SNF Issue No. 3, January 2008

Issue Date:

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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Editorial Forward

Editorial Forward Issue No. 3

ESNF Editorial Team

Critical Reviews (Invited)

Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage: Status and Perspective

Dr. Pascal Tixador

CR5

Regional News

Activities of the FLUXONICS Society

F.H. Uhlmann and T. Ortlepp

RN4

Science & Technology News - Large Scale Applications (Category 6)

Coil in Coil - Components for the High Voltage Superconducting Resistive Current Limiter CULT 110

Steffen Elschner, Mark Stemmle, Frank Breuer, Heribert Walter, Christian Frohne, Mathias Noe and Joachim Bock

ST24

Analysis of Coupled Electromagnetic-Thermal Effects in Superconducting Accelerator Magnets

Egbert Fischer, Roman Kurnyshov and Petr Shcherbakov

ST22

Temperature rise in a model of resistive HTS element of a fault current limiter

Igor N Dul’kin, Leonid M Fisher, Valery P Ivanov, Alexey V Kalinov, Vladimir A Sidorov and Dmitrii V Yevsin

ST16

Science & Technology News - Conductors and Cables (Category 5)

Narrow Strand YBCO Roebel Cable for Lowered AC Loss

N. J. Long, R. Badcock, P. Beck, M. Mulholland, N. Ross, M. Staines, H. Sun, J. Hamilton, R. G. Buckley

ST26

Simple Calibration Free Method to Measure AC Magnetic Moment and Losses

Leonid M. Fisher, Alexey V. Kalinov and Igor F. Voloshin

ST18

Stable and Unstable Thermo - Current States of High Temperature Superconductors During Current Charging

Vladimir R. Romanovskii, Nikolay A. Lavrov, Vera K. Ozhogina

ST17

Roebel Assembled Coated Conductor Cables (RACC): Ac-Losses and Current Carrying Potential

Antje Frank, Reinhard Heller, Wilfried Goldacker, Andrea Kling, Curt Schmidt

ST15

Status of the High Temperature Superconductor Current Lead Development at the Research Centre Karlsruhe

R. Heller, W.H. Fietz, R. Lietzow

ST12

Science and Technology News - Superconducting Electronics (Radiation Detectors, Junctions, Squid & Cooling, Category 4 & 11)

Fabrication and Characterization of Short Josephson Junctions with Stepped Ferromagnetic Barrier

Uthayasankaran Peralagu and Martin Weides

ST27

Operation of a High-Tc DC-SQUID-Gradiometer on a Non-Metallic Pulse Tube Refrigerator

Christoph Becker, Alexander Steppke, Torsten Koettig, Joachim Gerster, Lars Dörrer, Matthias Thürk, Frank Schmidl and Paul Seidel

ST25

A Parallel/Series Array of Cold-Electron Bolometers with SIN Tunnel Junctions for Cosmology Instruments

L. S. Kuzmin

ST23

Time-Resolved Optical Characterization of Proximized Nano-Bilayers for Ultrafast Photodetector Applications

L. Parlato, G. P. Pepe, D. Pan, C. De Lisio, V. Pagliarulo, A. Cosentino, N. Marrocco, D. Dalena, G. Peluso, A. Barone and R. Sobolewski

ST20

An SIS-based Sideband-Separating Heterodyne Mixer Optimized for the 600 to 720 GHz Band

F. P. Mena, J. W. Kooi, A. M. Baryshev, C. F. J. Lodewijk, R. Hesper, W. Wild, and T. M. Klapwijk

ST19

Quantum Breathers in Coupled Josephson Junctions

Ricardo A. Pinto and Sergej Flach

ST11

Science and Technology News - Material Properties and Characterization (Category 2)

Strong Reduction of the Field-Dependent Microwave Surface Resistance in YBCO with BaZrO3 Inclusions

N. Pompeo, V. Galluzzi, A. Augieri, F. Fabbri, G. Celentano, T. Petrisor, R. Rogai and E. Silva

ST21

Synthesis and Bulk Properties of Oxychloride Superconductor Ca2-xNaxCuO2Cl2

N. D. Zhigadlo, J. Karpinski, S. Weyeneth, R. Khasanov, S. Katrych, P. Wägli and H. Keller

ST14

Pinning Performance of (Nd0.33Eu0.2Gd0.47)Ba2Cu3Oy Single Crystal

M. Jirsa, M. Rames, P. Das, M. R. Koblischka, T. Wolf, U. Hartmann

ST13