Abstract
High-temperature superconductors (HTS) could enable high-field magnets stronger than is possible with Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn, but two challenges have so far been the low engineering critical current density JE, especially in high-current cables, and the danger of quenches. Most HTS magnets made so far have been made out of REBCO coated conductor. Here we demonstrate stable, reliable and training-quench-free performance of Bi-2212 racetrack coils wound with a Rutherford cable fabricated from wires made with a new precursor powder. These round multifilamentary wires exhibited a record JE up to 950 A/mm2 at 30 T at 4.2 K. These coils carried up to 8.6 kA while generating 3.5 T at 4.2 K at a JE of 1020 A/mm2. Different from the unpredictable training performance of Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets, these Bi-2212 magnets showed no training quenches and entered the flux flow state in a stable manner before thermal runaway and quench occurred. Also different from Nb-Ti, Nb3Sn, and REBCO magnets for which localized thermal runaways occur at unpredictable locations, the quenches of Bi-2212 magnets consistently occurred in the high field regions over a long conductor length. These characteristics make quench detection simple, enabling safe protection, and suggest a new paradigm of constructing quench-predictable superconducting magnets from Bi-2212.
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Introduction
High field superconducting magnets are used in particle colliders1, fusion energy devices2, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ion beam cancer therapy3, as well as thousands of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and general laboratory magnets. So far, virtually all superconducting magnets have been made from two Nb-based low temperature superconductors (Nb-Ti with superconducting transition temperature Tc of 9.2 K and Nb3Sn with Tc of 18.3 K). The 8.33 T Nb-Ti accelerator dipole magnets of the large hadron collider (LHC) at CERN enabled the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the ongoing search for physics beyond the standard model of high energy physics. Nb3Sn magnets are key to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Tokamak and to the high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC4 that aims to increase the luminosity by a factor of 5–10.
Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets predominately work at 1.8–5 K, generating magnetic fields seldom greater than 20 T. The superconducting magnet community has long sought to broaden the superconducting application space to higher fields at low temperatures (4.2–20 K) or higher temperatures (20–77 K) using high-temperature superconductors (HTS)5. Cuprate superconductors, discovered in the 1980s, and iron-based superconductors, discovered about 10 years ago, both have upper critical magnetic fields (Hc2) exceeding 50 T at 4.2 K6,7,8, much greater than that of Nb-Ti (~14 T at 1.8 K) and Nb3Sn (~26–27 T at 1.8 K), making them potentially useful for making much stronger high-field magnets9, like the 30 T superconducting solenoids needed for 1.3 GHz NMR spectrometers10 and 20 T accelerator dipoles for a potential high-energy upgrade of the LHC11. Significant progress has been made, particularly in solenoids made of REBa2Cu3Ox (REBCO), culminating in a 32 T user solenoid recently constructed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL)9,12. After three decades of arduous conductor development, high-temperature cuprate superconducting conductors, including Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox (Bi-2212)13, (Bi,Pb)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox (Bi-2223)14, and REBCO9, are being commercially produced in practical forms of metal/superconductor composite conductors in lengths suitable for making magnets, though long-length REBCO tapes often have localized processing defects15. These materials can deliver high critical current density in strong magnetic fields at 4.2 K or 1.8 K above 23 T, where the Jc of Nb3Sn wires ceases to be useful.
