REBCO HTS Tape

The rare-earth barium copper oxide conductor at the heart of Kronos's magnets.

Type

High-temperature superconductor

Role

Magnet conductor

Deposit

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21842514

REBCO tape is a layered composite: a thin superconducting REBCO film on a strong metal substrate, stabilised with copper. It sustains very high current density in fields well beyond what low-temperature superconductors reach, which is why it enables the 16.84 T breeder field and the 26.49 T burner plug.

Kronos's REBCO study — deposited openly — maps the critical-current envelope, the winding-pack stack, bore-resolved stress, quench behaviour, neutron lifetime and fatigue, benchmarked against demonstrated coils.