Influence of the current through one turn of a multilayer coil on the nearest turn in a consecutive layer

Many references on AC losses can be found for straight superconducting tapes with or without an external magnetic field. There are fewer references on AC losses for bent tapes such as we find it in a spire or solenoid. But even fewer are the references on the study of AC losses in multilayer coils or magnetically coupled coils wound close together. In these cases, the loss in each piece of tape depends on three factors: the transport current in it, the global magnetic field due to the complete coil, and the local magnetic field due to the current in the tape wound just over or under the piece in question -the main difference between multilayer coils and magnetically coupled coils is that the current in the former is the same in all the layers and the currents in magnetically coupled coils are different in amplitude and phase. In order to determine the losses due to the third factor above, the local magnetic fields, we propose in this paper an experiment that consists of the measurement of losses in two straight insulated superconducting tapes located one over the other as close together as possible. In this way, the effect of the global magnetic field of the coil disappears because the coil does not exist. Furthermore, one of the tapes is made to be twice as long as the other so that we can measure the part of the transport losses in the part of the tape independent on the influence of the other. This permits us to distinguish the component of the losses due to the interaction between the pair of tapes. BSCCO tape was used and the pieces were fed with two different power supplies each one giving a current adjustable in amplitude. Measurements of the voltages between taps and in contact-less loops were taken both between the tapes and, in the longer tape, away from the influence of the shorter one. The losses were calculated from the wave forms of the contact and contact-less voltages and the currents. The influence of the proximity of the tapes was determined.