Aluminium-stabilized superconductor and superconducting coil, and method of manufacturing the superconductor

摘要

A superconductor has an aluminum area (4) at the center in the cross section of said conductor therein and copper-­covered multifilamentary NbTi composite conductor (2) at the peripheral parts of the cross section formed there around. The cross-sectional area ratio of (Cu+Al)/NbTi is in the range of 0.5 to 3.0 and the cross-sectional area ratio of Al/Cu is in the range of 0.05 to 0.5. This superconductor is provided by a method comprising the first step of providing a superconduc­tor-copper composite hollow body in which copper films are applied around the superconductors, the second step of area reducing said composite hollow body, the third step of heat treating said body, the fourth step of inserting an aluminum body into the hollow of said hollow body, the fifth step of subjecting the body to working such as drawing, and the sixth step of subjecting the body to working such as twisting, form­ing or the like, an additional area reduction being carried out, if necessary, subsequent to the third step. A supercon­ducting coil is made using the superconductor, and the coil is used for a magnetically levitated vehicle or a nuclear magnet­ic resonance apparatus.