abstract: This invention provides a production process of a tape-shaped superconductor which can realize high Jc and Ic values by virtue of the elimination of the cause of generation of cracks and deterioration of an electrical connectivity in crystal grain boundaries. In producing an Re-base (123) superconductor on a substrate by an MAD process, the use of a raw material solution having a Re:Ba:Cu molar ratio of 1:X:3, wherein X is a Ba molar ratio satisfying X<2 (preferably 1.0?X?1.8, especially 1.3?x?1.7), can realize the production of a thick-film tape-shaped superconductor having a superconductivity of Jc=3.20 MA/cm2 and Ic=525 A/cm (X=1.5).