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December
2005
Department
of Defense Awards HTS Contracts to American Superconductor and Superpower, Inc
Washington, DC, Dec. 28: American Superconductor
Corp. is being awarded a $13,557,500 cost reimbursement with cost share contract modification. Superpower
Inc. is being awarded a $10,697,440 cost reimbursement with cost share contract modification.
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Energy Department Requests Proposals for Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Washington, DC, Dec. 27: The Department of Energy’s Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have issued a joint Request for Proposals for advanced scientific computing research. DOE expects to fund $67 million annually for three years to five years under its Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) research program.
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Science's
Breakdown of the Year: US Particle Physics
Washington, DC, Dec. 22: With the cancellation of two major experiments and talk of an early closing for one of the three existing particle colliders, U.S. particle physics is Science's breakdown of 2005. As the U.S. program founders, particle physics research around the world could suffer. A bit of good particle physics news did emerge in 2005, however – researchers around the world remain committed to building the International Linear Collider, a multibillion-dollar global facility that may be the key to the future of particle physics.
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Ultracold Test Produces Long-Sought Quantum Mix: Unbalanced Superfluid Could be
Akin to Exotic Matter Found in Quark Star
Houston, TX, Dec. 22: In the bizarre and rule-bound world of quantum physics, every tiny spec of matter has something called "spin" - an intrinsic trait like eye color - that cannot be changed and which dictates, very specifically, what other bits of matter the spec can share quantum space with. When fermions, the most antisocial type of quantum particle, do get together, they pair up in a wondrous dance that enables such things as superconductivity.
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Spallation Neutron Source Amazing Science Facts
Oak Ridge, TN, Dec. 22: The New Year is bringing the science community a grand present: The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. On schedule for completion in 2006, the Department of Energy's new science facility will provide researchers with the world's most powerful and most advanced tool for analyzing a host of materials with neutrons.
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Superconductor Fault Current Limiter Successfully Demonstrated for First Time in China Power Grid
Westborough, MA, Dec. 20: American Superconductor Corporation, a leading electricity solutions company, and China's Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) today announced that IEE has successfully demonstrated a superconductor-based fault current limiter -- essentially a high voltage surge protector -- for the first time in a power grid in China.
Since August 2005, IEE's fault current limiter device has successfully suppressed large spikes of current in the grid that were over five times the normal levels.
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Probing
the Universe: New Acceleration for New Science at the Cockcroft Institute
Warrington, UK, Dec 19: The Cockcroft Institute today announces two
important milestones in its development as an international centre for research
and development (R&D) in Accelerator Science and Technology. Thus a major
enhancement of the UK's research thrust in the fundamental science of the
structure of matter and the origin of the Universe is nearly in place in
England's Northwest at the Daresbury International Science Park.
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Another
World-Record Achievement for National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Tallahassee, FL, Dec. 14: The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is ending its year with another achievement of international importance as engineers and technicians this week completed testing of a world-record magnet.
With the completion of a new, 35-tesla magnet, the highest-field "resistive" magnet in the world is located at the Tallahassee facility. The state-of-the-art magnet, which incorporates "Florida-Bitter" technology invented at the lab, was designed and built on-site and is immediately available for research.
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CardioMag Confirms Trading on London's Stock Exchange Schenectady,
NY, Dec. 14: CardioMag Imaging, Inc., the developer of a new non-invasive Magnetocardiograph ("MCG") heart function visualization product for the
cardiology community, announced today that its common stock has been admitted to trading on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange.
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ARKeX Raises 5.5 Million Pounds Sterling to Accelerate Production of Revolutionary Survey Technology
Cambridge, England, Dec. 14: ARKeX, developer of proprietary gravity gradiometry technology, has clinched a deal with Chesapeake Energy, one of the largest independent gas producers in the United States, to use its pioneering full tensor gravity gradiometer,
FTGeX, to identify promising geological structures in the U.S. Mid-continent area.
ARKeX, which has a world-class management team with vast experience in instrumentation, exploration geology and signal processing, is also making major strides in the development of its next generation proprietary technology, the EGG, which will be the world's first commercial superconducting gravity gradiometer.
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Magnetic
Transistor Could 'Dial In' Quantum Effects: Physicists Propose Innovative Probe for
Quantum Criticalities
Houston, TX, Dec. 12: A team of theoretical and experimental physicists from Rice University is preparing a unique probe in hopes of "dialing in" elusive quantum states called "quantum criticalities." The team is using nanotechnology to create a probe capable of trapping and tuning a single electron to create the rarified physical state in nearby magnetic electrodes.
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First vortex 'chains' observed
in engineered superconductor
Argonne, IL,
Dec. 9: They look like tiny swirling dust devils on the surface of the
superconductor: "vortices" that appear where magnetic fields interact with the
material. Unlike harmless dust devils, however, vortices can sap a
superconductor's ability to transmit current without resistance. Knowing
how the vortices move and arrange themselves under various temperatures and
magnetic fields, as well as how they are influenced by the physical properties
of the material, is critical in maintaining supercurrent flow.
