Making a superconductive tube
AssigneeKabelmetal Electro GmbH
InventorsGerhard Ziemek, Herbert Kubiak
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Abstract
The method of U.S. Pat. No. 3,866,315 is improved by brushing copper particles also on the other side of the niobium ribbon prior to, e.g., rolling and by increasing the layer's thickness by an electrolytic process. That layer will be on the outside of the tube. Tin is subsequently deposited thereon; and by means of annealing, the tin is caused to diffuse through this outside copper layer and into the niobium to form a uniform Nb.sub.3 Sn layer.
Claims7
The method of making a copper-stabilized, corrugated tin-niobium superconductor which includes brushing copper onto one side of a niobium ribbon, electroplating additional copper onto the brushed-on copper, folding the ribbon into a split tube, the copper facing inwardly, welding the adjoining edges of the ribbon and corrugating the resulting tube, the improvement comprising:
- providing a very thin copper layer including brushing copper particles onto the opposite side of said niobium ribbon, prior to forming said split tube, the copper particles facing outwardly after said forming;
- applying tin to the outer copper layer;
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- heat-treating the tube with tin sufficiently applied for obtaining diffusion of the tin through the outer copper layer followed by formation of Nb.sub.3 Sn as the tin diffuses into the niobium.
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