Recent Developments of Bismuth Based High Temperature Superconducting Wire and Their Applications

Abstract

  Bismuth based high temperature superconductor has discovered by Dr. Maeda at NIMS (National Institute for Materials Science). Just after the discovery of this material, Sumitomo Electric has carried out the R&D on long length and high performance wire, and many application prototypes for more than 20 years. As a wire manufacturing technology, CT-OP (controlled over pressure sintering) process is very effective to make high performance wire. Power cable and ship propulsion motor applications using bismuth based superconducting wire are highly expected.