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High Yield and High Throughput Reactive IBAD MgO Process for Long-length, HTS Wire Production at SuperPower

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Xuming Xiong
Affiliation:
xumingxiong@yahoo.co.ukxxiong@superpower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
karol Zdun
Affiliation:
kzdun@superPower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
Sunjing Kim
Affiliation:
skim@superPower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
Andrei Rar
Affiliation:
arar@superpower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
Senthil Sambandam
Affiliation:
ssambandam@superpower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
Robert Schmidt
Affiliation:
bschmidt@suerpower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
Yimin Chen
Affiliation:
ychen@suerpower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
Kenneth Lenseth
Affiliation:
klenseth@suerpower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
Venkat Selvamanickam
Affiliation:
selva@superpower-inc.com, SuperPower Inc, Material, Schenectady, New York, United States
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Abstract

SuperPower's IBAD (ion beam assisted deposition) MgO process has been changed to reactive ion beam sputtering of Mg metal target instead of MgO ceramic target, which gives ∼ 60 % increase in deposition rate. The process speed was increased from 195 m/h to 360 m/h. Texture of IBAD MgO tapes by this reactive process was found to degrade faster during long length run. This uniform issue was resolved with feedback control during long run and from run to run. The bottleneck of alumina layer process due to slow ion beam sputtering deposition was removed by new high rate reactive magnetron sputtering at transition mode. The new alumina process speed can be as high as 3,000 m/h in our Pilot Buffer system. The yttria layer process was also changed to high rate reactive magnetron sputtering at transition mode with achievable speed as high as 10,000 m/h in our Pilot Buffer system. The routine production speed of alumina and yttria is 750 m/h due to limitation of tape driving system. The high rate magnetron-sputtered alumina/yttria yields the same texture of IBAD MgO as ion beam sputtered alumina/yttria. Now we are routinely producing IBAD MgO template tapes of ∼ 1.4 km with a uniform in-plane texture ∼ 6-7 degrees. Record high critical current of 813 A/cm over a one meter length and a world record critical current times length value of > 233,8100A-m was obtained with our routinely-produced high throughput IBAD MgO buffers. The requirements for a better IBAD texturing layer than IBAD MgO are also suggested.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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