Patent ID: 8614612

Claim:
A superconducting coil, comprising: a plurality of windings of a coil comprising: a plurality of high-temperature superconductor strands; and an electrically conductive channel in which the high-temperature superconductor strands are mounted, with a plurality of but no more than nine high-temperature superconductor strands mounted in a cross-section of the channel, wherein the coil has a cross-section that includes a plurality of the windings mutually attached in a unitary structure across the cross-section of the coil; and a filler matrix in which the windings of the high-temperature superconductor strands and electrically conductive channel are embedded in an array across the cross-section of the coil, wherein the array includes a plurality of rows and columns of electrically conductive channel sections, each containing the high-temperature superconductor strands and separated across the rows and columns of the cross-sectional array by the filler matrix.