AC loss characteristics of multifilamentary YBCO coated conductors

One of the methods to reduce magnetization loss of YBCO coated conductors in a perpendicular magnetic field is subdividing the YBCO layer into filaments and twisting them as a whole. A 10 mm wide multifilamentary YBCO coated conductor with 200 /spl mu/m wide filaments was prepared by striation using the laser ablation technique. The number of filaments was 40. The sample length was varied from 100 mm to 25 mm, and their magnetization loss was measured at various frequencies. The measured magnetization losses were scaled using sample length, frequency, and field amplitude. This clarifies the magnetization loss characteristics of multifilamentary YBCO coated conductors and obtains empirical expressions for the magnetization loss. The measured loss was compared with the loss calculated numerically using a two dimensional FEM model. The experimentally confirmed effect of striation to reduce the magnetization loss was compared with theoretical predictions.