• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.26-31
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• 2007

In recent years. YBCO coated conductor (CC) called as second generation HTS (high temperature superconducting) wire has been developed as a suitable material for resistive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL). For designing the SFCL. the required length of superconducting wire is inverse proportional to the maximum temperature reached when a fault occurs. Since the required length strongly affects a manufacturing cost, it is the most important parameter to determine the maximum temperature reached. It is necessary to observe the repetitive over-current characteristics of HTS wire. This paper attempts to measure the variation of critical current of YBCO CC after repetitive over-current pulse. No degradation of the critical current of CC sample was observed by applying 100 times over-current pulse which makes temperature above 400 K after 100ms. This study can be useful in designing optimally resistive SFCL employing YBCO CC. The maximum permissible temperature can be set to 400K. so wire length could be reduced by 30% compared in case of 300K-criterion.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

HTS coated conductor was heat treated at high temperatures below the melting points of silver and YBCO at different oxygen partial pressures. Current carrying capacity and microstructure were varied depending on the presence of silver protection layer. Critical current of coated conductor without silver protection layer was not changed when heat treatment was performed at $850^{\circ}C$ for 2 hr in an oxygen atmosphere. However, coated conductor with silver protection layer revealed abrupt drop of $I_c$ from 140A to 8A when heat treatment was performed at $800^{\circ}C$ for 2 hr in an oxygen atmosphere. Coated conductor with silver protection layer retained $70{\sim}80$ percent of its original $I_c$ when heat treatment was performed at $800^{\circ}C$ for 2 hr in an argon atmosphere containing 1000ppm oxygen. SEM and XRD observations showed the presence of interaction between YBCO and silver depending on the atmosphere of heat treatment. The reaction between YBCO superconductor and silver was accelerated at high oxygen partial pressure and resulted in the change in microstructure and decrease of critical current density even by the heat treatment performed at temperature much lower than the melting points of silver and YBCO.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.599-600
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• 2006

Multi-slacked HTS tapes are needed to conduct large current in the power application of superconducting machine. This paper deals with the transport current loss of multi-stacked YBCO coated conductor. YBCO coated conductor that was used in this experiment has two Cu layers above and below of YBCO layer for stabilization. Transport losses of four different stacks, single, 2 stack, 3 stack and 4 stack, were measured. Measured results were compared analytic equation suggested by Norris.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2231-2232
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• 2006

Multi-stacked HTS tapes are needed to conduct large current in the power application of superconducting machine. This paper deals with the transport current loss of multi-stacked YBCO coated conductor. YBCO coated conductor that was used in this experiment has two Cu layers above and below of YBCO layer for stabilization. Transport losses of four different stacks, single, 2 stack, 3 stack and 4 stack, were measured. Measured results were compared analytic equation suggested by Norris.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.1265-1266
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• 2006

Multi-stacked HTS tapes are needed to conduct large current in the power application of superconducting machine. This paper deals with the transport current loss of multi-stacked YBCO coated conductor. YBCO coated conductor that was used in this experiment has two Cu layers above and below of YBCO layer for stabilization. Transport losses of four different stacks, single, 2 stack, 3 stack and 4 stack, were measured. Measured results were compared analytic equation suggested by Norris.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.13-16
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• 2005

Multi-stacked HTS tapes are needed to conduct large current in the power application. In this paper magnetization losses of the multi-stacked YBCO coated conductor and the BSCCO tape have been measured and compared. Magnetization losses of single tape, 2-stacked, 3-stacked and 4-stacked HTS tapes have been presented in this paper. Multi-stacked tapes have been fabricated using face-to-face type stacking method. Measurements of magnetization loss were performed under various stacked of external magnetic field to consider the anisotropic characteristics of HTS tapes. Test results show that loss density per unit volume decreased for both YBCO coated conductors and BSCCO tapes when the stacking number of tapes is increased. As the external magnetic field decreased, the ratio of decrement has risen because the full penetration magnetic field(Bp) of the multi-stacked tape is larger than that of the single tape.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10c
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• pp.95-97
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• 2005

Loss in the multi-stacked HTS wires are affected by a number of factor, such as, number of wires used in the stack, direction of external magnetic field and insulation thickness between the wire. This paper examines the effects of the insulation thickness on the magnetization loss of the multi-stacked YBCO coated conductor. Measurements of magnetization loss were performed using 4 different typo of multi-stacked wires and under various angle of external magnetic field. Test results show that loss density per unit volume increased for YBCO coated conductors when thickness of insulation increased. Loss density per unit volume decreased for YBCO coaled conductors when stacking number of tapes increased.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07c
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• pp.1725-1726
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• 2006

Multi-stacked HTS tapes are needed to conduct large current in the power application of superconducting machine. This paper deals with the transport current loss of multi-stacked YBCO coated conductor. YBCO coated conductor that was used in this experiment has two Cu layers above and below of YBCO layer for stabilization. Transport losses of four different stacks, single, 2 stack, 3 stack and 4 stack, were measured. Measured results were compared analytic equation suggested by Norris.

• 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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• v.11
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• pp.28-28
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• 2001

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.22-26
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• 2006

Total Fluorine content in the precursor solution for MOD processing of YBCO coated conductors can be significantly reduced by synthesizing precursor solution with F-free Y & Cu precursor and Barium trifluoroacetate(TFA). It was shown that crack-free and uniform precursor films were formed after calcinations in humidified oxygen atmosphere. Less than 2 hours are required to finish the calcination process, and XRD measurement shows that $BaF_2,\;CuO,\;and\;Y_2O_3$ are major constituent of calcined precursor films. Film thickness after calcination was measured to be ${\sim}2.8$ um by applying slot-die coating method. In particular, addition of Samarium shows critical current of Ic=226 A/cm-w($Jc=3.4\;MA/cm^2$). Also discussed are recent developments in the reel-to-reel processing using F-free Y & Cu precursor solutions. It is shown that uniform and fast processing route to YBCO coated conductor with high Ic can be provided by employing F-free Y & Cu precursor solutions in MOD process.