A STUDY OF JOINING AG BSCCO SUPERCONDUCTING TAPES/

A superconducting joint between Ag/BSCCO tapes has been fabricated by using a combination of etching, pressing and annealing techniques. The joined area, fabricated with a load of 10 ton, showed 80% current car rying capacity of the tapes without join-interface. I-c of the joined area in the low-field region drops more quickly with magnetic field th an the unjoined area. It is considered that the lower magnetic resisti vity of I-c and I-c degradation in the joined area resulted from the h eterogeneous deformation in the joined area. The joined area was mecha nically weak.