Symposium AAA: Superconducting Materials—From Basic Science to Deployment

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Superconducting Materials—From Basic Science to Deployment

The symposium will broadly cover superconducting materials. An emphasis is placed on developing superconductors for energy applications by facilitating a more rapid transition from basic science and discovery to deployment as long-length conductors in large quantities. Superconducting materials categories should include cuprates, iron-based compounds, MgB2, and conventional metals, alloys, and compounds. Symposium contributions are solicited that address either improvement of existing practical wires and tapes for transmission cables, coils and windings, high-field magnets, SMES, and large-scale systems, or obstacles confronting the development of practical conductors from emerging materials presently restricted to crystals, bulk, or thin films.  Discussion of synthesis, growth mechanisms, and fabrication routes; methods to improve properties important for applications such as flux pinning; and discussions that advance understanding of fundamental material science issues are also welcomed.

Session topics will include

  • Synthesis and nanostructure, including deconstruction of practical superconductors to solve problems, and basic requirements for conductors made from emerging materials
  • Flux pinning and critical current: intrinsic behavior within grains, crystals, and oriented films; reduction of anisotropy; extrinsic factors such as intergranular transport, blockage, and weak links
  • Other superconducting properties important for applications
  • Novel synthesis routes, atomic layer control, and self-assembly
  • Thermodynamics, kinetics, and growth mechanisms
  • Second-generation REBCO wires: processing and applications
  • Bi-based tapes and round wires: processing and applications
  • Iron-based and MgB2 superconductors and potential applications

 

Invited Speakers Include:

Markus Bauer (THEVA, Germany), George Crabtree (Argonne National Lab), Chang-Beom Eom (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Rene Flukiger (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland), Wilfried Goldacker (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany), Satoshi Hata (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Timothy Haugan (Air Force Research Lab), Drew Hazelton (SuperPower Inc.), Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan), Mark Johnson (DOE ARPA-E), Takanobu Kiss (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Hitoshi Kitaguchi (National Inst. for Materials Science, Japan), Takayoshi Nakashima (Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan), Xavier Obradors (Inst. de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Spain), Marina Putti (Univ. of Genova and CNR-SPIN, Italy), Marty Rupich (AMSC), Venkat (Selva) Selvamanickam (Univ. of Houston), Tengming Shen (Fermi National Accelerator Lab), Jun-ichi Shimoyama (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Vycheslav Solovyov (Brookhaven National Lab), Chiara Tarantini (Florida State Univ.), Maw Kuen Wu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Sang Im Yoo (Seoul National Univ., Korea)

Symposium Organizers

Qiang Li
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Center for Emergent Superconductivity
Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Dept.
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Tel 631-344-4490, Fax 631-344-4071, qiangli@bnl.gov

Lance Cooley
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Technical Division
Superconducting Materials Dept.
Kirk Rd. & Pine St., Batavia, IL 60510-5011
Tel 630-840-6797, ldcooley@fnal.gov

Kenichi Sato
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
1-1-3 Shimaya, Konohana-Ku, Osaka 554, Japan
Tel 81-6-6466-5633, sato-kenichi@sei.co.jp

Bernhard Holzapfel
IFW Dresden
Helmholtzstr. 20, D-01069 Dresden, Germany
Tel 49-351-4659-455, b.holzapfel@ifw-dresden.de
 

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