US3792990A - Alloy for superconductive magnet - Google Patents

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US3792990A
US3792990A US00310023A US3792990DA US3792990A US 3792990 A US3792990 A US 3792990A US 00310023 A US00310023 A US 00310023A US 3792990D A US3792990D A US 3792990DA US 3792990 A US3792990 A US 3792990A
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  • Nb-Ti alloy, Nb-Zr alloy and V-Ti alloy show critical temperature as high as 8-l0K.
  • Nb-Zr-Ti alloy As ternary alloy, there are known Nb-Zr-Ti alloy and Nb-Ti-Ta alloy which plastic processing is relatively easy.
  • Critical magnetic field of these alloy superconductors is 100-120 KOe at liquid helium fernperature Q 1210 and lower than that of compound superconductor such as Nb Sn and V Ga, i.e., 200-220 KOe.
  • compound superconductor such as Nb Sn and V Ga, i.e., 200-220 KOe.
  • these compound superconductors are poor in processability and it is difficult to fabricate the compound superconductor into wire. Therefore, alloy superconductor is practically used for commercial purpose at the present time.
  • the present invention is relevant to an alloy superconductor which gives critical magnetic field higher than that of compound superconductors. Furthermore, critical temperature of alloy of the present invention is higher than that of prior art superconductive alloys such as V-Hf-Zr, V-Hf-Cr, V-Hf-Ta, V-Hf-Mo and V- Hf-W.
  • composition of alloy is shown by atomic percent.
  • an alloy for superconductive magnet comprising a ternary alloy of V-Hf-Nb wherein contents of V, Hf and Nb are 30-90 percent, 5-65 percent, and less than 40 percent, respectively.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a superconductive alloy having a critical magnetic field higher than superconductors of compound type.
  • FIG. 1 represents critical temperature isotherms of the V-Hf-Nb ternary alloy according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 represents isocritical magnetic field (the same critical magnetic field) of V-Hf-Nb ternary alloy according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 shows diagrammatically a process for producing a tape of an alloy of this invention.
  • a material showing a critical current density of higher than l i I O A/cm at a magnetic field of0TCO is excellent from practical point of view.
  • a critical current density as high as 2.8 Z l0 A/crrF at jfiiOe c an be 6156mm;
  • practically excellent superconductor according to the present invention may be produced by some manufacturing and processing methods selected taking into consideration processability of a material itself and effect of a processing method on the superconductive properties.
  • An alloy of the present invention in a certain composition region may be produced by conventional means such as melting, heat treatment and plastic processing.
  • component metals corresponding to a composition are mixed and melted in an arc melting furnace followed by molding to procude a mold material.
  • the resulting mold material has two-phase system produced by formation of a superconductive phase of poor processability which is not suitable for direct plastic processing. Therefore, this material is subjected to melting treatment at 950-I400C. Then the mold material is fabricated into thin wiresor tapes of desirable size followed by heat treatment at 300-900C to produce a phase of excellent superconductive characteristics.
  • An alloy of the present invention insideof isotherm 3 indicated by cross oblique lines in FIG. 1 is relatively poor in plastic processability. Therefore, it is necessary to wrap the molding material with a stainless steel sheath and extrude at about l,200C.
  • a powder metallurgical method which comprises by mixing sufficiently component metal powders at a desirable mixing ratio, shaping in a mold and sintering at 800-l,400C.
  • Particle size of metal powder in the above mentioned procedure is not particularly limited, but particle size used in usual powder metallurgy may be employed.
  • the sintering temperature of 800l,400C is suitable for converting a sintered matter to a multi-component alloy of easy plastic processability.
  • the resulting sintered matter thus treated is fabricated into, for example, a thin wire of desirable size and shape by plastic processing.
  • a binary alloy of easy processing such as V-Nb, V-Hf and Hf-Nb
  • another simple substance metal or the latter simple substance metal is fitted into atube or cylinder of the former binary alloy or a hole in a billet.
  • the resulting composite is subjected to plastic processing to form a thin wire or tape of desirable size.
  • the binary alloy and the simple substance metal may be arranged in an opposite manner.
  • the binary alloy and the simple substance metal closely contact each other at the boundary.
