Abstract
The ANKA Synchrotron Radiation Facility at KIT and Babcock Noell GmbH (BNG) are pursuing a Research & Development program on superconducting undulators (SCUs). The collaboration focuses on conduction-cooled SCUs with NbTi superconductor coils and a variable vacuum gap. Since SCUs can reach higher magnetic peak fields than permanent magnet in-vacuum insertion devices, including cryogenic ones (for the same gap and period length), they have the potential to increase the spectral range, brilliance and flux of existing state-of-the-art devices.