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Science & Engineering Highlights: Magnets & Materials

One of the important goals of the Mag Lab is to facilitate the exchange of scientific knowledge and to communicate the science and engineering achievements of the laboratory’s faculty and users. These science highlights showcase the cutting-edge research underway in magnet science and technology. For a list of recent research generated from all our programs, please visit our main Science Highlights page.

2009 Science & Engineering Highlights: Magnets & Materials
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Oct. 20	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Intergrain Current Flow in a Randomly Oriented Polycrystalline SmFeAsO_0.85 Oxypnictide (2 pages)	FSU / Applied Superconductivity Center	Fumitake Kametani
Aug. 28	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Do Grain Boundaries in Pnictide Superconductors Transmit Supercurrent?*	FSU / ASC	David Larbalestier
Aug. 28	Magnets & Materials Engineering	High Strength Composite Conductors*	FSU / MS&T	Mark Bird or Ke Han
Aug. 28	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Breaking the 30 T Superconducting Magnet Barrier*	FSU / MS&T, ASC	Denis Markiewicz or Ulf Trociewitz
Aug. 26	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Evidence for Highly Localized Damage in Internal Tin and Powder-in-tube Nb₃Sn Strands Rolled Before Reaction Obtained from Coupled Magneto-optical Imaging and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy	FSU / ASC	Anatolii Polyanskii or Peter Lee
Aug. 17	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Characterization of High Jc Nb₃Sn Strands for the Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
Aug. 12	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Stability of Second Generation HTS Pancake Coils at 4.2K for High Heat Flux Applications	FSU / ASC	Honghai Song
Aug. 12	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Stability and Quench Behavior of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x Coated Conductor at 4.2 K Self-Field	FSU / ASC	Honghai Song
June 18	Magnets & Materials, Engineering	Dynamic Magneto-optical Imaging of Transport Current Redistribution and Normal Zone Propagation in YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ Coated Conductor	FSU / ASC	Honghai Song

2008 Science & Engineering Highlights: Magnets & Materials
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
July 31	Magnets & Materials	Instrumentation for Measurement of Strain Dependence of Nb₃Sn Conductors	FSU / MS&T	Denis Markiewicz
July 31	Magnets & Materials	Texture and Microstructure in High Strength Cu-Ag Conductors for DC Magnets	FSU / MS&T	Ke Han
July 31	Condensed Matter Physics	Two-Band Superconductivity in LaFeAsO_0.89F_0.11 at Very High Magnetic Fields	FSU / ASC	Frank Hunte
July 31	Magnets & Materials, Engineering	Steps Toward an All-Superconducting 30 Tesla Magnet Made from Round Wire	FSU / ASC	David Larbalestier

2007 Science & Engineering Highlights: Magnets & Materials
Date	Research Area	Title	Site / Program	Contact
Sept. 14	Magnets & Materials Engineering	New World Record for Superconducting Coil Performance	FSU / MS&T	Denis Markiewicz
Sept. 13	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Resistive Magnet Developments: Split Florida-Helix & Magnet for Neutron Scattering (3 slides)	FSU / MS&T	Mark Bird
Sept. 10	Magnets and Materials Engineering	Highly Textured and Twinned Cu Films Fabricated by Pulsed Electrodeposition	FSU / MS&T	Baozhi Cui and Ke Han
August 22	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Characterization of Nb₃Sn Superconductors for Hybrid Magnets	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
August 20	Magnets & Materials Engineering	I_C Axial Strain Dependence of High Current Density Nb₃Sn Conductors	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
August 16	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Construction of the Series-Connected Hybrid Magnet (4 slides)	FSU / MS&T	Mark Bird
June 26	Magnets & Materials Engineering	Low Temperature Physical Properties of a Ni-Mo-Cr alloy Haynes® 242™	FSU / MS&T	Jun Lu
June 26	Cryogenics Engineering	Gravitational Capillary Viscometer for Low-Temperature Liquids Site	FSU / MS&T	David Hilton or Steve Van Sciver
May 14	Magnets & Materials	Limits to the Critical Current in Bi₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O_x Tape Conductors: The parallel path model	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz
May 14	Magnets & Materials	Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Thermal Stability in High Temperature Superconducting Tapes	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz
May 10	Magnets & Materials	Statistical Analysis of the Electromechanical Behavior of AgMg Sheathed Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_{8+ x} Superconducting Tapes Using Weibull Distributions	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz or Abdallah Mbaruku
May 10	Magnets & Materials	Behavior of Bulk High-temperature Superconductors of Finite Thickness Subjected to Crossed Magnetic Fields : Experiment & Model	FSU / ASC	Justin Schwartz
May 10	Magnets & Materials	Near-adiabatic Quench Experiments on YBa₂Cu₃O_{7- δ} Coated Conductors	FSU / ASC	Xiaorong Wang or Justin Schwartz

*The National Science Foundation periodically solicits Highlights from the Magnet Lab, and this research activity was one of the highlights submitted. NSF highlights use a template and each includes two slides: The first slide presents the research; the second slide discusses broader impacts.

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