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 Superconductor Week Headlines - Issue 2106

 

American Superconductor 36.5 MW Motor Passes Factory Acceptance Tests

Fermilab Magnet Support Ruptures, Fails LHC Quench Test

  • Condition of Magnet Still Unknown

California Awards SC Power Systems $500,000 for Fault Current Limiter

  • Two More FCLs to be Installed in May

American Superconductor Consolidates Wires and SuperMachines Units

  • AMSC Eliminates 37 Employees
  • AMSC Reiterates Strategy Focusing on HTS Wires and Licensing
  • HTS Motor Project Illustrates AMSC Outsourcing Strategy

AMSC Improves Performance and Length of 2G HTS Wire

Sumitomo Electric to Offer 180A BSCCO 1G HTS Wire

Cornell Reaches 57 MV/m with Niobium Cavity for ILC

Zenergy Reports Preliminary 2006 Financial Results

Haught New HTS Program Manager for DOE

  • Daley Retires After Heading HTS Program Since Inception

MRI Creator Lauterbur Dies

Cornell University Maps Nanostripe Structures in HTS

  • Technique Suggested by Philip Anderson

Brookhaven's New Crystal Furnace Allows Insights into LBCO

  • LBCO Demonstrates Non-Superconducting Pseudo-Gap
  • Dynamic Stripes May be Important to HTS Phenomenon

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Uses MRI to Control Probe

UK Research Councils Merge

 

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 Superconductor Week Headlines - Issue 2105

 

D-Wave Claims Demonstration of Superconducting Quantum Computer

  >>Interview with Geordie Rose of D-Wave

  •      Computer Designed for NP-Complete Problems

  •      Superconducting Circuit Fabricated by NASA

  •      Experts Question Performance of Computer

Zenergy Power, Converteam Enter HTS Wind Generator Agreement

  •      8 MW Generator Under Development

  •      Companies Assert Wind Energy is Largest Market for HTS

US Presidential Budget Request for HTS Drops in 2008, Wire R&D Refocused

  •      CCAS Calls for $40 Million for 2008

  •      2007 Budget Remains Flat

Cambridge Says MgB2 Good for Fault Current Limiters


HTS Device for Detecting Cancer Approved for Clinical Trial

  •      Cost and Procedural Advantages Expected

  •      Device Approved for Clinical Trials in UK

  •      Trials Expected in EU and Japan

AMSC Acquires Energy Technology Company

  •      AMSC Expects $55 million in Power Electronics Revenues

STI Reports $29.6 Million Loss for 2006

  •      Auditor Re-iterates Warning that STI May Not Continue as Going Concern

EU Directive May Limit MRI Use

 

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