Superconducting Materials for Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 August 2024 | Viewed by 19758
Special Issue Editors
Interests: magnetic materials; ceramics (ferrites and manganites); magnetic imaging; magnetic characterization
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Interests: electric characterization of superconducting tapes; magnetic characterization of superconducting bulks; AC losses in superconductor; power electronic
Interests: high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables for railway network; magnetization and characterization of HTS bulks; pulsed magnetization; multiphysics modeling; design of electrical engineering applications using HTS
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Interests: superconducting fault current limiter; superconducting motor and generator; superconducting modulization and characterization
Interests: electrical, magnetic and thermal measurements; characterization of bulks and tapes; flux trapping; magnetic shielding; AC losses
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High-temperature superconductor (HTSc) materials have left the prototype-development stage and are now approaching different types of applications in the real world. Three basic types of superconductor materials are currently produced: thin films for electronic applications, coated conductors (tapes) mainly for power applications, and bulk materials for field trapping or screening. All of these material types are still not matured, as for each type, there are several different material classes to be considered, each with quite specific parameters (transition temperature Tc, critical current density, Jc, and irreversibility fields, Hirr). Therefore, for a given application, there are several possible solutions which clearly depend on the best fit of the material’s properties to the application demands. After this decision is made, the involved material costs and the costs of the required cooling apparatus are then decisive.
The development of superconducting applications is also driven by the current environmental challenges (e.g., for all-electric aircrafts) and by political demands to become independent of short resources like rare-earth materials (e.g., the development of superconducting supermagnets).
Therefore, there are many demands on the material development, the solution of which demands interdisciplinary developments and the use of the most modern material characterization tools to enable the applications of HTSc materials in daily life.
This Special Issue therefore aims to present several new applications of HTSc materials, the specific material processing required for a given application and new analysis methods applied in the HTSc research.
Prof. Dr. Michael R. Koblischka
Prof. Dr. Douine Bruno
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kévin Berger
Prof. Dr. Leveque Jean
Prof. Dr. Philippe Vanderbemden
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Keywords
- high-temperature superconductor (HTSc) materials
- thin films for electronic applications
- coated conductors
- bulk materials for field trapping or screening
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