SBIR/STTR Research Award
ULTRARAPID TEXTURED GROWTH OF YTTRIUM BARIUM CUPRATE FILAMENTS FOR COMPOSITE HTSC WIRE
Award amount
$49,929Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1990Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Cps Superconductor Corp.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
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- Solicitation number
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- Topic code
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Research abstract
WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING CONTINUOUSMULTIFILAMENTARY HTSC WIRE WITH HIGH CRITICAL CURRENT USING AN INNOVATIVE ULTRARAPID TEXTURED GROWTH PROCESS. THIS PROCESS IS BASED ON EXPERIMENTS SHOWING LOCALLY ORIENTED GROWTH OF Y-123 BY METASTABLE CONGRUENT MELTING AND SOLIDIFICATION DURING TWO-SECOND RAPID ANNEALS. THIS METHODWILL BE DEVELOPED FOR PROCESSING CONTINUOUS Y-123 FIBERS FORMULTIFILAMENTARY COMPOSITE WIRE.
Technology keywords
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