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February 2007
Super-carbon: superconductivity and relativity meet in a monolayer of graphite
28 February 2007: Until recently, superconductivity and the theory
of relativity ‑ two of the last century's greatest discoveries in physics ‑ had
very little to do with each other. However, researchers at TU Delft's Kavli
Institute for Nanoscience and the FOM Foundation have, for the first time,
detected superconducting properties in a material comprised of massless,
relativistic electrons. Their device - which consists of graphene attached to
superconductors - also functions as a bipolar transistor for superconducting
currents. The researchers will publish this scientific breakthrough on 1 March
2007 in the journal Nature.
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Giant
magnet goes underground at CERN
Geneva, Switzerland, 28 February 2007: At 6:00 am this morning the heaviest piece of the
superconducting
Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector began a momentous journey into
its experimental cavern, 100 metres underground at CERN.
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AMSC Continues Sales Growth in Wind Energy Market with
Domestic and International D-Var(R) Orders
Westborough, MA, 28 February 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, announced today that it has
received new orders for its D-VAR(R) voltage regulation systems for wind farms
in Northern Ireland and Texas.
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SuperPower Receives $3 Million Office of Naval Research Contract For Further
Development of a High-Temperature Superconducting
Generator for Application to the Navy's All Electric Ship Program
Schenectady, NY, 27 February 27, 2007:
SuperPower, Inc. has
announced that it has signed
a contract worth $3 million with the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Naval
Research (ONR) to proceed to the second phase of a program to develop a
high-temperature superconducting (HTS) generator based on its world-class
second-generation (2G) HTS wire.
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Jefferies to
Host 3rd Global Clean Technology Conference on May 2nd in New York City
New York, NY, 27 February 2007: Jefferies & Company, Inc., the principal
operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE:JEF), today announced that
it will host its 3rd Global Clean Technology Conference on May 2, 2007 in New
York City.
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New insights into high-temperature superconductors
Washington, DC, 26 February 2007: Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's
Geophysical Laboratory in
collaboration with a physicist at the
Chinese University
of Hong Kong have discovered that two different physical parameters —pressure
and the substitution of different isotopes of oxygen —have a similar effect on
electronic properties of high-temperature superconductors. The results also
suggest that vibrations (called phonons), within the lattice structure of these
materials, are essential to their superconductivity by binding electrons in
pairs.
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BYU study another step in the
march toward better superconductors
Branton
Campbell, assistant professor of physics, in collaboration with the
University of Tennessee's
Pengcheng Daiand others, has published a
paper (subscription required) in the high-profile journal
Nature Materials
that explains the behavior of an important class of superconducting
ceramics.
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Under pressure, vanadium
won’t turn down the volume
Washington, DC, 20 February 2007: Scientists
at Carnegie’s
Geophysical Laboratory have discovered a new type of phase transition—a change
from one form to another—in vanadium, a metal that is commonly added to steel to
make it harder and more durable. Under extremely high pressures, pure vanadium
crystals change their shape but do not take up less space as a result, unlike
most other elements that undergo phase transitions.
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Head of U.S. ITER project named IEEE Fellow
Oak Ridge, TN, 15 February 2007: Ned Sauthoff,
an Oak Ridge physicist leading the U.S. role in a global fusion energy project,
has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
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Strain Has Major Effect on
High-Temp Superconductors
Gaithersburg, MD, 15 February 2007:
Just a little mechanical strain can cause a large drop
in the maximum current carried by high-temperature superconductors, according to
novel measurements carried out by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST). The
effect, which is reversible, adds a new dimension to designing superconducting
systems—particularly for electric power applications—and it also provides a new
tool that will help scientists probe the fundamental mechanism behind why these
materials carry current with no resistance.
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Congressional Testimony on FY
2008 R&D Budget by OSTP Director John Marburger
Washington, DC, 15 February 2007:
Statement of Dr. John Marburger, Director,
Office of Science and Technology
Policy, to the Committee on Science and Technology, United States House of
Representatives.
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Frost & Sullivan
Selects American Superconductor As Recipient Of 2006 Enabling Technology Award
San Antonio, TX, 15 February 2007: Frost & Sullivan selected American
Superconductor as the recipient of the 2006 Enabling Technology Award in the
transmission and distribution (T&D) equipment market in recognition of the
company’s outstanding efforts in globally developing high temperature
superconductor (HTS) wire and applications.