All superconducting magnets are susceptible to quench16,17 when local regions lose superconductivity, producing hot spots with rapidly rising temperature that may, without suitable protection, lead to local degradation or burnout. An important drawback of Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn superconducting magnets is their low thermal stability against quench. Tiny, transient point disturbances as small as 10−6 J from conductor motion are very common due to the large thermal and electromagnetic stresses and they can cause localized temperature rises sufficiently large to initiate quench of the whole magnet. The small thermal margin of Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn and their low heat capacity below Tc give them little protection against such energy inputs. To overcome such instabilities, the main-ring LHC Nb-Ti dipole and quadrupole magnets are cooled by 1.8 K superfluid helium that penetrates into the windings, where it acts both as a powerful coolant due to its high thermal conductivity and a thermal stabilizer due to the very high specific heat of superfluid He which is much higher than that of the oxygen-free-high-conductivity copper (OFHC) that thermally stabilizes and protects the Nb-Ti cable during quench. The quench problem is also a costly and still unsolved issue for the Nb3Sn magnets being considered for future high-energy proton colliders and a high-energy upgrade of the LHC, in spite of its Tc being twice that of Nb-Ti (18 versus 9 K). The reason is that Nb3Sn windings cannot be permeated with superfluid helium because they must be epoxy-impregnated to protect them against the large crushing forces in the magnets. Epoxy-impregnated magnets generally experience epoxy cracking and interfacial shearing and debonding and the poor winding thermal conductivity and energy disturbances produced by such cracking often results in long quench training, currently as many as 20–30 quenches for the HL-LHC Nb3Sn quadrupole magnets18. Such training results in significant helium loss and high labor costs, significant drawbacks in considering future high-energy proton-proton colliders that need thousands of such magnets.
Due to their much higher Tc and Hc2, HTS magnets have much higher enthalpy stability margin against quench, making quench less likely though this remains to be proved experimentally, especially for accelerator magnets19. Despite frequent Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnet quenches, protection during quench is generally not an issue because quench propagation velocities are rapid and the stored magnetic energies can be safely dissipated over large volumes of the coil or transferred to an external protection circuit. By such methods, even magnets with wire engineering (i.e. whole wire) current density JE of 1000 A/mm2 have rarely been damaged. However, the paradox for HTS magnets is that, when quench does occur, it is a much bigger threat than in LTS magnets because normal zones are smaller, quench velocities much smaller, with the consequence of much higher energy density in much smaller normal zones. Several REBCO and Bi-2223 magnet systems have been degraded during quench20,21,22,23,24,25,26, likely when small normal zones generated too little voltage for warning, making active quench protection unable to prevent local overheating as magnetic energy turned into very localized heating. A key challenge of HTS magnets is thus the timely detection of small hot spots that grow only at several cm/s, rather than the two orders of magnitude larger rate in Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets.
All of these concerns are very much reduced in the Bi-2212 magnets described here, even though they were quenched at a new record, high wire current density JE of up to 1000 A/mm2. Greatly assisting this performance is the use of a rather uniform, isotropic, multifilamentary HTS Bi-2212 round wire13 Rutherford cable, a flat two layer cable simple and cheap to produce and featured with wires twisted and transposed to minimize field errors and AC losses1. The isotropic round-wire architecture means that winding high-homogeneity coils such as those needed for NMR is much easier and the magnetization induced in low-field regions of the windings is much less troublesome than is the case for tape conductors13. We experimentally demonstrate quench-training-free operation of epoxy-impregnated racetrack coils at currents above 8 kA, values that exceed the benchmark current and JE values needed for demanding high-energy physics collider magnets. We explain how and why quench can be managed with Bi-2212 and further suggest a new paradigm of constructing quench-predictable superconducting magnets from Bi-2212, for which quench locations are known and quench current can be predicted with simple measurements without occurrence of thermal runways.
Methods
Wire and cable design and fabrication
A 440 m long, 0.8 mm diameter Bi-2212 round wire was fabricated by Bruker OST LLC by their standard powder-in-tube technique using a novel precursor Bi-2212 powder made at nGimat LLC by a nano-spray combustion technology. This new powder appears to eclipse the earlier industrial benchmark Bi-2212 powder made by the melt-casting approach at Nexans27. The wire has an architecture of 55 × 18 (18 bundles of 55 filaments). The Bi-2212 filling factor of the as-drawn wire is ~25% and porosity occupies roughly 30% of the filament cross-section as delivered. The matrix Ag surrounding the filaments has a very high electrical conductivity as judged by a resistance ratio >100 and very high thermal conductivity28,29. 17-strand Rutherford cables were made at LBNL with a width of 7.8 mm and a thickness of 1.44 mm. The cable insulation was a braided mullite sleeve with a wall thickness of ~150 μm.
