Superconductor technology: apparatus – material – process – Processes of producing or treating high temperature... – Process of making wire – tape – cable – coil – or fiber
Patent
1997-09-10
2000-05-30
King, Roy V.
Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process
Processes of producing or treating high temperature...
Process of making wire, tape, cable, coil, or fiber
505432, 505433, 505430, 29599, H01L 3924
Patent
active
060691166
ABSTRACT:
A novel process of the production and processing of high quality, high T.sub.c BSCCO or (Bi,Pb)SCCO superconductors starts with fabrication of a forming a bundle including a plurality of billets, each billet containing at least one filament comprising a dominant amount of an tetragonal BSCCO phase with selected intermediate phases, and substantially surrounded by a constraining metal. The bundle is thermomechanically consolidated to form a multifilamentary precursor article by applying pressure and heat to the bundle under conditions cooperatively selected to cause interdiffusion of said constraining metal at the interfaces between said metal and said filaments and substantially complete elimination of voids in said bundle, and the consolidation step is completed before any high strain longitudinal deformation is performed on the bundle. The precursor article is then heated at a second selected processing temperature in an inert atmosphere with a second selected oxygen partial pressure for a second selected time period, the second processing temperature, the second time period and the second oxygen partial pressure being cooperatively selected to form a dominant amount of an orthorhombic BSCCO phase in the reacted mixture. It may then be deformed to form an elongated precursor article of a desired texture; and thereafter heated at a third selected processing temperature in an inert atmosphere with a third selected oxygen partial pressure for a third selected time period, all cooperatively selected to convert at least a portion of the orthorhombic BSCCO phase to the final superconducting BSCCO material.
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Carter William L.
Li Qi
Masur Lawrence J.
Parker Donald R.
Parrella Ronald D.
American Superconductor Corp.
King Roy V.
Scozzafava Mary Rose
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