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Laurentian
University Opens High Field (500MHz) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratory
Sudbury, Ontario, 15 February 2007:
Laurentian University is pleased to announce the official opening of its
High Field (500 MHz) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility. The instrument
was donated to Laurentian by Merck Frosst. An instrument of this quality costs
between $1.2 million and $1.6 million when purchased new.
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Region's First Clinical 3T MRI Lands in Rochester
Rochester, NY, 13 February 2007: The region’s first 3 Tesla magnetic
resonance scanner ( MRI ) for clinical use is now available in Rochester.
Located at the
University of Rochester Medical Center’s University Imaging at Science Park,
the new MRI brings with it important tools to help physicians improve the
accuracy of diagnoses and treatments of broad categories of diseases including
stroke, brain tumors, epilepsy, musculoskeletal and heart disease.
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World’s First Commercial Quantum Computer Demonstrated
Vancouver, BC, 13 February 2007: The world’s first commercially viable
quantum computer was unveiled and demonstrated today in Silicon Valley by
D-Wave Systems, Inc., a
privately-held Canadian firm headquartered near Vancouver.
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AMSC's Wire Utilized by Hyundai to Successfully
Develop Fault Current Limiter
Westborough, MA, 13 February
2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, announced today that Hyundai
Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (Hyundai)
has achieved world record performance levels for fault current limiters (FCL),
which it developed utilizing AMSC's 344S superconductors. Fault current
limiters act as high-voltage surge protectors for power grids to increase
reliability and overall efficiency in the operation of power grids.
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Keck gives Rice $1.4M to probe quantum matter
Houston, TX, 12 February 2007: The
W.M. Keck Foundation
has awarded Rice University
$1.4 million to probe one of the most elusive and mysterious areas of modern
physics – the bizarre world of high-temperature superconductors, quantum
magnets, and other solid-state materials that have "strongly correlated"
electrons.
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Japan and Euratom sign up for fusion cooperation
Tokyo, Japan, 12 February 2007: An agreement creating a privileged
partnership between Japan and
Euratom in fusion
energy research was signed on 5 February in Tokyo.
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Niche Applications Continue
to Drive the Development of SQUIDs
Palo Alto, CA, 12 February 2007:
Magnetic sensors have come a long way from purely serving navigational
applications to being today's industrial workhorse. The technology for
sensing magnetic fields has evolved due to the ever-increasing need for
improved sensitivity, smaller form factor and compatibility with
electronic systems.
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Physicists set 'speed
limit' for future superconducting magnet
Evanston, IL, 11 February 2007: A
research team led by a
Northwestern University physicist has identified a high-temperature
superconductor -- Bi-2212, a compound containing bismuth -- as a material that
might be suitable for the new wires needed to one day build the most powerful
superconducting magnet in the world, a 30 Tesla magnet.
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ICFA Releases GDE Reference Design Report for the International Linear Collider
Beijing, China, 8 February 2007: The International Committee for Future
Accelerators (ICFA) today announced the release of the Reference Design Report (RDR)
for the International Linear Collider (ILC),
a proposed future particle accelerator.
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AMSC
Receives D-VAR(R) Order from Suzlon Energy for Australian Wind Farm
Westborough, MA, 6 February 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, announced today it has
received an order from Suzlon Energy Australia Pty. Ltd. (SEA) for a
non-superconducting Dynamic VAR (D-VAR) system for Australia's Hallett Wind
Farm. When completed, Hallett will have 94.5 megawatts (MW) of capacity and will
be one of Australia's largest wind farms.
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Department of Energy Requests $24.3 Billion for FY 2008
Budget
Washington, DC, 5 February 2007:
U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today announced President
Bush’s $24.3 billion budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE)
for Fiscal Year 2008. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy budget requests $1.24 billion, $60 million (5 percent) more than the FY
2007 request. The DOE’s Office of Science budget incorporates $428 million
in funding for basic research in nuclear fusion.
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Fiscal 2008 Department of Defense Budget Released
Washington, DC, 5 February 2007: President George W. Bush today sent
to Congress his defense budget for fiscal 2008. The budget requests $481.4
billion in discretionary authority for the Department of Defense base budget, an
11.3 percent increase over the projected enacted level for fiscal 2007, for real
growth of 8.6 percent; and $141.7 billion to continue the fight in the Global
War on Terror (GWOT) in fiscal 2008.
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AMSC Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2007 Financial Results
Westborough, MA, 1 February 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, today reported financial
results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31, 2006.
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