  • the wire or tape is subjected to thermal diffusion treatment to produce at the boundary a superconductive alloy material containing a uniform and continuous ternary alloy diffusion layer.
  • the thermal diffusion treatment is effected by heating the composite at 850-l,300C in an inert atmosphere or vacuum for more than several minutes.
  • a diffusion layer of a ternary alloy having a composition within the isotherm 3 indicated by cross oblique lines.
  • composition of the diffusion layer is affected by the heat treating temperature and the composition of the binary alloy such as V-Nb, Hf-Nb and the like.
  • the above mentioned various processing methods may be applied to an alloy having a composition within the isotherm 1. Further, the following processing methods may be also used, that is, a processing method comprising depositing simultaneously V, l-If and Nb on a surface of a base material by vacuum evaporation, a processing method comprising melting and applying the ternary alloy to a base material by plasma jet, and a vapor phase reducing method comprising reducing simultaneously halides of V, l-lf and Nb with hydrogen to deposit the metals on a base material.
  • the base material may be one simple substance metal which is one component of the ternary alloy and further may be a material incapable of reacting with any of metal components of the ternary alloy such as stainless steel and quartz glass.
  • EXAMPLE 1 V, Hf and Nb were mixed and arc-melted in an argon atmosphere by using a water-cooled copper crucible to form an ingot. Both ends of a bar-like sample cut out from the ingot were copper-plated and then lead wires were soldered thereto. Thus there was obtained a sample for determining critical temperature and critical magnetic field. The resulting sample was placed in a sample room, temperature distribution in which was uniform. Te critical temperature was determined by measuring simultaneously the electric resistance and the temperature change of the sample. The temperature was adjusted by soaking the sample in liquid helium and taking out gradually the sample from the liquid surface.
  • the critical temperature was defined as a temperature at which the electric resistance of the sample ternary alloy becomes a half of the value of electric resistance at normal conductive state.
  • the critical temperature there were obtained triangular coordinates showing the composition of the ternary alloy and the critical temperature as illustrated in FIG. 1.
  • the V- 'I-If-Nb alloy having composition within isotherms and in FIG. 2.
  • the region within isocritical magnetic field curve 4 indicated by oblique lines and cross oblique;
  • the region within isocritical magnetic field curve 6 as indicated by cross oblique lines in FIG. 2 shows critical ifiagnetlc field of higher than 250 KOe/This critical magnetic field is far higher than that of Nb Sn or V Ga having the highest critical magnetic field as high as "210-220 KOe.
  • the superconductive material of the present invention is an excellent one for high magnetic field.
  • EXAMPLE 2 From V-SNb alloy produced by electron beam melting, there was cut out a hollw cylinder 2 of 5 mm. in inner diameter, 10 mm. in outer diameter and 100 mm. long, as shown in FIG. 3a. A hafnium rod 1 of 100 mm. long in FIG. 3a was fitted into hollow cylinder 2 to form a composite (FIG. 3b) followed by cold rolling to produce a tape of3 mm. wide and 0.2 mm. thick (FIG. 3c).
  • the resulting tape is a composite of Hf and V-5Nb alloy which are closely contacted each other.
  • the resulting composite tape was heat-treated at 950C or 1,000C in vacuum of 10 mml-lg to produce four kinds of su- 'perconductor having a ternary alloy layer 3 formed by ⁇ heat diffusion at the interface (FIG. 311).
  • Composition of the heat diffusion layer is analyzed by an X-ray microanalyzer.
  • Critical current density is determined by applying a constant external magnetic field of 30 KOe to the sample in liquid helium in a direction rectangular to the sample current.
  • the new superconductive material of the present invention has a very high critical current density and can be practically used as superconductive magnet material.
  • the external magnetic field was A magnetic field of higher than KOe can be easily produced, and furthermore, a magnetic field of higher than 200 KOe which can not be produced by conven tional superconductive material can be generated by using the superconductive material of the present invention.
  • Alloy for superconductive magnet comprising a ternary alloy of V-I-If-Nb wherein contents of V, l-If and Nbare 30-90 atomic percent, 5-65 atomic percent,

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