Coil design, fabrication, and test
Two 2-layer, 6-turns per layer subscale racetrack coils (RC5 and RC6) without any internal joints using 8 m long Rutherford cables with 140 m of 0.8 mm wire in each cable were wound on an Inconel 600 pole island. Each coil was assembled inside an Inconel 600 structure of side bars and top and bottom plates and then heat treated by an overpressure processing heat treatment (OPHT) technology at the NHMFL with a gas pressure of 50 bar in flowing Ar/O2 (oxygen partial pressure PO2 = 1 bar). OPHT removes most of the starting porosity in the wire, increasing the filament density to >95%. The coil and its reaction structure weighs ~8 kg and measures 37 cm × 12 cm × 3.1 cm. After reaction, the coil was instrumented with voltage taps on each turn, and impregnated with epoxy resin (RC5 used the rather brittle CTD 101 K epoxy adopted for High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) Nb3Sn magnets, while the more fracture-resistant NHMFL “mix-61” epoxy, developed for the large-bore 900 MHz NMR magnet was used for RC6).
The coils were tested inside their Inconel reaction structure. They were powered with a 20 V, 24 kA DC power supply, while the terminal voltages were monitored using a fast, FPGA-based quench detection system. FPGA (field-programmable gate array) technology provides the reliability of dedicated hardware circuitry, true parallel execution, and deterministic closed-loop control performance at fast loop rates with no operating system. Upon detecting a quench, the FPGA board sent commands to open a SCR electrical switch that inserted a room temperature dump resistor (20 mΩ) across the coils, forcing the magnet current to decay to zero within <10 ms. The magnet voltage was recorded using a 18-bit ADC system with a programmable isolation amplifier and a flexible, software-controlled measurement range that could be set from ±0.1 mV to ±5 V at both 10 Hz and 1 kHz.
Results
The high critical current density of these Bi-2212 wires
The 4.2 K wire current density JE of the optimally processed strand used in this study is shown in Fig. 127. JE is greater than that of the HL-LHC Rod Restack Process (RRP®) Nb3Sn strand above 11 T and it also has a much less field-sensitive characteristic, achieving 1365 A/mm2 at 15 T, twice the target desired by the Future Circular Collider (FCC) for Nb3Sn strands30, and 1000 A/mm2 at 27 T, 65% better than the previous record Bi-2212 performance31.
Quench performance of the coils
Ramping up the current of any superconducting magnet eventually leads to a quench, and this was no different for RC5 and RC6. The coil voltages of RC5 and RC6 shown in Fig. 2 exhibit characteristic quench behavior, with V13 (the whole coil terminal voltage) and V12 (one half of the coil) going positive due to one half coil entering the dissipative state first, while V23 (the second half the coil) trends negative due to its inductive response to the growing normal zone in coil 1. Despite the small coil inductance (~35 μH), the voltage noise is on the order of mV, making it difficult to set the quench detection voltage to be less than 10 mV.
The quench current of RC5 and RC6 actually increased slightly on raising dI/dt from 30 A/s to 200 A/s (Fig. 3) and they exhibited no quench training at all. Iq remained nearly unchanged (average current = 8604 A, standard deviation = 4.1 A for RC6) during consecutive quenches and after thermal cycling to room temperature and back to 4.2 K (Fig. 4) (Iq did drop about ~0.5% after the thermal cycling to 4.2 K but remained unchanged throughout the second test. No second thermal cycling test was performed).
To examine the nature of the RC5 and RC6 quenches, the magnets were powered up using a staircase scheme, during which the coil current was periodically held constant so as to zero inductive voltages, minimize noise and allow the maximum insight into dissipation within the coils. The terminal and turn-to-turn voltages of RC5 (Fig. 5) show that several turns had started to dissipate before the terminal voltage V13 exceeded 0.1 V, which indicates that quench was triggered by a significant length of cable entering the dissipative state, rather than being triggered by point disturbances as is generally the case for Nb3Sn magnets. The signals taken during stable-current portions of the staircase ramp show that resistive voltage signals became visible at 7000 A well below the >8000 A of Iq and that they steadily increased with increasing current. From t = 447 s to t = 507 s, the current was held at 7925 A and the resistive voltage of the ramp turn (a 14 cm long section that transitions between the two coil layers in the peak field region. See Fig. 5c) was 3.6 μV, generating a steady joule heating of 28.5 mW. The total heat input during this hold from 447 to 507 s was ~1.71 J, which, though significant, did not cause the coil to quench. When the coil current was raised and held at 8130 A, the resistive voltage of the ramp turn was 9.4 μV and the joule heating 76.4 mW, which caused a thermal runaway in less than 4 seconds. Such a high thermal stability is in strong contrast to the instability that characterizes Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets, for which a disturbance as small as 1 μJ is sufficient to cause the coil to quench.
