Trainee in Advanced Measurement Techniques for HTS magnets

Position

Trainee in Advanced Measurement Techniques for HTS magnets (Internship, 7 months). Index No. . Application deadline: .

Responsibilities

At PSI, there is a growing interest in superconducting magnets built with High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) technology. The need to characterize these magnets during dynamic operation is becoming increasingly important. Although HTS magnets allow for large operational margins, they might exhibit poor field quality and/or excessive AC losses, depending on the practical design.

To assess field quality (i.e., field harmonics), the most suitable measurement technique is the rotating coil method. Current measurement systems at PSI are designed for steady‑state magnets and rely on post‑processing, with data streaming limited to ~5 s. To enable field quality measurements during dynamic magnet operation, part of the computational workload must be moved to real‑time signal processing, including numerical...