Abstract

Striation and selective electroplating of copper stabilizer layer has been proven to be an effective way of reducing the hysteretic AC loss of second generation high temperature superconducting (2G-HTS) tapes. This method consists of a top down laser material removal (ablation) followed by post-oxygenation to create resistive oxide layer on the grooves and selective electroplating of a thick Cu stabilizer layer on the filaments. In such a filamentization technique, scalability, the degree of coupling loss contribution and critical current (I c ) degradations are the main concerns. In this study, we have investigated the post-oxygenation temperature effect on the I c degradation and coupling loss contribution. The results showed that post-oxygenation temperature has immense effect on the I c degradation and also alters the coupling loss contribution to the total magnetization AC losses. The coupling loss contribution was found to be less in samples oxygenated at higher temperatures; however, the degradation of I c was found to be higher. In addition, preliminary experiments were conducted to scale-up this newly-developed technique. Initially, 10 m long fully-filamentized tape with thick Cu stabilizer layer was fabricated and at least 5 times reduction in AC loss was observed.

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