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DOE Program Goals

  • HTS Conductors
    • Optimize conductor design to meet application needs
    • Optimize potentially low cost manufacturing processes that achieve high 2G wire performance in kilometer lengths
    • Reduce AC losses
  • Cooling Systems
    • Low cost/high efficiency/high reliability cryocoolers
    • Increase performance and reduce price of flexible cryostats
  • High voltage/low temperature electrical insulation materials
    • Dielectric materials that meet application needs
    • Make cryogenic electrical engineering routine
  • Develop Engineering Standards
  • Market entry of HTS technologies that provide new solutions to national problems - and create a new industry

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