Abstract: A composition comprises one or more continuous fibers embedded in a high temperature superconducting material.

Abstract: An output parameter adjustment method employing an ambient light distribution field including: acquiring an environmental image of a background environment in a viewing angle range of a user; dividing the environmental image according to preset partitioning to obtain environmental sub-images; obtaining the illumination value of each environmental sub-image; splicing the illumination of all of environmental sub-images to obtain distributed illumination distribution information corresponding to the environmental image; obtaining a first illumination model corresponding to the illumination distribution information; querying a model-parameter list, to obtain a first adjustment parameter corresponding to the first illumination model; and adjusting, display parameters of a display screen of a user terminal and/or adjusting light compensation output parameters of a lighting compensation device according to the first adjustment parameter so that the display parameter of the display screen match an illumination state

Abstract: Methods and devices for producing a superconductive conductor are disclosed. The method includes providing a plurality of conductive strips by means of a strip provision device, applying liquid soldering agent onto the plurality of conductive strips, stacking the conductive strips wetted with soldering agent, and forming a superconductive body by machining the strip stack.

Abstract: A high-temperature superconducting filament and cable, and a method for manufacturing same. The substrate used to grow the superconducting layer is removed, and the exfoliated superconducting layer is coated with a protective layer, and then sliced into narrow strips. The strips are thereafter encapsulated with a conductive metal to provide a high-temperature superconducting filament. The filaments may be bundled together to provide a high-temperature superconducting cable.

Abstract: A transformer includes: an upper E core; a lower E core; a first coil portion disposed so as to cover a magnetic leg of the upper E core and a magnetic leg of the lower E core; and a second coil portion disposed so as to cover the periphery of the first coil portion in a direction perpendicular to the central axis of winding of the first coil portion. The first coil portion includes a bobbin and an edgewise coil wound around the bobbin. The second coil portion includes a bobbin and an edgewise coil wound around the bobbin.

Abstract: Provided is a superconducting fault current limiter having a composite insulating structure. The superconducting fault current limiter includes: a superconducting current limiting unit, an inner composite insulating cylinder, an outer composite insulating cylinder and a low-temperature container. The outer composite insulating cylinder is sleeved inside the low-temperature container; the inner composite insulating cylinder is sleeved inside the outer composite insulating cylinder; the superconducting current limiting unit is sleeved inside the inner composite insulating cylinder. The superconducting current limiting unit and the inner composite insulating cylinder are securely connected through a first support, and the low-temperature container and the outer composite insulating cylinder are securely connected through a second support.

Abstract: An architecture for, and techniques for fabricating, a cryogenic microwave filter having reduced Kapitza resistance are provided. In some embodiments, the cryogenic microwave filter can comprise a substrate and a conductive line. The substrate can be formed of a material having a thermal conductivity property that sufficiently reduces Kapitza resistance in the cryogenic environment. The conductive line can be formed in a recess of the substrate and facilitate a filter operation on a microwave signal propagated in a cryogenic environment. In some embodiments, the conductive line can be formed according to a sintering technique that can reduce Kapitza resistance.

Abstract: An electric wire conductor having both flexibility and a space-saving property. Also provided are a covered electric wire and a wiring harness containing the electric wire conductor. An electric wire conductor contains a wire strand containing a plurality of elemental wires twisted together. The electric wire conductor has a flat portion in which a cross section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. Assuming a conductor cross-sectional area of the flat portion as s mm2 and a vacancy ratio defined as a ratio of vacancies not occupied by the elemental wires in a cross section of the flat portion as v %, the conductor cross-sectional area and the vacancy ratio satisfies v>0.29 s+2.0. The covered electric wire contains electric wire conductor and an insulator covering the conductor. The wiring harness contains the covered electric wire.

Abstract: A superconducting magnetic energy storage system (SMES). The SMES includes a toroidally wound super conducting magnet having a toroidal magnetic core with a charging winding and a discharging winding. The charging winding and discharging winding are wound on the toroidal magnetic core. The SMES also includes a DC power source, the DC power source operable to provide DC current to the charging winding of the toroidally wound superconducting magnet, and a modulator operably connected to the DC power source and the charging winding, the modulator operable to modulate at least a portion of the DC current applied to the charging winding of the superconducting magnet. The energy is stored in a magnetic field of the superconducting magnet by applying a current to the charging winding of the superconducting magnet, and energy is withdrawn from the magnetic field by a current flowing in the discharging winding.

