High-Temperature Superconducting High-Current Devices Compensated for Anisotropic Effects

A high-temperature superconducting (HTS) device comprising:

• a plurality of cable subassemblies, each with a cross section having a cable subassembly width and a cable subassembly thickness further comprising:
• a plurality of tapes formed of a superconducting material, each of the plurality of tapes having a tape length, a first face and an opposing second face of a tape width, and a first edge and a second edge having a tape thickness;
• and
• a cable subassembly wrapper formed of a first non-superconducting material disposed around a stack of the plurality of tapes,
• wherein the plurality of tapes in the stack are slidably arranged face-to-face with aligned first and second edges, the stack of tapes having an aggregate thickness substantially equal to the cable subassembly width less the thickness of the cable subassembly wrapper, the tape width being substantially equal to the cable subassembly width less the thickness of the cable subassembly wrapper, and the subassembly wrapper is disposed around the cable subassembly for substantially the length of the cable subassembly;
• and
• a cable assembly comprising an n×m array of the plurality of cable subassemblies, wherein each cable subassembly is disposed adjacent to at least one other cable subassembly, n and m are positive integers, and the cable assembly has an assembly length substantially equal to the cable subassembly length;
• and
• a cable assembly wrapper formed of a second non-superconducting material disposed around a cable assembly,
• wherein a first cable subassembly of the array of subassemblies is oriented substantially perpendicular to a second cable subassembly with regard to the plurality of tapes.