Science & Engineering Summaries: Magnets & Materials

One of the important goals of the MagLab 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 Summaries 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 Summaries page.

2012 Science & Engineering Summaries: Magnets & Materials Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact July 9 Applied Superconductivity Evidence That Filament Fracture Occurs in an ITER Toroidal Field Conductor After Cyclic Lorentz Force Loading in SULTAN FSU / ASC Charlie Sanabria or Peter Lee Feb. 13 Applied Superconductivity Improved Superconducting Properties in BaZrO3-doped YBa2Cu3O7-δFilms by Grown by Fluorine-free Metal–organic Deposition FSU / ASC Fumitake Kametani or Eric Hellstrom

2010 Science & Engineering Summaries: Magnets & Materials Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact Jan. 13 Condensed Matter Physics First Measurements of the Field-dependent Nonlinear Meissner Effect: A probe of the pairing symmetry FSU / Condensed Matter Science & ASC Irinel Chiorescu

2009 Science & Engineering Summaries: Magnets & Materials Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact Oct. 20 Magnets & Materials Engineering Intergrain Current Flow in a Randomly Oriented Polycrystalline SmFeAsO0.85 Oxypnictide (2 pages) FSU / ASC 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 YBa2Cu3O7-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 YBa2Cu3O7-δ Coated Conductor FSU / ASC Honghai Song

2008 Science & Engineering Summaries: 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 LaFeAsO0.89F0.11 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 Summaries: 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 IC 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 Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox 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 Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+ 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 YBa2Cu3O7- 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.