Test results of a 10 kA current lead using Ag/Au cladded Bi-2212 tubes

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The finite element method has been employed in order to simulate the behaviour of a HTS cable for transport current applications. The E-J model includes an anisotropic dependence of the critical current density Jc and power index n on the local magnetic field, whose magnitude is non-negligible and determines the effective critical current of the cable. The cable consists of four electrically insulated layers, each of them composed by 20 superconducting tapes, providing a total critical current of about 4 kA

The extreme shaping capabilities of the TCV tokamak have been used to investigate the effect of plasma geometry on the confinement of non-recycling trace impurities injected by means of the laser blow-off technique. The progression of the injected silicon in the core of TCV Ohmic limiter plasmas was followed by the 200-channel soft x-ray (SXR) photodiode array with good spatial and temporal resolution. The results show that the plasma triangularity and elongation play an important role in the impurity confi

The electron cyclotron heating (ECH) system in TCV has recently been upgraded to a total of 4.5 MW of installed power. In order to extend the density range of ECH-heated plasmas up to electron densities of 1.2 x 10(20) m(-3), three 0.5 MW gyrotrons at a frequency of 118 GHz have been added to the existing 3 MW second harmonic system operating at a frequency of 82.7 GHz. The launcher consists of a mirror placed at the top of the vessel that collects the power of the three microwave sources and can be steered

Recent experiments in the Joint European Torus (JET) have provided evidence of sawtooth stabilization by fast ions arising from deuterium neutral beam injection (NBI). A possible theoretical basis for the interpretation of the observed sawtooth period behaviour is investigated and predictions are compared with experimental results, using a sawtooth period model developed to predict the sawtooth period in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Unlike the case of ion cyclotron resonance

We use a pulsed laser deposition (PLD) setup to grow ultra-thin films of high temperature superconductors (HTSC) and transfer them in-situ into a photoemission chamber. Photoemission measurements on such films allow us to study noncleavable materials, but can also give insights into aspects never measured before, like the influence of strain on the low energy electronic structure. Systematic studies of many different materials grown as films showed that Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x, Bi2Sr2Cu1O6+x, Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3O10+x, and

Sawtooth inversion radii and profile peaking factors of a large variety of ohmic and ECH heated L mode plasmas, including, elongations up to 2.6 and triangularities between -0.5 and 0.75, have been investigated in the TCV tokamak. In ohmic plasmas, normalized inversion radii and electron temperature profile peaking factors (corrected for sawtoothing effects) depend solely on the parameter (j)/q(0)j(0), irrespective of plasma shape. With ECH this parameter remains the main scaling parameter. Density profiles

Neoclassical transport and a particle confinement are analysed for three 3-D reactor designs-the QAS3, the ST/sphellamak hybrid and the sphellamak-using the VENUS code. It is observed that neither the QAS3 nor the ST/sphellamak is truly aquasi-axisymmetric configuration. Thus the transport is governed by the helical deformation of the magnetic Field strength, and these configurations do not effectively confine the trapped a particles. On the other hand, the sphellamak is a nearly isodynamic structure in the

A small component of ECCD exists when heating off-axis with no toroidal injection due to the field helicity. The sign of the ECCD will change depending on the absorption location in a poloidal plane, the beam injection relative to delB(vac), and the direction of the toroidal magnetic field. The importance of the ECCD component can be confirmed by the behavior of the sawteeth when the ECH deposition crosses the q=1 surface. The sawtooth period is very sensitive to the local shear at q=1 and it is shown that

The nonlinear behavior of High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) is often modeled by an E-J power law in order to describe their electromagnetic properties. This paper presents AC loss calculations in HTS tapes, performed by means of FEM commercial software using the A-V method. The implemented nonlinear model of the HTS tapes takes into account the B-dependence of the critical current density Jc and the power index n. The expressions for Jc(B) and n(B) are obtained from electrical measurements of a Bi-2223

The evolution of superconductors for fusion research is introduced with a review of a few relevant milestones of the last 25 years. The cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) are the most promising option for future fusion devices. The design aspects and test results of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) CICCs and joints in SUpraLeiterTestANlage (SULTAN) are discussed paying special attention to the interstrand resistance, current redistribution, transient stability and hydraulic behavi

We used a pump-probe technique to measure the transient change of optical reflectivity of both La2-xSrxCuO4, of various dopings, and slightly underdoped YBa2Cu3O7-x and NdBa2Cu3O7-x thin films. For the La2-xSrxCuO4 films, our data demonstrate the coexistence, in the superconducting state, of two coupled subsystems with different relaxation times and different contributions to the optical reflectivity. One subsystem is associated with the superconducting phase. By contrast. the data from YBa2Cu3O7-x, and NdB

The European Home Team is responsible for the design, the fabrication and the test of the Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), Within this task, three full size samples had to be fabricated by industry and to be tested in the SULTAN facility (Villigen, Switzerland). Each sample is composed of two parallel straight bars of full-size conductor, connected at bottom through a joint. This paper reports on the test results and analysis of the first two s

Test results of a 10 kA current lead using Ag/Au cladded Bi-2212 tubes

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Numerical Modelling of a HTS Cable

Effects of plasma shape on laser blow-off injected impurity transport in TCV

Preliminary results of top launch third harmonic X-mode electron cyclotron heating in the TCV tokamak

Neutral beam stabilization of sawtooth oscillations in JET

Electronic properties of high temperature superconducting thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

Shape dependence of sawtooth inversion radii and profile peaking factors in TCV L mode plasmas

Neoclassical transport and alpha particle confinement in novel 3-D reactor systems

Poloidally asymmetric plasma response with ECH deposition near q=1 in TCV

Finite element method simulation of ac loss in HTS tapes with B-dependent E-J power law

Superconductors and joints, tests and trends for future development

Evidence for two coupled subsystems in the superconducting state of La2-xSrxCuO4

Test results and analysis of two European full-size conductor samples for ITER