Voltage development of RC5 for staircase ramps of the magnet current that ended with thermal runaway and energy extraction by switching in a dump resistor. The current ramp scheme contains current holding steps during which coil inductive signals die away and noise is much reduced (a). The coil and turn-to-turn voltages are shown in (b and d), respectively. The ramp turn voltage is highlighted in (c). The ramp turn is a 14 cm long section that transitions between the two coil layers in the peak field region. In (d), L1-T1 means the turn #1 of the coil layer #1 (other turns follow the same naming method.) and it is the outermost turn in the low field region. The voltage tap length of turns decreases from 62 cm for L1-T1 and L2-T1 gradually to 52 cm for L1-T6 and L2-T6.
The global superconducting-normal transition: Coil E-I curve and I c
Figure 6 plots the E-I curve of RC5 and RC6, where the electric field E is derived from the resistive signals during the current-hold parts of the staircase current ramps when the inductive ramping signals were absent. Figure 6 suggests that the resistive signals were driven by usual power law resistive transition losses (V ~ In, where n is 20–30) during the smooth transition of the Bi-2212 cable from the superconducting to the normal state. The critical current Ic, defined at an electric field criterion of 0.1 μV/cm, was 7550 A for RC5 and 7750 A for RC6. The n-values determined by the power law fitting the E-I curve were 22 for RC5 and 24 for RC6, values very similar to those obtained in short single wire samples. This speaks to the excellent uniformity and current sharing of the Rutherford cables used in these two magnets.
Discussion
The baseline magnet technology for future high energy proton colliders is the 12–16 T wind-and-react, epoxy-impregnated Nb3Sn magnets with lengthy and costly training. An important and novel outcome of this work is experimental demonstration of quench-training-free operations of epoxy-impregnated Bi-2212 magnets at the very high current density of 1000 A/mm2. This performance provided a proof-of-principle that Bi-2212 should be considered for the 16–20 T accelerator magnet technology for future colliders. It is very important that neither RC5 nor RC6 quenched as a result of transient, tiny, and localized disturbances that normally give early and unpredictable quenches below Ic for Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets. Stable operation in the dissipative state was observed in RC5 and RC6, three other impregnated coils RC1 (wax), RC2 (brittle CTD-101K epoxy), and RC3 (NHMFL mix-61 tough epoxy)32, and coils made from Bi-2212 tapes33. Another sign of the great stability of RC5 and RC6 is the insensitivity of their quench current to ramp rate; Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn accelerator magnets exhibit a well-known behavior of Iq decreasing with increasing ramp rate due to low stability against increased AC losses and transient disturbances. Indeed, this difference can be explained by the theory that these Bi-2212 magnets quenched due to continuous joule heating when the cable current approached the natural transition of the cable from the fully superconducting to the partially dissipative state of the critical current transition.
