A 100-T magnetic field has heretofore been available only in pulse mode. This first-cut design demonstrates that a 100-T DC magnet (100 T) is possible. We base our design on: Gadoliniumbased coated superconductor; a nested-coil formation, each a stack of double-pancake coils with the no-insulation technique; a band of high-strength steel over each coil; and a 12-T radial-field limit. The 100 T, a 20 mm cold bore, 6-m diameter, 17-m height, with a total of 12 500-km long superconductor, stores an energy of 122 GJ at its 4.2-K operating current of 2400 A. It requires a 4.2-K cooling power of 300 W. A 100-T DC field, one million times the earth field, is more than double 45 T, 1 the highest DC field created to date. Upon completion, a 32-T magnet at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) will achieve the highest DC field by an all-superconducting magnet.2,3 Fields greater than 45 T have been beyond DC magnet technology. Simply stated, this is because no electrical conductor meets two requirements for generation of a >45-T continuous field: high mechanical strength and good electrical conductivity. Copper is unable to withstand the high magnetic stresses. Steel can cope with the large stresses, as has been demonstrated by pulse magnets, 4,5 but its large electrical resistivity leads to huge Joule heating that rapidly overheats the steel, reducing its strength and thereby forcing >45-T steel magnets to operate only in pulse mode. 6,7 Although the range of experiments that can be done with pulsed fields continues to expand, 7 the words of Francis Bitter remain valid, "there are many experiments that are extremely difficult or impossible to perform in a hundredth of a second" 8 as a reason to drive the maximum DC field limit much higher. Our 100-T DC magnet (100 T) uses a superconductor of sufficient strength, with the winding reinforced by overbands of high-strength stainless steel. With electrical resistivity anchored to zero, one inherent weakness of the pulse magnet is eliminated.The two crucial design issues in high-field superconducting magnets are: (1) mechanical integrity; and (2) protection. In this first-cut design, based on the no-insulation (NI) technique, 9-18 we assumed 100 T self-protecting; thus, we focused chiefly on mechanical stress. Our key design approach is fourfold.
The 100 T is wound with GdBCO tape manufactured bySuperPower, specifically 12-mm wide and 95-lm thick, comprising 50-l thick Hastelloy substrate (room-temperature yield stress and strain, respectively, of 970 MPa and 0.95% 19 ), two 20-lm thick electroplated copper layers, and 5-lm thick remainder (1-lm thick GdBCO layer and other materials). 2. The 100 T consists of 39 nested coils, each a stack of double-pancake coils (DPs) wound with the NI technique.3. To keep the peak tensile stress on GdBCO tape to 700 MPa at 4.2 K, each DP is reinforced over its outer diameter with a high-strength stainless steel band (overband) of 300-K ultimate strength of 1400 MPa and Young's modulus of 200 GPa. 4. To limit the maximum radial fi...