Abstract: A bundle of superconducting cables employs a plurality of superconducting cables, each having a former and a plurality of superconducting tape conductors wound in at least one layer around the former in a helical fashion. Each superconducting tape conductor has at least one superconducting layer. Each superconducting cable lacks an outer insulating layer and is held in a bundle of cables with each other superconducting cable of the plurality of superconducting cables. A sheath of non-conductive material covers the bundle of cables.

Abstract: A self-retracting coiled cable having a variable length along a center line can include an outer insulator sleeve having a longitudinal axis. The self-retracting coiled cable can also include a spring material extending along the longitudinal axis of the outer insulator sleeve. The spring material can hold the outer insulator sleeve in a helical shape around the center line. The spring material can also allow the self-retracting coiled cable to expand upon an application of an axial force to an end of the self-retracting coiled cable, thereby increasing a length of the self-retracting coiled cable, and to retract upon a removal of the axial force from the end of the self-retracting coiled cable, thereby reducing the length of the self-retracting coiled cable. The self-retracting coiled cable can further include multiple wires extending along the longitudinal axis of the outer insulator sleeve and disposed symmetrically around the spring material.

Abstract: Quench protected structured (QPS) superconducting cables, methods of fabricating the same, and methods of bending the same are disclosed. The methods of bending the QPS superconducting cables can be employed to produce windings. The QPS superconducting cables can rapidly drive a distributed quench to a normal conducting state in a superconducting cable if a region of the cable spontaneously quenches during high current operation.

Abstract: A surface-treated ceramic powder includes a plurality of ceramic particles and a surface-treating material. Each of the ceramic particles is at least partially coated by the surface-treating material, wherein the ceramic particles have an average particle diameter ranging from 10 micrometer (?m) to 100 ?m, and the surface-treating material is made of metal, metal oxide or the combination thereof.

Abstract: A method comprising incorporating indium into an entire Sn film for preventing the growth of whiskers from the Sn film, wherein the Sn film is applied to a metallic substrate. The indium is present in the entire thickness of the Sn film.

Abstract: A thermoelectric conversion element includes a cable. The cable includes a first member extended in the axis direction of the cable, and a second member extended in the axis direction to cover at least a part of the outer face of the first member. One of the first and second members is a magnetic body. The other of the first and second members is a conductive body formed of material exhibiting a spin orbit coupling.

Abstract: The substrate and buffer layers, of either one-sided or two-sided superconducting tape, are separated from the YCBO layer(s) of the tape by a combined action of radiative or inductive heat and mechanical force via a reel-to-reel manufacturing process. The exfoliation process may also utilize an air blade(s) to facilitate the separation of the layers of the tape.

Abstract: The present invention is a superconducting partial insulation magnet and a method for providing the same. The magnet includes a coil with a non-insulated superconducting wire winding wound around a bobbin. The coil has a first wire layer, a second wire layer substantially surrounding the first layer, and a first layer of insulating material disposed between the first wire layer and the second wire layer. Each wire layer comprises a plurality of turns, and the first layer of insulating material substantially insulates the second wire layer from the first wire layer.

Abstract: In various embodiments, superconducting wires incorporate diffusion barriers composed of Ta alloys that resist internal diffusion and provide superior mechanical strength to the wires.

Abstract: A configuration and a method of constructing a high-temperature superconductor tape including a plurality superconducting filaments sandwiched between a substrate and an overlayer comprising compliant material extending to the substrate through gaps between each superconducting filament thereby isolating each superconducting filament.

Abstract: A process for making a composite product comprises the steps of: A. Circumferentially plating a carbon fiber core with an alloy film including a film of high entropy alloy and liquid metal alloy or a film of metallic glass to form a film-clad carbon fiber thread; B. Weaving a plurality of said film-clad carbon fiber threads to form an interlaced film-clad carbon fiber sheet; and C. Vibrationally thermally pressing a plurality of said interlaced film-clad carbon fiber sheets as superimposed with one another to form a composite product.

