• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.49-53
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• 1999

We fabricated a resistive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) with a shunt resistor in order to bypass the transient current at faults. The SFCL consists of a YBCO films coated with an Au layer (10$\Omega$ at room temperature). which is to disperse the heat generated at hot spots in the YBCO films, and a 5$\Omega$ shunt resistor. The minimum quench current of the SFCL was found to be 12.2Apeak. This SFCL successfully controlled the fault current to below 23 Apeak. Which is otherwise to increase up to 103 Apeak. With the shunt resistor, the temperature of the SFCL rose the temperature of the SFCL rose three times slower than without the shunt, whereby the SFCL is protected at high currents.