A team led by the physicists Christoph Utschick and Rudolf Gross from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a coil made of superconducting wires that can contactlessly transmit power of more than five kilowatts without major losses. Image: C. Utschick / Würth Elektronik eiSos
A team led by the physicists Christoph Utschick and Rudolf Gross from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a coil made of superconducting wires that can contactlessly transmit power of more than five kilowatts without major losses. Image: C. Utschick / Würth Elektronik eiSos Superconducting coils for contactless power transmission in the kilowatt range - Such devices could be placed on a charging station whenever they are not in use. This would make it possible to effectively utilize even short idle times to recharge their batteries. However, the currently available transmission systems for high performance recharging in the kilowatt range and above are large and heavy, since they are based on copper coils. Working in a research partnership with the companies Würth Elektronik eiSos and superconductor coating specialist Theva Dünnschichttechnik, a team of physicists led by Christoph Utschick and Rudolf Gross have succeeded in creating a coil with superconducting wires capable of contactless power transmission in the order of more than five kilowatts (kW) and without significant loss. This meant the researchers had to overcome a challenge. Minor alternating current losses also occur in superconducting transmission coils.
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