ASC Science Highlights

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 applied superconductivity. For a list of recent research generated from all our programs, please visit our main Science Highlights page.

2009 Science & Engineering Highlights: Applied Superconductivity Center 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 / 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 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. 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 Highlights: Applied Superconductivity Center Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact 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 Highlights: Applied Superconductivity Center Date Research Area Title Site / Program Contact 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.