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November
2005
SatCon Selected by General Atomics for Controller Design Task on Superconducting DC Homopolar Motor Program
Boston, MA, Nov. 22: SatCon Technology Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of power electronics for various markets, today announced that its SatCon Applied Technology division has been awarded a contract with General Atomics to join the team that will develop a new modular 40 megawatt power converter that will power and control a full-scale superconducting DC Homopolar Motor.
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Korean Cable Demonstration Project Selects American Superconductor as Sole Supplier of High Temperature Superconductor Wire
Westborough, MA, Nov. 21: American Superconductor Corporation, a leading electricity solutions company, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute
to be an international collaborator on Korea's Development of Advanced Power Systems by Applied Superconductivity technologies
program. AMSC will be the sole supplier of high temperature superconductor
wire providing 14 km of first generation HTS wire for the project. AMSC expects to ship the wire before the end of calendar year 2005.
LS Cable of Korea is responsible for the development and manufacture of the cable, terminations and cryogenics system.
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Copper Ridges Nearly Double
X-ray Sensor Performance
Gaithersburg, MD, Nov 17: A series of copper ridges nearly doubles the
resolution of experimental X-ray sensors, enabling more precise identification
of the X-ray "fingerprints" of different atoms, researchers at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report. The sensors are
expected to be powerful tools for astronomy, such as in determining the
temperature and motion of matter in space, and for semiconductor materials
analysis, helping to differentiate between nanoscale contaminant particles on
silicon wafers.
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American Superconductor Awarded Contract Amendment by Department of Energy for Long Island Power Authority Cable Project
Westborough, MA, Nov. 16: American Superconductor Corporation, a leading electricity solutions company, today announced that it has finalized a contract amendment with the U.S. Department of Energy. Under the terms of the amendment, the DOE will increase its share of the overall approved budget for the Long Island Power Authority cable project by $8.3 million. The amendment adds $8.3 million to AMSC's backlog in the current quarter. According to the Company, approximately $3 million of this added backlog is expected to be recognized as revenue in the Company's fiscal year ending March 31, 2006.
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American Superconductor
Receives Order for Dynamic VAR Compensator System from Grid Operator in
Iceland
Westborough,
MA, Nov. 14: American Superconductor Corporation, a leading electricity
solutions company, today announced an order for a 40 MVAR (mega
volt-ampere-reactive) Dynamic VAR Compensator (DVC) system for a
transmission grid in Iceland run by Landsnet, an independent power transmission
company. The DVC system will be installed at the Hryggstekkur substation in
Iceland
. The substation is located near a new aluminum plant that will add
approximately 540MW of new electrical load to the power grid. The
DVC system - an extension of AMSC's D-VAR ("Dynamic-VAR") product
line - will provide dynamic voltage control and regulation, and will support
overall power network stability. American Superconductor expects to
ship the DVC system in the summer of 2006 for installation and commissioning in
the fall of 2006.
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“Italy
at Cern”: Italian High Technology Industry Protagonist at
Geneva
Research Centre
Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 11: The Italian industry will be protagonist
from 14th to 17th November thanks to the exhibition “
Italy
at Cern”: an excellent shop-window where the most technologically qualified
companies will present their avant-garde products. The “
Italy
at Cern” exhibition takes place every two or three years. It is organized by
Sandro Centro, Infn researcher and Industrial Liaison Officer at Cern, and by
Federico Ferrini, scientific officer at International Organizations of Geneva,
with the collaboration of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for
Switzerland
.
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American Superconductor Reports Fiscal 2006 Second Quarter and Six-Month Results
Westborough, MA, Nov. 9: American Superconductor Corporation, a leading electricity solutions company, today reported financial results for its fiscal second quarter and six months ended September 30, 2005.
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Finding Superconductors That Can Take the Heat:
Pitt Researchers Advance Quest for Higher-Temperature Superconducting Materials
Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 8: The search for superconductors that function at higher temperatures has taken a step forward with new findings from University of Pittsburgh professor of physics and astronomy Yadin Y. Goldschmidt and former Pitt postdoctoral associate Eduardo Cuansing that were published in the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
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UCSD Physicist Proposes New
Way to Rank Scientists' Output
San Diego, CA, Nov. 7:
Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the yardstick by which academic scientists compare their work with their colleagues. But
what is the best measure of a scientist's worth? the total number of his or her published papers? Or the average quality of those papers, based on the number of times they are cited or the reputation of the journals in which they are published? Jorge E. Hirsch, a physics professor at UCSD, devised an alternative that appears to be a simpler and more reliable way to rank scientific output within a discipline than any now in use.
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ACerS-NIST Announce the Release of the Phase Equilibria Diagrams CD-ROM Database Version 3.1
Westerville, OH, Nov. 4: The American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announce
the release of the ACerS-NIST Phase Equilibria Diagrams CD-ROM Database Version 3.1.
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FONAR Sells Upright MRI Scanner to New Jersey Customer
Long Island, NY, Nov. 3: FONAR Corporation, The MRI Specialist(TM), announced today that it has sold its sixth Upright(TM) MRI in New Jersey. FONAR has sold its Upright(TM) MRI in 23 states and in four (4) international markets.
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Varian, Inc. Reports Record Sales and EPS From Continuing Operations
Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 2: Varian, Inc.
today reported fourth quarter 2005 non-GAAP (pro forma) net earnings of $16.1 million, or $0.50 pro forma diluted earnings per share, compared to $14.5 million, or $0.41 pro forma diluted earnings per share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004. On a GAAP basis, net earnings in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005 were $14.6 million, or $0.46 diluted earnings per share, compared to $12.5 million, or $0.35 diluted earnings per share, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004.
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Superconductor Technologies Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2005 Results
Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 2: Superconductor Technologies
Inc., a leading provider of high performance infrastructure products for wireless voice and data applications, today announced results for the quarter and nine months ended October 1, 2005.
Total net revenues for the third quarter were $3.9 million, a decrease of 46 percent, compared to $7.3 million for the year ago third quarter.
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Superconducting Magnet
Attracts Molecular Research at Brandeis
Waltham, MA, Nov. 2: One of the newest - and unequivocally the coolest -
pieces of real estate on the Brandeis University campus is a facility containing
a state-of-the-art superconducting magnet for use in researching biological
macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, enzymes and other proteins. The installation of
the gleaming 800 MHz German-made Bruker magnet was recently completed in a
specially built facility on campus. Weighing in at roughly seven and a half
tons, the magnetic resonance (MR) spectrometer was funded by a $2 million grant
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a stiff competition among
research universities.
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Chubu Electric Power Boosts Speed of Yttrium-based Superconductive Wire Synthesis
Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 20: Chubu Electric Power has made a breakthrough in faster synthesizing
of yttrium-based superconductive wires. The company has improved on the conventional multi-stage wire synthesis technology to achieve a synthesizing speed of 50m/hr for wires with a current density of 2 million A/cm2, fast enough to make commercial applications feasible; the previous speed was 10m/hr.
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Better Airplanes? UM Findings Could Improve Titanium
Alloys
College Park, MD, Oct. 20: Titanium alloys are an important material in products like biomedical implants, golf clubs and aircraft because the crystalline materials within these alloys impart high strength, low density, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility. But titanium alloys will deform over time, even under relatively low stresses at room temperature.
Now, new findings by University of Maryland engineers suggest that, by altering the chemistry or microstructure of these alloys, it is possible to make titanium components that are more resistant to deformation. Improving the alloys’ performance could expand its industrial and commercial uses.
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