Superconducting tape licensed.(Los Alamos National Laboratory licenses high-temperature superconducting tape to IGC-SuperPower)

Fusion Power Report, July, 2001

The U. S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has licensed patents and applications related to its technology for manufacturing high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape to IGC-SuperPower of Latham, N.Y., a wholly owned subsidiary of Intermagnetics General Corp.

The Los Alamos-developed technology allows superconducting materials to be deposited onto a flatformed tape that serves as a wire that can be made into cables and coils. Those can be used in motors, generators, transformers, transmission lines, fault current controllers that prevent lightening strikes from burning out controllers, and energy-storage devices that allow energy to be stored when demand is low and used when demand goes up.

The tape, one-tenth the thickness of a...

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