A vital concern for any HTS magnet is the need to detect quench so that active protection can be triggered. The greatest danger is localized thermal runaway at unexpected locations. Long quench training of Nb3Sn magnets is a cumbersome and costly problem but it seldom risks coil loss. In contrast, failing to detect a quench in a much more stable HTS magnet puts the HTS magnet in great danger because the dissipative zones propagate only slowly and overheat quickly. At the very high wire current density of 1000 A/mm2 safely demonstrated in these Bi-2212 racetrack magnets, hot spot temperatures can rise at hundreds of K/s, thus making rapid (<10 ms) detection and rapid switching of the dump resistor vital to a safe quench without magnet burnout. The state-of-the-art quench detection for Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets relies on fast (>10 k-samples/s) but low precision (mV resolution) voltage measurements to define a typical threshold in the range of 100 mV to several volts. Due to the fast quench propagation velocities (typically 10 m/s for Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets), 100 mV develops across growing normal zones in a negligible 0.1 ms. By contrast, at the typical 1 cm/s quench velocities of HTS conductors, resistive voltages across a localized hot spot increase at less than 0.1 mV within 0.1 ms. Most HTS magnets made so far have been made out of REBCO coated conductor. Important concerns with REBCO conductors, despite their high stability, are that they contain localized defects either pre-existing15 or created during coil winding or during magnet operation21, that their critical current is anisotropic in magnetic field, and that this anisotropy depends on flux pinning and therefore REBCO processing conditions; these uncertainties mean that quench is often localized, unpredictable, and unexpected20,21,22,26. This is illustrated by a single-layer coil wound from a 2 m long REBCO single tape (2 mm wide, 100 μm in thickness with 40 μm Cu) with a uniform Ic distribution at 77 K (mean = 60 A, standard deviation = 2 A). At 4.2 K (in liquid He) and 14 T (field parallel to tape surface) while carrying a current of 490 A, this coil exhibited a terminal voltage of 90 μV but 90% of such voltage drop was across a lowest Ic, 3.3 cm section (Ic = 464 A, n-value = 51); increasing current above 490 A resulted in a localized thermal runway and coil damage. In spite of these dangers, the default quench detection method for REBCO magnets is still a voltage measurement in the mV range with a control limit of several or tens of mV20,21,22,23,24. It is thus no surprise that many REBCO magnets have been damaged during quench.
An important advantage of Bi-2212 coils revealed by this work is that their quench is non-localized. Several meters of the Bi-2212 cable in the high field region developed stable voltages (tens to hundreds of μV) well before thermal runaway and they then enter thermal runaway nearly simultaneously, as observed in RC1, RC2, and RC332 and a single-strand (140 m long), epoxy impregnated Bi-2212 solenoid tested in a background field of 14 T34. The non-localized quench nature of these Bi-2212 coils is due to the uniqueness of Bi-2212 as a round, isotropic multifilament HTS wire, now available in km-lengths with excellent current sharing in classic Bi-2212 Rutherford cables, and its smooth superconducting to normal state transition evidenced by a n-value of <25 (Fig. 6)). By contrast, REBCO strands are monofilaments with many localized defects15 and do not carry current uniformly due to their large critical current anisotropy and large screening current effects, but exhibit a large n-value of 35–50 at 4 K.
Another key understanding revealed in this letter is that quench locations of Bi-2212 magnets are predictable. Unlike Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets that do not always quench in their high field regions due to their vulnerability to random point disturbances, and unlike REBCO magnets that do not always quench in the high field regions due to localized defects and their large temperature-dependent anisotropy, a stable transition is observable before quench for Bi-2212 magnets and they consistently enter into thermal runaway in their high field regions, where quench is expected. An important technological consequence is that standalone Bi-2212 magnets may be made quench-free, since their operation margins can be understood quantitatively by measuring the rise of resistive voltage in the high field region with a staircase current ramp with an accuracy of 0.1 μV without occurrence of thermal runway.
Our work therefore shows why and how quenches can be detected for Bi-2212 magnets. Its >20 T high-field magnet applications are most likely going to be hybrid ones with a background magnetic field provided by Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn outsert magnets. Through magnetic coupling quench of Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets would trigger the HTS magnet to quench. In the case of the Nb-Ti/Nb3Sn/REBCO 32 T magnet12, the inner 17 T, 34 mm bore, ~100 kg REBCO magnet is powered with an independent power supply circuit and has to be protected with a total heater energy of 160 kJ, supplied by a high voltage battery system, in comparison to 300 J for active protection of the outsert 1400 kg, 15 T, 250 mm bore Nb-Ti/Nb3Sn magnet9,35,36. Bi-2212 presents a feasible path to developing commercial, more user-friendly 25–30 T solenoid systems than the 32 T magnet. Being a round wire with a flexible diameter and current-carrying capability, Bi-2212 inserts can be placed in electrical series with the background Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn magnets, so that the quench protection of such system can be much simpler.
