Superconducting Materials for Applications

Dear Colleagues,

High-temperature superconductor (HTSc) materials have left the prototype-development stage and are now approaching different types of applications in the real world. Three basic types of superconductor materials are currently produced: thin films for electronic applications, coated conductors (tapes) mainly for power applications, and bulk materials for field trapping or screening. All of these material types are still not matured, as for each type, there are several different material classes to be considered, each with quite specific parameters (transition temperature T_c, critical current density, J_c, and irreversibility fields, H_irr). Therefore, for a given application, there are several possible solutions which clearly depend on the best fit of the material’s properties to the application demands. After this decision is made, the involved material costs and the costs of the required cooling apparatus are then decisive.

The development of superconducting applications is also driven by the current environmental challenges (e.g., for all-electric aircrafts) and by political demands to become independent of short resources like rare-earth materials (e.g., the development of superconducting supermagnets).

Therefore, there are many demands on the material development, the solution of which demands interdisciplinary developments and the use of the most modern material characterization tools to enable the applications of HTSc materials in daily life.

This Special Issue therefore aims to present several new applications of HTSc materials, the specific material processing required for a given application and new analysis methods applied in the HTSc research.

Prof. Dr. Michael R. Koblischka
Prof. Dr. Douine Bruno
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kévin Berger
Prof. Dr. Leveque Jean
Prof. Dr. Philippe Vanderbemden
Guest Editors

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