Development of Testing Device for Critical Current Measurements for HTS/LTS

For the goal of superconducting magnet applications in the advanced testing device for high temperature superconducting (HTS) wire and sample coils, a wide bore conduction-cooled superconducting magnet with available warm bore of phi 186 mm and center field of 5 T for the background magnetic field applications was designed and fabricated and tested. A sample cryostat with two GM cryocoolers is inserted in the background magnet. The system allows measurements to be performed in a repeatable and reliable fashion. The detailed design, fabrication and thermal analysis are presented in the paper.