Abstract: There is provided a superconducting magnet device that suppresses interference of a part of a tape wire wound around a center axis with another adjacent part. The number of unit wire layer turns of a first coil among the plurality of first coils is smaller than a mean value of the respective numbers of unit wire layer turns of the plurality of first coils, the number of unit wire layer turns of each of the first coils being expressed by a mean value of the respective numbers of turns of the tape wire in the plurality of wire layers, the first coil being disposed at such a position that compressive force acting on the first coil in a direction in which the center axis extends is the largest on the assumption that the respective numbers of unit wire layer turns of the plurality of first coils were the same.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet in which efficiency of conduction cooling is improved is described as well as a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus that includes the superconducting magnet and requires no liquid helium. The magnet resonance imaging apparatus includes: a coil portion including a winding core, a winding portion formed by winding a wire around the winding core, a first flange provided on one side of the winding core, and a second flange provided on the other side of the winding core; a cooling device for cooling the coil portion; and a heat conducting member for thermally connecting the coil portion and the cooling device, in which at least one of the first flange, the second flange, and the winding core has a region made of a material whose thermal contraction rate is larger than a thermal contraction rate of the winding portion.

Abstract: An insulated wire in which at least one layer of an insulating material is coated around a conductor, wherein the insulated wire has a part in which relative permittivity is different in a length direction or a circumferential direction in an identical coating layer and a method of producing the same, and a rotating electrical machine and a method of producing the same.

Abstract: Methods for producing a multifilament Nb3Sn superconducting wire having a Jc value of at least 2000 A/mm2 at 4.2 K and 12 T by a) packing a plurality of Cu encased Nb rods within a first matrix which is surrounded by an intervening Nb diffusion barrier and a second matrix on the other side of the barrier remote from the rods thereby forming a packed subelement for the superconducting wire; b) providing a source of Sn within the subelement; c) assembling the metals within the subelement, the relative sizes and ratios of Nb, Cu and Sn being selected such that (i) the Nb fraction of the subelement cross section including and within the diffusion barrier is from 50 to 65% by area; (ii) the atomic ratio of the Nb to Sn including and within the diffusion barrier of the subelement is from 2.7 to 3.7; (iii) the ratio of the Sn to Cu within the diffusion barrier of the subelement is such that the Sn wt %/(Sn wt %+Cu wt %) is 45%-65%; (iv) the Cu to Nb local area ratio (LAR) of the Cu-encased Nb rods is from 0.10 to 0.

Abstract: A manufacturing method includes forming a superconductive thin-film layer on a substrate and processing the superconductive thin-film layer into a shape of a detection coil for magnetic resonance measurement. Accordingly, a superconductive thin-film layer having the detection coil shape can be formed. The method further includes irradiating the shape-processed superconductive thin-film layer with ions. Accordingly, lattice defects serving as pinning can be formed in the superconductive thin-film layer.

Abstract: A manufacturing method includes forming a superconductive thin-film layer on a substrate and processing the superconductive thin-film layer into a shape of a detection coil for magnetic resonance measurement. Accordingly, a superconductive thin-film layer having the detection coil shape can be formed. The method further includes irradiating the shape-processed superconductive thin-film layer with ions. Accordingly, lattice defects serving as pinning can be formed in the superconductive thin-film layer.

Abstract: The embodiments herein describe technologies of cryogenic digital systems with a power supply located in an ambient temperature domain and logic located in a cryogenic temperature domain. A pair of conductors is operable to carry current with a voltage difference between the power supply and the logic. The pair of conductors includes a first portion thermally coupled to a temperature-regulated or temperature-controlled intermediate temperature domain. The intermediate temperature domain is less than the ambient temperature domain and greater than the cryogenic temperature domain.

Abstract: In various embodiments, superconducting wires incorporate diffusion barriers composed of Ta alloys that resist internal diffusion and provide superior mechanical strength to the wires.

Abstract: A coated conductor comprises a substrate supporting a ReBCO superconductor adapted to carry current in a superconducting state. The superconductor is characterized in having peaks in critical current (Jc) of at least 0.2 MA/cm2 in a magnetic field of about 1 Tesla when the field is applied normal to the surface of the superconductor and when the field is applied parallel to the surface of the superconductor, and further characterized in that the superconductor includes horizontal defects and columnar detects in a size and an amount sufficient to result in the said critical current response. The conductor is characterized in that the ratio of the height of the peaks in the Jc is in the range from 3:1 with the ratio of the field perpendicular (0 degrees) to the field parallel (+/?90 degrees) to the range from 3:1 with the ratio of the field parallel to the field perpendicular.

Abstract: There is provided methods of manufacturing a superconductor element and a method of manufacturing a phononic element. The method of manufacturing a superconductor element comprises the step of forming a periodic patterned structure in a material to alter an electronic structure in a primary layer (M) of the material to couple with the or each phonon of the primary layer (M) so as to induce superconductivity in the primary layer (M) or modify the superconductivity of the primary layer, and/or create or alter one or more phonons in a primary layer (M) of the material to couple with the electrons of the primary layer (M) so as to induce superconductivity in the primary layer (M) or modify the superconductivity of the primary layer.

