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June
2005
5-Megawatt American
Superconductor HTS Ship Propulsion Motor Passes Load and Ship Mission
Tests
June 28 -- American Superconductor
Corporation, a leading electricity solutions company, today announced
that the prototype 5-megawatt (MW) High Temperature Superconductor (HTS)
ship propulsion motor it designed, developed, and built for the United
States Navy has successfully completed the Navy's rigorous initial test
program. Under the Navy's supervision, the 5-MW HTS motor successfully
completed load and ship mission profile dynamic simulation tests which
were conducted at the Navy's Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS) at
Florida State University in Tallahassee. CAPS also repeated and
confirmed the IEEE-115 no-load as well as partial load tests that had
been previously conducted at the ALSTOM facility in Rugby, England.
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MIT Physicists Create New Form Of Matter
June 28 -- MIT scientists have brought a
supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the
first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows
high-temperature superfluidity. Their work is closely related to the
superconductivity of electrons in metals. Observations of superfluids
may help solve lingering questions about high-temperature
superconductivity, which has widespread applications for magnets,
sensors and energy-efficient transport of electricity, said Wolfgang
Ketterle, a Nobel laureate who heads the MIT group.
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Whirling Atoms Dance Into Physics Textbooks
June 24 -- NASA-funded
researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.,
have created a new form of superfluid matter. This research may lead to
improved superconducting materials, useful for energy-efficient electricity
transport and better medical diagnostic tools. The research marks the
first time scientists have positively created a friction-free superfluid
using a gas of fermionic atoms, atoms with an odd number of electrons,
protons and neutrons. more>>
UK’s Brian
Foster Appointed European Regional Director for International Linear Collider’s
Global Design Effort
June 20 -- Barry Barish, director of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for the
proposed International Linear Collider, announced the appointment of British
physicist Brian Foster as European regional director for the GDE. Foster will
join Barish; Gerald Dugan, North American regional director; and Fumihiko
Takasaki, regional director for Asia, to form the GDE’s Directorate.
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Strange physics experiment is unraveling structure of proton
June 17 -- An international
team of nuclear physicists has determined that particles called strange quarks
do, indeed, contribute to the ordinary properties of the proton.
Quarks are subatomic particles that form the building blocks of atoms. How
quarks assemble into protons and neutrons, and what holds them together, is not
clearly understood. New experimental results are providing part of the answer.
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AIST Announces
Installation of Noiseless Superconducting Detector Array for Mass Spectrometry
June 16 -- Dr. Masataka Ohkubo,
leader and his colleagues of the Super-Spectroscopy System Research Group (SSSRG),
the Research Institute of Instrumentation Frontier (RIIF), the National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), an independent
administrative institution, have implemented the installation technology for
multi-cable (involving 100 coaxial cables) leading fast pulse signals out of 0.3
K cryogenic environment to room temperature one, needed for the development of
advanced mass spectrometers. more>>
Superconducting nanowires show ability to measure magnetic fields
June 16 -- By using DNA molecules
as scaffolds, scientists have created superconducting nanodevices that
demonstrate a new type of quantum interference and could be used to measure
magnetic fields and map regions of superconductivity. Researchers at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have fabricated and studied
nanostructures consisting of pairs of suspended superconducting wires as tiny as
3 to 4 molecular diameters (typically 5 to 15 nanometers) in width. The team
consisted of physics professors Alexey Bezryadin and Paul Goldbart, and graduate
students David Hopkins and David Pekker. Their work is described in the June 17
issue of the journal Science. more>>
NASA Investigates
Revolutionary Space Exploration Concepts
June 15 -- The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) has selected its 2005
Phase 1 awards. The Phase 1 awards are 12, six-month study proposals beginning
in September that could revolutionize space exploration. If the concepts
prove feasible, space explorers may one day deploy superconducting cables that
magnetically inflate to form the structure of a space telescope one kilometer
across; launch a satellite with a magnetic scoop to mine the radiation belts
surrounding Earth for antimatter fuel; or enjoy a feast from a food replicator
that creates a variety of meals from a few common ingredients.
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Statement from
David Paratore, Former President of American Superconductor
June 15 -- "Monday's action by American Superconductor (Nasdaq: AMSC)
is an egregious case of wrongful termination orchestrated by Chairman and CEO,
and now President, Greg Yurek. This is a personal vendetta on many levels. No
sexual harassment occurred and the facts will clearly present a vastly different
story when we take this to arbitration. more>>
McDaniel to Lead Ener1 Nanotech Business
to Commercialize Thin Film Superconductor Technologies
June 14 --
Ener1, Inc. (OTC Bulletin
Board: ENEI) has named J. Gary McDaniel chief executive officer of its
nanotechnology subsidiary, NanoEner, Inc. McDaniel has over 25 years of senior
management and operations experience, most recently as president and CEO of
Nanox, Inc., a company that develops nanostructured materials. He is charged
with transitioning the nanotechnology operation from R&D to applications
engineering, product design, manufacturing and sales.
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American
Superconductor Announces Termination of President David Paratore
Jun 13 -- American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC) today
announced that it has terminated the employment of David Paratore, President and
Chief Operating Officer of the Company due to issues of conduct and judgment on
the part of Mr. Paratore in connection with his relationship with a female
employee, who has made allegations of sexual harassment.
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Russian scientists
create steel-strong superconductor
June 6 -- A new class of nanocrystalline materials was created in
Russia, the Expert weekly said. It reported on the results of the 4th Russian
Innovations Contest. The "best innovation project" comes from academician Andrei
Bochvar National Inorganic Materials Research Institute in Moscow. The title is
Nanostructural Electrical Wires with Anomalous High Strength and Electrical
Conductivity. more>>
NIST
Photon Detectors Have Record Efficiency
June 2
-- Sensors that detect
and count single photons, the smallest quantities of light, with 88 percent
efficiency have been demonstrated by physicists at the National Institute of
Standard and Technology (NIST). This record efficiency is an important step
toward making reliable single photon detectors for use in practical quantum
cryptography systems, the most secure method known for ensuring the privacy of a
communications channel. more>>
Condumex to Build
High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Cable System with HTS Wire from American
Superconductor
June 1 -- American Superconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: AMSC), a
leading electricity solutions company, announced today that it has received an
order for its first generation (1G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire
from Condumex, the largest wire and cable manufacturer in Mexico. The HTS wire
will be utilized by Condumex to manufacture and install an HTS power cable
system in a Mexico City, Mexico electrical substation.
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