Reinforced high temperature superconductor solenoids

A device, comprising:

• a single HTS crystal block, wherein the single HTS crystal block was created by:
• adding HTS constituent materials into a mold to create a material layer, wherein the material layer comprises a material plane substantially parallel to a flat surface of the mold;
• disposing a set of fibers that extend approximately from one edge of the mold to approximately another edge of the mold on the material plane of the material layer to create a fiber layer;
• adding other HTS constituent materials into the mold on top of the fiber layer to create an other material layer;
• compressing the material layer, the fiber layer, and the other layer in the mold to create a compressed reinforced HTS material block with a material block flat surface corresponding to the flat surface of the mold;
• removing the compressed reinforced HTS material block from the mold;
• heating the compressed reinforced HTS material block, wherein the material block flat surface is in contact with a flat surface of a single crystal seed plate;
• cooling under oxygen the HTS material block to create the single HTS crystal block;
• and
• separating the single HTS crystal block from the single crystal seed plate.