Development of Ag sheathed Bi-2223 multifilamentary tapes with MgOcoated filaments

摘要

A dip-coating process to obtain controlled, uniform coatings on silver sheathed Bi-2223 wires suitable for the fabrication of multifilamentary tapes is reported. Tapes with continuous fully connected MgO resistive barrier layers 1 to 17 μm thick have been produced and characterized. The correlation between their microstructure, electric transport and magnetic properties has been analyzed. An effective reduction of the interfilamentary coupling with a minimum degradation of the tape performance has been obtained for 1 to 3 μm thick barrier layers