About the session
High temperature superconductor (HTS) wire, now available in commercial-volume, is revolutionizing many of the world's large electrical systems. In this presentation, the speaker discusses the evolution of superconductor technology from the discovery in 1986 of HTS materials to the HTS products and solutions of today and tomorrow. We may be on the verge of a revolution in power engineering due to manufacturing breakthroughs in superconductors. In the last 15 years, substantial progress has enabled reliable conductors to be commercially manufactured, capable of some 140 times the current density of copper. The availability of HTS enables a radical change in the designs of power devices compared to conventional copper conductor systems - the first such in the last 100 years - with increased efficiencies and size reductions.
