European Advanced Superconductors, a Division of Bruker’s
Advanced Supercon Business, Reports Record Current with Powder-In-Tube
Superconductor
HANAU, Germany (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) May 21, 2008 --
A new record value of critical current in its Nb3Sn
superconductors has been reached by European Advanced Superconductors
GmbH & Co. KG (EAS) using the company’s
proprietary Powder In Tube (PIT) technology, the
Advanced Supercon business of Bruker Corporation announced today.
At a magnetic field of 12 T and a temperature of 4.2 K, the proprietary
PIT conductor achieved a record non-copper current of 2,634 A/mm2,
approximately 5% higher than previous records. EAS acquired the PIT
technology from the Dutch company SMI in December of 2006 and has
continued to develop these very high current Nb3Sn
conductors for a range of applications, including future fusion projects.
The new record PIT conductor is 1.25 mm in total diameter and consists
of 288 superconducting filaments with each being less than 50
micrometers in diameter. This special type of superconductor is being
developed for the Next European Dipole (NEP)
programme at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
“We have been a partner for CERN in their
accelerator projects for many years now and are very pleased to present
this outstanding result in time for CERN’s
biannual review of superconductor and magnet design, which we are
currently attending in Geneva,” stated
Reinhard Dietrich, Sales and Marketing Director of EAS. “The
most recent example of our project work with CERN is the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC), for which we delivered NbTi-superconductor cables for
dipoles, quadropoles and detector magnets. With this latest improvement
in our very high current PIT conductors, we have further strengthened
our position as an innovation leader in superconducting materials, in
particular for future needs in high energy physics and fusion research
projects.”
About EAS/Advanced Supercon:
European Advanced Superconductors GmbH & Co. KG is based in Hanau,
Germany and is part of the Advanced Supercon business of Bruker
Corporation. In addition to EAS, the Advanced Supercon business also
includes European High Temperature Superconductors (EHTS) in Germany,
Hydrostatic Extrusions Limited in Scotland, and Advanced Supercon, Inc.
in the United States. EAS is a world leading manufacturer of high
performance superconductors used for clinical MRI, scientific
instruments including NMR, EPR, and FTMS, as well as for large-scale
research applications in high energy physics and fusion projects. For
more information, please visit our website at www.advancedsupercon.com
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