Abstract: A wave guide assembly for a control and diagnostic system for a machine, the wave guide assembly includes a housing defining an exterior surface and an internal cavity extending between distal ends. A wave guide is defined within the internal cavity. At least one open conduit is defined within the internal cavity providing a space for routing conductors through the housing. A fluid passage is defined within the internal cavity separate from the wave guide. A control and diagnostic system for a machine and a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.

Abstract: A superconducting bulk magnet comprising a plurality of superconducting bulk materials combined, in which breakage of superconducting bulk materials is prevented and a strong magnetic field can be generated, that is, a superconducting bulk magnet comprising a plurality of superconducting bulk materials, each comprising a single-crystal formed RE1Ba2Cu3Oy (RE is one or more elements selected from Y or rare earth elements, where 6.8?y?7.

Abstract: By using an electrically conductive PTFE fabric, high-voltage insulation systems are simplified and can be made thinner, also improving the thermal conductivity. The insulation material is in two layers, each with a hydrophobic and a hydrophobic region, and the hydrophobic regions of the layers are opposed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a superconductor and a method of manufacturing the same. The superconductor comprises: a substrate having a tape shape that extends in a first direction and having surfaces which are defined as a top surface, a bottom surface, and both side surfaces; a superconductive layer positioned on the top surface of the substrate; a first stabilizing layer disposed on the superconductive layer and containing a first metal; a protective layer disposed on the first stabilizing layer and containing a second metal which is different from the first metal; and an first alloy layer disposed between the stabilizing layer and the protective layer and containing the first and second metals.

Abstract: Included are: a first superconducting wire rod having a first front surface, and a first back surface, and also having a first superconducting layer, and first reinforcing layers; a second superconducting wire rod having a second front surface, and a second back surface, and also having a second superconducting layer, and second reinforcing layers; and a connection member joining the first superconducting wire rod to the second superconducting wire rod. The first superconducting wire rod has a first edge portion, and the second superconducting wire rod has a second edge portion. The first front surface located at the first edge portion is joined by the connection member to the second front surface located at other than the second edge portion, and the second front surface located at the second edge portion is joined by the connection member to the first front surface located at other than the first edge portion.

Abstract: In order to obtain a highly versatile superconducting cable capable of absorbing differences in thermal contraction amounts that arise between three members, these being a cable core, an inner tube, and an outer tube, and to obtain a superconducting cable manufacturing method of the same, a superconducting cable includes a thermal insulation vacuum tube and a cable core. The thermal insulation vacuum tube includes an inner tube fixed at both ends and having a cooling medium filled inside, and an outer tube disposed at an outer peripheral side of the inner tube with a space between the outer tube and the inner tube maintained at a vacuum, and is configured to include a winding section wound with one or more turns. The cable core is fixed at both ends and disposed inside the inner tube.

Abstract: A composition for a plurality of configurations of a high-temperature superconductor tape including a superconducting film disposed on a compliant film or sandwiched or captured between at least one pair of compliant film layers.

Abstract: A method for constructing a superconductive cable system is proposed. Using this method, at least one superconductive cable (2) is mounted in a tubular cryostat (3) serving for guiding a cooling agent by means of which the cryostat (3) equipped with the cable (2) and wherein the cable (2) and the cryostat (3) are transported to the placement location and both ends are connected to units. The cable (2) is mounted in a cryostat (3) which at both axial ends (3b, 3c) protrudes beyond the cable (2). The unit of cable (2) and cryostat (3) is transported to the placement location. The ends (3b, 3c) protruding beyond the cable (2) are cut to a predetermined length. The superconductive cable (2) and the cryostat (3) are subsequently connected to the units.

Abstract: Quench protected structured (QPS) superconducting cables, methods of fabricating the same, and methods of bending the same are disclosed. The methods of bending the QPS superconducting cables can be employed to produce windings. The QPS superconducting cables can rapidly drive a distributed quench to a normal conducting state in a superconducting cable if a region of the cable spontaneously quenches during high current operation.

