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Description
High-temperature superconductors have developed over 30 years to the point that manufacturerscan now produce kilometre lengths of wire. Nevertheless, it is recognised that wire performanceremains far below fundamental limits and a quantitative understanding of this has not yet emerged.We propose to advance the quantitative understanding of the relationship between materialmicrostructure and performance by using ion irradiation to introduce nanoscale columnar defectsinto the wire. Defects of appropriate dimensions are required to provide the flux pinning thatsupports supercurrents at practical levels and columnar damage tracks produced by ion irradiationare near ideal in this respect.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 1/01/19 → 31/12/22 |
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