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Design and manufacture of a full size joint sample (FSJS) for the qualification of the poloidal field (PF) Insert coil

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AC loss and electrical resistance of the RW3 diffusion-bonded joint

For the European DEMO fusion reactor, several options of the Toroidal Field (TF) coil design were proposed. The winding of the TF coil option 1 is based on React&Wind (RW), Nb3Sn, graded conductors in order to optimize the amount of superconductor accordin ...

2023

Manufacture and performance test result of a 95 kA-class Nb-Ti cable-in-conduit conductor for the low field winding-package of CFETR-TF coil

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

The engineering design of the CFETR TF prototype coil and conductors has been completed. The wind-package (WP) of the coil is graded into three regions based on the magnetic field distribution for saving cost. High-Jc Nb3Sn strand, ITER-like Nb3Sn strand a ...

Elsevier2023

Pressure dependence of superconducting properties of layered BaNi2P2

Richard Gaal, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Youngro Lee

The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in a broad class of iron-based materials invoked extensive research on the corresponding compounds of other transition metals. For instance, BaNi2P2 exhibits a superconducting transition with a critical tem ...

Elsevier2023

FIB-Fabrication of Resonating Cantilevers to Explore Symmetry-Breaking in Quantum Materials

Amelia Emily-Kay Estry

Scientific progress and technological advancements on novel materials are often deterred by limitations on size and quality of samples. Materials with electronic phenomena attractive for applications, and presenting many open scientific questions, are ofte ...

EPFL2023

Ion-Selective Scattering Studied Using the Variable-Energy Electron Irradiation in the Ba0.2K0.8Fe2As2 Superconductor

Yong Liu

Low-temperature variable-energy electron irradiation was used to induce non-magnetic disorder in a single crystal of a hole-doped iron-based superconductor, Ba1-xKxFe2As2, x = 0.80. To avoid systematic errors, the beam energy was adjusted non-consequently ...

MDPI2023

ICRH assisted breakdown study on JET

Thomas Binderup Jensen, Benoît Labit, Haomin Sun

Ion cyclotron (IC) wave assisted breakdown has the potential to increase the robustness of plasma initiation during the ITER pre-fusion operation phase. Studies were performed at JET at ITER relevant loop electric field, E-loop ? 0.33 Vm(-1), and a range o ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

High-Kinetic Inductance Superconducting Technology for Quantum Applications

Simone Frasca

Superconducting materials present unique properties, which make a potential technological platform based on superconductors extremely appealing for a wide set of applications, both classical and not. Among these classes of materials, high-kinetic inductanc ...

EPFL2023

Computational design and additive manufacturing of electromagnetic coils

Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis

The modern world is heavily reliant on electromagnetic devices to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. These devices are fundamental to powering our society, and the growing need for automated production lines and electrified tr ...

EPFL2023

Progress in the design and manufacturing of the EDIPO 2 cryostat

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino, Evgeny Solodko

A major upgrade of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) test facility, which will allow the testing of superconducting samples both for fusion and for high-energy physics applications, is taking place at the Swiss Plasma Center. With a target background field of 15 ...

2023

Performance of the Cable-in-Conduit Conductors for Super-X Test Facility

Kamil Sedlák

Following the conceptual design, the engineering design of the dc magnet and cable-in-conduit conductor (CICC) for the Super-X test facility has been done in 2021. Totally three types of conductors with different structures were designed for the three pair ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2023

Analysis and Design for Medium Voltage Dual Active Bridge Converter Based on Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs

Heng Fang, Rui Lu, Chengmin Li

In this article, a series-connected SiC MOSFETs-based medium voltage (MV) dual active bridge (DAB) converter featuring a lowvoltage difference amongdevices and high efficiency is proposed. In the developed DAB converter, the zero voltage switching-on chara ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023