Electrical Engineer's Reference Book, 16th Edition

5

Conductors and Superconductors

AG Clegg, MSC, PhD,     University of Sunderland (Sections 5.1 and 5.2)

NG Dovaston, BSC, PhD, MPRI.,     University of Sunderland (Section 5.1.3)

Contents

Conducting materials 5.1

Copper 5.1.1

Aluminium 5.1.2

Carbon 5.1.3

Superconductors 5.2

Low temperature superconductors 5.2.1

Stabilisation of magnet conductors 5.2.2

Applications of superconducting magnets 5.2.3

Power transmission 5.2.4

Electronic devices 5.2.5

High temperature superconductors 5.2.6

5.1 Conducting materials

5.1.1 Copper

A major part of the world’s production of copper is used in the unalloyed form, mainly in the electrical industries. Copper has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of the common industrial metals with ...