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Strong Magnetism Creates Two-Dimensional Superconductivity, Says UA Physicist
Tucson, AZ, Dec. 8: A University of Arizona physicist has shown that it should be possible to restrict electrons to two dimensions in space by placing conducting materials within strong magnetic fields. The fundamental discovery is important because it says that superconductivity is stable in this strongly magnetic environment. Stable superconductors are sought by energy, transportation, medical and computing industries.
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Maglev Train Exceeds 500 Kilometers per Hour in World's First Test Run Utilizing High Temperature Superconductor Wire
Westborough, MA, Dec. 7: American Superconductor Corporation announced today that Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) successfully ran its magnetically levitated train system for the first time utilizing high temperature superconductor (HTS) electromagnetic coils powered by American Superconductor's HTS wire. The maglev train attained speeds as high as 500 kilometers per hour (approximately 311 miles per hour), while levitated about 10 centimeters (4 inches) above its "track."
The test runs are an important step in the commercialization process for maglev electric transportation systems.
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Crystal of Holes Discovered: Physicists at Kiel University
Discover an Unusual State of Matter
Kiel, Germany, Dec 5: The existence of an unusual state of matter, a crystal that consists entirely of holes, has been proven at Kiel University. As reported in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters (December 2nd , 2005), an international team led by Professor Michael Bonitz has, for the first time, demonstrated with the help of extensive computer simulations that this exotic phenomenon, the existence of which was hitherto only a subject of speculation, should certainly occur. The physicists have also been able to predict the conditions for its formation.
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Oxford Instruments Announces
Interim Results for 2005/06
Eynsham, UK, Nov 30: Oxford Instruments plc, the advanced instrumentation business, today announced interim results for the six months to 30 September 2005.
Revenue of £75.3m (2004 £66.8m) reflected the increase in orders to £80.9m (2004 £68.1m).
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Oxford Instruments Appoints
Holroyd and Parker to Group Board
Eynsham, UK, Nov 30: Oxford Instruments plc, the high technology tool and systems business, today announces the appointment of Charles Holroyd and Steven Parker to the Group Board with immediate effect.
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ASM International and Oxford Instruments
Sign Licensing Agreement for Atomic Layer Deposition
Bilthoven, the Netherlands and Eynsham, UK, Nov. 29: ASM International N.V.and Oxford Instruments plc, announced that they have signed an agreement granting Oxford Instruments a license on ASM’s patent portfolio relating to Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology. The license includes over 280 issued and published patents and allows Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology to develop new products and processes exploiting ALD technology under ASM’s patents. Terms of the licensing agreement were not disclosed.
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American Superconductor
Receives Follow-on Order from Austrian Wind Turbine Supplier, Windtec, for Wind
Turbine Generator Control Systems
Westborough,
MA, Nov. 29: American Superconductor Corporation, today announced a
follow-on order for its proprietary PowerModule-based wind turbine generator
control systems from Windtec Systemtechnik GmbH (Windtec), a supplier of large
wind turbine components and system technology, based in Klagenfurt, Austria.
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Researchers Solve One Mystery of
High-Temperature Superconductors
Champaign, IL, Nov. 28: An experimental mystery – the origin of the insulating state in a class of materials known as doped Mott insulators – has been solved by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The solution helps explain the bizarre behavior of doped Mott insulators, such as high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors.
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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. Revenues
for the second quarter of fiscal 2006 were $10.9 million, an increase of 14%
compared to revenues of $9.5 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2005.
The net loss for the second quarter was $6.8 million, or $0.21 per share,
compared with a net loss of $4.1 million, or $0.15 per share, for the same
period last year.
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MRI Pioneer Edelstein Wins National Physics Prize
College Park, MD, Nov. 7: The American Institute of Physics
(AIP) has named William Edelstein the winner of its Industrial Applications in Physics Prize "for his pioneering developments leading to commercialization of high-resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for medical applications." Sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and the AIP Corporate Associates, the prize will be given to Edelstein at the 2005 Industrial Physics Forum, being held from November 6-8 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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Bruker
BioSpin MRI New AVANCE™ II MRI Spectrometer Series Offers Signal-to-Noise
Performance Increase
Basel,
Switzerland, Sep. 15: Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH introduces its new
and revolutionary MRI system, the AVANCE II, at the European Society for
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology’s
22nd Annual Meeting. Its scalable receiver and transmitter architecture
will enable new MRI applications in preclinical research and molecular imaging.
A four-fold increase in digital resolution
results in an unmatched dynamic range which, in combination
with multi-array rf coil technologies, raises signal-to-noise ratios to
unsurpassed levels. An order of magnitude
increase in digital receiver bandwidth speeds up acquisition times and
provides MRI image quality that could previously not be obtained.
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