Jw. Lue et al., STABILITY MEASUREMENTS ON A 1-T HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNET, IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity, 5(2), 1995, pp. 230-233
A high temperature superconducting magnet based on Bi-2223 conductor w
as built at the American Superconductor Corporation. The magnet was co
nstructed by a react and wind technique using conductors made from a m
etallic precursor process. It has a winding ID of 25.4 mm, OD of 87.6
mm, and height of 107.3 mm. A heater, two thermometers, and several vo
ltage taps were built into the high field region of the magnet for sta
bility measurements. The magnet generates 1.1 T central field at 4.2 K
when operating at 1 mu V/cm over the entire conductor length, includi
ng all the joints. Stability measurements were performed in background
fields up to 2.5 T from 4.2 K to 77 K. Stability margins more than 2
orders of magnitude higher than a low temperature superconductor were
observed.