Using RABiTS to fabricate high-temperature superconducting wire

In order for many large-scale bulk applications of high-temperature superco nducting materials to be realized, the cost/performance of the superconduct ors needs to be optimized. From a performance standpoint, a long flexible, single-crystal-like wire is required; from a cost-and-fabrication standpoin t, an industrially scalable, low-cost process is required. Both of these cr itical requirements are met by Polling-assisted biaxially textured substrat es, a conductor-fabrication technique that employs simple, scalable, thermo mechanical processing techniques to obtain a near-single-crystal-like, flex ible metal substrate in arbitrary lengths on which epitaxial oxide buffer l ayers and superconductors are then deposited.