We finally emphasize that the stable and safe quench performance described here was obtained on wires with the very high wire critical current density of 1000 A/mm2, current densities well above those required for efficient dipole magnet design. We emphasize that even higher wire current densities of 1800 A/mm2 at 5 T and 4.2 K and 1000 A/mm2 at 27 T and 4.2 K are available from short-samples of these wires13,31. As usual, there is a gap between magnet and best short sample performance, but it is important to note that recent Bi-2212 conductor improvement has passed into the magnets too. The quench current of RC6 is 8.6 kA, whereas the best performance coil RC2 made with previous generation wires13 using Nexans granulate powder had Iq of 5.7 kA32. Bi-2212 cables have leapt beyond the benchmark wire JE needed by high-energy physics particle collider magnets, typically made of Rutherford cables with an average cable current density 400–750 A/mm2 and a wire JE of 600–1000 A/mm2. Bi-2212 wires now enable such current densities for 20-T class dipoles. The breakthrough was made possible by better powders made by a combustion chemical vapor condensation37,38,39, which eclipse the previous melt-cast40, aerosol spray pyrolysis and liquid co-precipitation powders13,32. Now it appears that highly homogeneous, 100–500 nm powders with excellent composition control (+/−2% for Ca and +/−1% for others), a low impurity level, and a low risk of powder agglomeration can be made. Such powders enable uniform drawing of wires with fine superconductor filaments (10–20 μm in diameter) by the powder-in-tube method.
Conclusions
We have demonstrated that the exceptionally high wire current density of 1000 A/mm2 can be reached in an HTS Bi-2212 magnet and that the onset of thermal runaway is nonlocalized, enabling safe protection against quench. Quenches consistently occurred in the high field regions and exhibited a highly uniform resistive transition of the cable that permits detection of the resistive transition voltages well before quench. This high wire current density was made possible by a new nanospray combustion powder technology37,38,39. The feasible quench detection and possible quench-free operation for standalone Bi-2212 magnets enables magnet use of the unique characteristics so far only found in Bi-2212, a combination of high stability that comes with high-Tc cuprate superconductors, isotropic behavior due to the round, multifilamentary wire architecture, and the ability to produce long wires and cables with high uniformity and current sharing. With these capabilities, Bi-2212 has taken a huge step towards practical applications such as user-friendly, 25–30 T class solenoid research magnets41, 20-T class, canted cosine theta geometry42,43, accelerator magnets useful for future high-energy colliders, including a high-energy LHC upgrade, and >1.3 GHz NMR magnets due to Bi-2212 being the only isotropic, multifilamentary HTS round wire that permits high magnetic field quality.
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Work at LBNL was supported by the Director, Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Work at the NHMFL was supported by the US DOE Office of High Energy Physics (OHEP) under grant number DE-SC0010421, by the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R21GM111302, and by the NHMFL, which was supported by the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers DMR-1157490 and DMR-1644779, and by the State of Florida. Work at Bruker OST and nGimat was supported by the U.S. DOE OHEP through a SBIR award DE-SC0009705. This work was amplified by the U.S. Magnet Development Program (MDP). T.S. acknowledges support from the U.S. DOE Early Career Research Program, K.Z. acknowledges support from the China Scholarship Council, and D.D. acknowledges support from the U.S. DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program. We thank colleagues, in particular Daniel Dietderich, Laura Garcia Fajardo, Maxim Marchevsky, Andy Lin, Ian Pong, Emmanuele Ravaioli, Jordan Taylor, Xiaorong Wang, Charles Lamar English, George Miller, for technical support, and Aixia Xu for discussions.
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T.S., D.L., S.G. and S.P. planned the research and T.S. supervised the research. M.W. and A.H. fabricated the powder, Y.H., H.M. and J.P. fabricated the wire, J.J. characterized the short samples, H.H. and T.S. fabricated the cable and wound the coils, E.B., U.T. and E.H. performed the heat treatment of the coils, and T.S. K.Z., D.D. and M.T. performed the high current coil measurement. T.S., D.L. and S.G. contributed to the discussion and interpretation of the results. T.S. and D.L. took the lead in preparing the paper.
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Shen, T., Bosque, E., Davis, D. et al. Stable, predictable and training-free operation of superconducting Bi-2212 Rutherford cable racetrack coils at the wire current density of 1000 A/mm2. Sci Rep 9, 10170 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46629-3
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