Abstract: A method for forming superconducting connection structure between at least two superconducting wires is disclosed, where each wire includes at least one superconducting filament. An end piece of each superconducting wire may be positioned inside a cavity of a pressing tool. A contacting material including MgB2 and/or a precursor material for MgB2 may also be positioned inside the cavity. Pressure may be applied to the contacting material through the pressing tool, and the contacting material may be heated inside the cavity. Pressure and heat may be applied simultaneously, at least during part of the process. A superconducting connection structure including at least two superconducting wires, each wire including at least one superconducting filament, and a superconducting connection between the end pieces of the two wires is also disclosed. The connection may be formed of heated and compressed contacting material including MgB2.

Abstract: In various embodiments, superconducting wires incorporate diffusion barriers composed of Ta alloys that resist internal diffusion and provide superior mechanical strength to the wires.

Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for producing superconducting joints between superconductive segments of a Bi-2212 high-temperature superconducting (HTS) conductor, thereby eliminating the heat generating resistive joints that are commonly known in the art for connecting two or more smaller Bi-2212 conductive segments to create an Bi-2212 conductor of adequate length.

Abstract: To provide a wiring harness and a routing structure of the wiring harness able to prevent high temperature and its influence caused by heat generation. A wiring harness includes a harness main body having a plurality of high voltage conducting lines. The high voltage conducting lines are arranged with gaps between the adjacent high voltage conducting lines. Further, the plurality of high voltage conducting lines are arranged to maintain an interval as the gap. It becomes a routing structure of the wiring harness when curved portions of such high voltage conducting lines are directly or indirectly made contact with a shield cover covering the wiring harness. Because the high voltage conducting lines of the wiring harness are arranged with gaps between the adjacent high voltage conducting lines, radiation performance of the wiring harness is better than the wiring harness of which high voltage conducting lines are bundled.

Abstract: A cable winding machine for winding transposed cable from multiple serpentine subconductors such as in particular Roebel cable from such 2G HTS tape, without damaging the tape through edge-wise bending, comprises a conductor supply stage carrying subconductor supply spools to move the supply spools about a machine axis and maintain the supply spools in a common orientation as the subconductors unwind and move through the machine in a machine direction, and a cable forming stage after the conductor supply stage in the machine direction, arranged to bring together the subconductors and at which the subconductors interleave to form the transposed cable.

Abstract: A method and system for manufacturing a superconducting material is described. In one embodiment, a layer of refractory cushion is placed over a spool. A first layer of superconducting cable is wound over the first layer of refractory cloth. The superconducting cable is reaction heat-treated on the spool. A first layer of refractory fabric can be placed over the layer of refractory cushion. One or more adjustment mechanisms can be disposed between the first layer of the superconducting cable and the spool.

Abstract: A cathode for a seawater battery and a method for making the cathode are disclosed. The cathode is made using a mixture of copper sulfate monohydrate and anhydrous copper sulfate at a mass percentage of 70-92%, conductive carbon powder at a mass percentage of 1-10%, conductive carbon fiber at a mass percentage of 1-10%, polyethylene PE powder at a mass percentage of 3-15%, and polyethylene wax at a mass percentage of 3-12%; and using metal titanium sheet or nickel sheet as a current collecting electrode. The cathode prevents the battery from the problems of slow activation when meeting water and of inferior output in fresh water.

Abstract: Methods and devices involving 2212 multifilament superconducting wire with resistance sleeves. More specifically, methods and devices including high resistance sleeves around individual, unmerged filaments or filament bundles, with axial twist, and with round or rectangular wire shape for lower losses in and ramped fields.

Abstract: A method of winding a conductor in double pancake, including a first pancake and a second pancake, a reel initially containing the conductor, the method including: a first step in which the reel is placed on a tensioner and a first portion of the conductor is wound around a storage volume; a second step in which a first part of the conductor is inserted in a winding mandrel to change the layer; a third step in which a second portion of the conductor is wound around a first part of the storage volume so as to form a first pancake; a fourth step in which the first portion of the conductor is unwound from the storage volume and is wound around the reel; and a fifth step in which the first portion of the conductor is wound around a second part of the storage volume to form a second pancake.

Abstract: Methods and devices for producing reinforced 2212 multifilament superconducting wire with low aspect shape. More specifically, methods and devices for producing reinforced round or rectangular wire with reinforcement strips. Methods and devices for producing cable using the reinforced 2212 multifilament superconducting wire as well as for producing reinforced 2223 Silver tape-based cable.

Abstract: A configuration and a method of constructing a high-temperature superconductor tape including a plurality superconducting filaments sandwiched between a substrate and an overlayer, and having a compliant material extending between the substrate and the overlayer and isolating each superconducting filament.