The Project will fabricate bulk Y123 superconductors with engineering critical current density greater than 35 kA cm-2 at 77 K and 3 T at a cost of $10 per kA m or less. To fabricate such bulk superconductors, Adtech will establish a New Technology for production of continuous lengths of HTS thick films. Adtech's New Technology will extend Adtech's patented Method of superconductor fabrication by retrofitting it with Directional Processing, a novel approach of concurrent reaction sintering and texturing of NEPTH precursor. Adtech's Method is the only known method that bypasses the oxygenation of the tetragonal Y123 phase as the prerequisite to fabricate Y123 HTS and thus overcomes the shortcomings of the other current methods that limit engineering current density and cost-effectiveness of current bulk superconductors. The Phase I Project will establish the New Technology by fabricating Y123 HTS with 10 wt% silver and in the form of thick films on ceramic substrates. Y123 HTS bulk from the Phase I Project will have a minimum critical engineering current density of JE of 10 kA cm-2 at 77 K and 1 T, a minimum length of 20 cm and a minimum fill factor of 0.5
