THEVA

• EcoSwing - Energy Cost Optimization using Superconducting Wind Generators - World’s First Demonstration of a 3.6 MW Low-Cost Lightweight DD Superconducting Generator on a Wind Turbine (EcoSwing)
• Project ID: 656024 H2020 project (H2020-LCE-2014-2015/H2020-LCE-2014-2), 3/2015-2/2019
• EUROTAPES - European development of Superconducting Tapes: integrating novel materials and architectures into cost effective processes for power applications and magnets.
• Project ID: 280432 FP7 project (FP7-NMP-2011-LARGE-5), 9/2012-2/2017
• Supratech - Superconductors for power applications: development of reliable PVD-production technology for HTS coated conductors
• Project ID: 03ET1010B, Ministry of Economy (BMWi), Germany, 12/2011 – 5/2015
• Highway - Optimized ReBCO-conductors for high current- and AC-applications: Manufacturing of HTS coated conductors with high current carrying capacity
• Project ID: 0327489A Ministry of Economy (BMWi), Germany, 11/2008 – 10/2011

Coated conductor pilot production plant for 200+ m splice length including amongst others 2 buffer layer deposition systems, 3 HTS deposition systems and a metallization system

Coated conductor lab facilities for process development and deposition on short length samples

Quality control lab:

• Measurement of critical current by resistive method in LN2 (77K)
• Continuous high resolution (Tapestar) measurement of critical currents and defect detection in coated conductors
• HR-SEM and cross section preparation for microscopic inspection of coated conductors
• Probing equipment for mechanical tests and CC tape qualification (delamination, stress, bending, thermal cycling)

Machine shop for fast manufacturing of parts

Dr. Markus Bauer is a senior expert in high temperature superconductors and studied physics at the Technical University Munich (TUM). He received his PhD at the physics department in 1998 for the development of bi-axially textured buffer layers on metal ubstrates. He is one of the founding members of THEVA. After his PhD he spent three years as post-doc assistant at the TUM, before he was hired by Thyssen-Krupp Transrapid as project leader. For more than eight years he worked as project manager in the fields of electric drives and inductive power transmission before he returned to his roots and joined THEVA in 2010 where he first was responsible for the development of the coated conductor production line and now leads the business development. In the project he will be the project leader for the activities of THEVA.

Dr. Veit Große studied physics and received his PhD from the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena in 2010. After that he joined THEVA and has been responsible for process development in field of the coated conductors and is now the head of the R&D department. He is an expert in our coated conductor fabrication technique and the mechanical and electrical properties of the coated conductors. In the project he will coordinate the optimization of the coated conductors.

Dr. Eike Nanocha studied materials science and received his PhD from the Technical University of Berlin in 2012. He joined THEVA in 2012 and worked on the HTS deposition on short length with our laboratory systems. When the pilot line went into operation he became responsible for the HTS deposition process with this line. In the project he will focus on the improvement of the HTS deposition process.

Stefan Furtner studied Physics at the Technical University of Munich and received his Diplom in 1997. He joined THEVA in the same year and started to develop devices for characterization of HTS coatings on wafers and tapes. Today he is responsible for the development of measurement devices in general and also measurements with the THEVA owned hall scanning device Tapestar. In the project he will be responsible for the tape characterization and determination of the homogeneity of the tapes.