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The commissioning of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility at the Center for Research in Plasma Physics in Villigen was completed in Spring 2015, and the first test of a 60-kA/12-T high-temperature superconductor (HTS) was carried out in June 2015. Use ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Quench Detection and Protection of the HTS Insert Coils

Natalia Hanna Glowa

As a result of extremely high upper critical fields B_c2, high temperature superconductors (HTS) have the potential to be used as high field insert coils in magnet systems where the background field is provided by low temperature superconductors (LTS) with ...

EPFL2016

Can Resistive-Type Fault Current Limiter Operate in Cryogen-Free Environment?

Bertrand Dutoit

Superconducting fault current limiters are unique devices that offer fast response to fault without need of an external triggering system. Therefore, they are interesting for industrial use, although their price is high. The principle of the resistive faul ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Scaling between magnetic field and temperature in the high-temperature superconductor BaFe2(As1−xP x )2

Philip Johannes Walter Moll

Many exotic metallic systems have a resistivity that varies linearly with temperature, and the physics behind this is thought to be connected to high-temperature superconductivity in the cuprates and iron pnictides1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Although this phenomeno ...

2016

Pressure-tuned Transport Properties of Novel Iron-based Superconductors and Topological Insulators

Andrea Pisoni

The majority of interactions in solids strongly depend on the interatomic distances. The application of pressure changes the lattice parameters and modifies the electronic and the phononic energy spectra of a material avoiding some of the undesirable effec ...

EPFL2016

Completion of the Commissioning of the EDIPO Test Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche, Stephen Alfred March

The main coils of the new European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility, which is able to provide a background magnetic field up to 12.35 T, were commissioned at the Center for Research in Plasma Physics in July 2013. A field homogeneity of +/-1% was achieved over ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

ITER Central Solenoid Insert Test Results

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Anton Smirnov

The ITER central solenoid (CS) is a highly stressed magnet that must provide 30 000 plasma cycles under the ITER prescribed maximum operating conditions. To verify the performance of the ITER CS conductor in conditions close to those for the ITER CS, the C ...

2016

A Rapid Response Thin-Film Plasmonic-Thermoelectric Light Detector

Giulia Tagliabue, Dimos Poulikakos

Light detection and quantification is fundamental to the functioning of a broad palette of technologies. While expensive avalanche photodiodes and superconducting bolometers are examples of detectors achieving single-photon sensitivity and time resolutions ...

2016

Performance evolution of 60kA HTS cable prototypes in the EDIPO test facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Davide Uglietti, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche

During the first test campaign of the 60 kA HTS cable prototypes in the EDIPO test facility, the feasibility of a novel HTS fusion cable concept proposed at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) was successfully demonstrated. While the measured DC performance ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

Development of HTS Conductors for Fusion Magnets

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Davide Uglietti, Rainer Wesche

In view of the development of cables for next-generation fusion reactors, research activities are carried out on all HTS materials available from industrial production. Preliminary design of a react and wind cable using Bi-2212 wires is carried out, inspir ...

2015

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