Showa Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd.

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Eigen Suzuki

Hachio Shiraki

Satoru Murase

Nobuo Aoki

Tomoyuki Kumano

Masamitsu Ichihara

Yoshimasa Kamisada

Yoshiyasu Koike

Makoto Yoshida

An improved multifilament superconductor is fabricated by the method in which a tin rod or tin based alloy rod is clad with a copper based alloy tube, the thus obtained copper-clad rod is further clad with a niobium based alloy tube, and a copper material is applied as a stabilizer on an outer peripheral surface of the niobium based alloy tube to form a composite. This composite is then reduced and thermally treated at a temperature ranging from 640.degree. to 770.degree. C. to thereby form an Nb.sub.3 Sn superconductor composite with a filament tube therein. At least one of the copper based alloy tube and the niobium based alloy tube contains 0.1-5.0 at. % titanium, and in addition, the tin based alloy rod may contain 0.1-3.5 at. % titanium. The tin is contained in the copper-clad rod at weight % of about 25-85, preferably 30-80 weight %.

Method of fabricating multifilament superconductors

A method of making stabilized superconductors of a composition such as Nb.sub.3 Sn is disclosed. The method includes forming a stock product comprising a tin base alloy as a core with a copper jacket and having a niobium tube clad thereon. The stock product is then embedded in a good thermally and electrically conducting matrix which is then coreduced until the desired size is obtained. This cold worked product is then submitted to a heat treatment to form superconductors of Nb.sub.3 Sn.

Method of fabricating composite superconductors

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Eigen Suzuki