The I-V characteristic of a superconductor is generally described by power-law,in which the superconductor with a high n transfers quickly from superconducting state to the normal conducting state.With a high transport current,in the low n value area,flux flow voltage becomes lower than in the high n value area,so that the transient characteristics strongly affect its stability.Based on those properties,we propose a new hybrid conductor which is made of low temperature superconductor(LTS) and high temperature superconductor(HTS) with concentric configuration in which the HTS coat is located outside of the LTS core.According to their power-law models,the modified adiabatic and dynamic stability criteria are qualitatively obtained by taking account into not only their critical currents but also n values.As a result,the new hybrid conductors have potential applications with higher engineering current density and improved stability.
Based on characteristics of alternating current （AC） critical current of high temperature superconducting （HTS） tapes on the frequency, this paper focuses on AC voltage-current （U-I） behaviors of two kinds of high temperature superconducting tapes, by which BSCCO and YBCO carrying different frequency AC currents are tested in liquid nitrogen temperature of 77 K. It is shown that the AC U-I characteristic curves of different tapes consist of two parts, that is, the resistive part and the hysteresis part. Additionally, the n values of the two parts and the relationship between AC critical current and frequency are obtained through experiments. The experimental results agree with calculated ones well, which is useful for the application of HTS tapes to power technology.
The research of LTS/HTS hybrid conductor is a more recent topic in superconducting domain,and the current-sharing temperature is a key parameter to identify the characteristic of superconducting material.In this paper,based on the power-law model,the current-sharing temperatures for LTS and HTS were calculated respectively,and the calculated results have a good agreement with the existing equation results.The current-sharing temperature of a LTS/HTS hybrid superconducting conductor was numerically calculated.The calculated result of hybrid conductor shows that its current-sharing temperature can increase at least 0.2 K compared with typical LTS conductor with the same normalized transport current,so that the stability of this hybrid conductor is better than typical LTS supercondutor.It indicates that this LTS/HTS hybrid conductor as the substitutes of low-temperature superconductor,will have a wide application prospect and talent commercial value.
