US 11,901,097 B2
Round superconductor wires
Goran Majkic, Houston, TX (US); Anis Ben Yahia, Houston, TX (US); Wenbo Luo, Houston, TX (US); Venkat Selvamanickam, Houston, TX (US); and Soumen Kar, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to University of Houston System, Houston, TX (US); and AMPEERS LLC, Houston, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/288,838
Filed by University of Houston System, Houston, TX (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 28, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/058355
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/087069, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/751,328, filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0358660 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. H01B 12/06 (2006.01)
CPC H01B 12/06 (2013.01) 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A round superconductor wire including at least two superconductor tapes wound on a wire former, each superconductor tape comprising:
a bottom stabilizer layer;
a bottom silver layer disposed above the bottom stabilizer layer;
a substrate disposed above the bottom silver layer;
a buffer film stack disposed above the substrate;
a superconductor film disposed above the buffer film stack;
a top silver layer disposed above the superconductor film; and
a top stabilizer layer disposed above the top silver layer;
wherein at least one of the bottom stabilizer layer, bottom silver layer, substrate, buffer film stack, superconductor film, top silver layer, or top stabilizer layer is of a different width, thickness, or material composition in one of the superconductor tapes than in another of the superconductor tapes which is inward from the one superconductor tape, such that the one superconductor tape is an outer superconductor tape and the another superconductor tape is an inner superconductor tape.