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Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Gmbh

Milan Polak

Paul N Barnes

Chakrapani Varanasi

Wolfgang Schauer

Heinz-Peter Schiller

Hans Reiner

Kai Grube

An AC-tolerant high temperature superconductor tape with transposed filaments having two layers of high temperature superconducting material with striations and corresponding filaments and an insulating layer positioned therebetween.

AC-tolerant HTS coated conductor with transposed filaments

A method and apparatus employs Hall probes for contactless, longitudinal and transversal homogeneity examination of a critical current density j.sub.c in a superconductor tape that is cooled to below a transition temperature T.sub.c. The cooled superconductor tape is pulled through an external, locally limited magnetic field that has a constant gradient and a fixed magnetic field axis. The magnetic field generated by a screening current induced in a region of the superconductor tape penetrated by the external magnetic field is scanned using a first Hall probe at a distance of a few tenths of millimeters to the superconductor tape. The external magnetic field outside of a field range of the induced persistent currents is measured with a second Hall probe. A compensated difference between the first and second Hall probe signals is used as a qualitative measure for a critical current density j.sub.c (x) and its longitudinal homogeneity which varies locally with respect to a longitudinal axis of the superconductor tape. The compensated difference is formed by adjusting a test difference between the two Hall probe signals to zero as a result of measuring the external magnetic field by both Hall probes in a dummy measurement conducted without the superconductor tape. A transverse homogeneity with a linear Hall probe array that is positioned crosswise to the longitudinal axis of the superconductor tape and extends broadside over the superconductor tape is measured after all Hall probes in the array have first been adjusted to zero with a signal from the second probe. Quantitative locally critical current densities are specified from the Hall probe signals by a resistive calibration obtained from a current-voltage measurement.

Method and measuring apparatus for a contactless longitudinal and

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Milan Polak