A superconducting tape ... mass produced? (new tape carries 1 million amperes of electric current per square centimeter; new methods for producing high-temperature superconducting wire in mass quantities)(Brief Article)

From: Science News | Date: April 29, 1995| Author: Lipkin, Richard | Copyright information

A flexible superconducting tape that carries more than 1 million amperes of electric current per square centimeter of material has proven itself in the laboratory, scientists report. Stephen R. Foltyn, a materials scientist at the Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory, and his colleagues describe making bendable strips that superconduct at 75 kelvins, the temperature of liquid nitrogen.

For a superconductor to carry so much electricity in such a small area -- a density of c...

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