Superconductivity plays a key role in Magnet Technology, allowing to reach fields in the range of 2-20 teslas, well beyond the capability of normal iron dominated magnets. Magnets are where superconductivity really went to Market with more than 1000 devices per year sold for hospital MRI.
Lecture 1 will present the main properties of superconductors related to transport current and will introduce the magnets for the different
applications, highlighting the characteristics where superconductivity is crucial for the performance: accelerator and detector magnets, fusion, NMR and MRI, Energy Storage, Magneto-HydroDynamics and other power applications.
Lecture 2 will concern basically field and coil design, with the emphasis on the strict connection, typical of 'conductor dominated magnets', between the two issues and will introduce manufacturing technique.
Lecture 3 will report on stability, reporting different concepts and
approaches, both in designing the conductor and in choice of the cooling system. The different scheme for magnet protection will be examined both for driven and for persistent magnets.
Lecture 4 will be devoted to review recent progress of HTS technology by examining the performance of tapes based on BSCCO as well as on the
-novel- deposition techniques of YBCO tapes.
Note: Please note unusual time for Tuesday 16 May (from 10:00 to 11:00 hrs).
