“…Carr and Oberly [23] have suggested that that the ac losses in tapes several millimeters wide ~x ỹ w -w ~d 0 could be reduced by first subdividing the tapes by striations and then twisting the tapes. Analytical and experimental results pursuing this idea have been reported in [24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37]. Ashworth and Grilli [38] have recently proposed a variation of this approach, in which the tape is also subdivided into narrow parallel filaments, but instead of twisting the tape, the filaments are interrupted periodically by transverse cross-cuts bridged with normal metal.…”