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December 2006
GE and Sumitomo Electric Industries
enter HTS research collaboration
Niskayuna, NY, December 20: GE
Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General
Electric Company, today announced it has reached agreement on a collaborative
research effort with Sumitomo Electric Industries (SEI)
to develop industrial equipment using higher temperature superconducting
materials. The discovery of higher temperature materials is seen as critical to
enabling more cost-effective and widespread industrial applications of
superconducting technology.
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American Superconductor Provides
Updated Financial Forecasts for Fiscal 2007
Westborough, MA, December 18: American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC),
a leading energy technologies company, announced today that it is revising its
forecasted operating results for the third quarter and the full fiscal year 2007
as a result of several factors, summarized below. Net Losses are expected
to increase due to timing, government funding issues and higher than planned
expenses on navy motor development program
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CERN
Confident of LHC start-up in 2007
Geneva, Switzerland, December 15: Delegates attending the 140th meeting of CERN* Council
today heard a confident report from the Laboratory about the scheduled start-up
of the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collier (LHC),
in 2007.
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New magnetic polymers may advance spintronics technologies
Argonne, IL, December 15:
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have
pioneered a new approach for making magnetic polymers that are held together
with very strong hydrogen bonds. These polymers contain an innovative bifluoride,
HF2–, building block that allows a magnetically ordered state to be
obtained. The development may help lead to new techniques for faster and more
versatile computer chips, among other applications.
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European Advanced Superconductors Acquires Powder-in-Tube HTS technology from
SMI
Hanau, Germany,
December 14: On December 1st of this year, European Advanced
Superconductors GmbH & Co. KG (EAS)
in Hanau, Germany, acquired the Powder in Tube (PIT) Technology used for the
manufacturing of high current superconductors from ShapeMetal Innovation (SMI)
in Enschede, Netherlands.
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Cheaper MRI Machines and Ultra-Fast Internet Switches Top the List of Predicted
Superconductivity-Based Breakthroughs For 2007
Elmsford, NY, December 13: Low-cost MRI
machines, super-fast Internet routers, and high-capacity power lines top the
list of likely breakthroughs in the field of superconductivity in 2007,
according to a ‘Top-10’
forecast list released today by Elie K. Track, Ph.D., senior partner,
HYPRES Inc., a leading
developer of superconducting microelectronics technology.
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Air Products and Linde Pair to Pursue Work on
Proposed International Linear Collider
Lehigh Valley, PA, December 12: Air
Products and Linde today announced the signing of a Teaming Agreement to
pursue refrigeration services for the proposed International Linear Collider
(ILC). A site for the ILC has yet to be announced, however, Production
Test Site refrigerators and related equipment for the ILC may be selected as
early as 2007, with overall project bids to occur in 2010.
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U.S. Army Awards HYPRES $1.5M To Develop Digital RF
Electronics For MILSATCOM
Elmsford, N, December 11:
HYPRES Inc., a leading
developer of superconducting microelectronics (SME) technology and the
All-Digital RFTM product line, received two new
contracts totaling approximately $1.5 million from the U.S. Army’s
Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC)
for work related to the continued development of digital superconductivity
electronics for military satellite communications (MILSATCOM).
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new partners on-board for ITER and European fusion research
Brussels, Belgium, December 8: The
European Commission has concluded with Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Slovakian
institutions association agreements on behalf of
EURATOM, the European
Atomic Energy Community, securing long-term R&D co-operation in the field of
fusion energy across the European Union. Building on a history of successful
collaboration in the field, scientists and research organisations in these
countries will have greater access to Europe’s integrated fusion research
programme and facilities starting in 2007.
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Oxford
Instruments NanoScience, Vector Fields and University of Southampton awarded DTI
grant for advanced HTS materials
Oxon, UK,
December 7: Oxford
Instruments,
leading supplier of high technology tools and systems, announces that it has
been chosen to lead a project that has been awarded a £778,368 grant by the UK’s
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) through the Technology Programme, to
support a £1.55 Million research and development project. The project will be
led by Dr Ziad Melhem of Oxford Instruments and will run over the next three
years. The project entitled “Integrated Modelling Package for Designing Advanced
HTS Materials Applications” will involve collaboration between Oxford
Instruments NanoScience,
Vector Fields Ltd
and University of Southampton.
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International
team successfully launches world’s largest superconducting magnet
Geneva, Switzerland, December 7:
The world’s largest superconducting magnet
was successfully brought online recently as part of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
(LHC), the new particle accelerator scheduled for full scale use in November
2007. The magnet charged and operated successfully on its first attempt. The
magnet, called the Barrel Toroid, provides the powerful magnetic field for
ATLAS, one of the major particle
detectors for LHC.
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American Superconductor Appoints John W. Wood Jr.
to its Board of Directors
Westborough, MA, December 5:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC),
a leading energy technologies company, today announced that John W. Wood Jr. has
been appointed to the company's Board of Directors. Since 2003, Mr. Wood has
been chief executive officer of Analogic Corporation (NASDAQ: ALOG), a leading
designer and manufacturer of medical imaging and security systems. He will
retire from this position effective December 31, 2006. Mr. Wood's addition
expands the American Superconductor Board to nine members, eight of which are
independent.
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FONAR’s European Distributor
Sells its 3rd FONAR Upright Multi-Position MRI
Melville, NY, December 8:
FONAR Corporation, The
Inventor of MR Scanning™, announced today, that
its European distributor, Tecserena GmbH, has sold its 3rd FONAR Upright™
Multi-Position™ MRI. The unit is to be installed
in a diagnostic outpatient center in Hanover, Germany.
Tecserena, which is
based in Cologne, Germany has been FONAR’s
European distributor since the beginning of 2006.
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Army
Demonstrates ‘Most Significant Change To Satellite Communications Worldwide’
in 30 Years
Elmsford, NY,
December 1: U.S. Army researchers and their industry partners
accomplished with a one-centimeter chip made with hyper-cooled niobium what
has always required racks of expensive satellite communications gear in a
breakthrough demonstration Nov. 28 in Elmsford, N.Y.
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Future Director of TRIUMF
Approved
Vancouver, BC, December 1: Today the TRIUMF Board of Management
unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. Nigel Lockyer as the next Director
of TRIUMF. Dr. Lockyer comes to TRIUMF from the University of Pennsylvania where
he is a Professor of Physics.
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