| The discovery of high temperature superconductors (HTS) in 1986 by two IBM scientists led to an unprecedented explosion of research and development efforts world-wide because of the significant potential for practical applications offered by these materials. However, the early euphoria created by the exciting prospects was dampened by the daunting task of fabricating these materials into useful forms with acceptable superconducting properties. Progress towards this goal has been hindered by many intrinsic materials problems, such as weak-links, flux-creep, and poor mechanical properties.
For second generation high-temperature superconducting (HTS) coated conductors, there are vigorous programs among various institutions and consortia to develop long lengths of high-quality superconducting tapes using cost efficient manufacturing techniques. These efforts are exciting in that there are a large variety of competing methodologies being investigated for fabricating these conductors in a cost-effective fashion. |
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