Superconductivity News Forum (SNF)
SNF Issue No. 39
January 31, 2017
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHT
PLENARY AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
From the 1st Asian ICMC-CSSJ50-Conference, Kanazawa, November 2016
APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY CONFERENCE 2016:
Additional Presentation and Preprints
APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY CONFERENCE 2016:
Winners and Runners-up of the SNF Best Contributed Preprint Contest
FOREWORD
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY HIGHLIGHT
STH46
Hydrogen-Free Liquid-Helium Recovery Plants: The Solution for Low-Temperature Flow Impedance Blocking
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PLENARY AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS
From the 1st Asian ICMC-CSSJ50-Conference, Kanazawa, November 2016
RP88
Application Driven Superconducting Wire and Cable Development and Application Activities/Prospects in Europe
RP87
Application Driven Superconducting Wires Development and Future Prospects in US
RP86
Development of High-Tc superconductor Applications in New Zealand: Present Status and Future Prospect
RP85
RP84
Application of Superconductivity & Related Cryogenics in India: Present & Future Prospect
RP83
APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY CONFERENCE 2016:
Additional Presentation and Preprints
ELECTRONICS
ST568
Properties of Unshunted and Resistively Shunted Nb/AlOx-Al/Nb Josephson Junctions with Critical Current Densities from 0.1 mA/μm2 to 1 mA/μm2
ST567
AC-Biased Shift Registers as Fabrication Process Benchmark Circuits and Flux Trapping Diagnostic Tool
MATERIALS AND CONDUCTORS
ST566
Heat Shrunk Polyethylene Terephthalate as a Dielectric Material for HTS Power Cables
APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY CONFERENCE 2016:
Winners and Runners-up of the SNF Best Contributed Preprint Contest
ELECTRONICS
ST557
Optimization of Transition Edge Sensor Arrays for Cosmic Microwave Background Observations with the South Pole Telescope (Contest Winner)
ST538
A 220-GHz Compact SIS Receiver Module Utilizing a Broadband High-Gain Ultra-Low-Power IF Amplifier (Contest Winner and ASC Best Student Paper 1st Prize Winner)
ST556
Reduction of the Supply Current of Single-flux-quantum Time-to-digital Converters by Current Recycling Techniques for the Operation in Cryo-cooler (Contest Winner)
ST555
Synthesis Flow for Cell-Based Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron Structural Circuit Generation with HDL Backend Verification (Contest Winner)
ST554
Demonstration of Signal Transmission Between Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametrons and Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum Circuits Using Superconductive Microstrip Lines (Contest Runner-Up)
ST553
Design and Implementation of a 16-Word by 1-Bit Register File Using Adiabatic Quantum Flux Parametron Logic (Contest Runner-Up)
ST552
Design and Implementation of an SFQ-based Single-chip FFT Processor (Contest Runner-Up)
ST551
Energy-Efficient and Compact ERSFQ Decoder for Cryogenic RAM (Contest Runner-Up)
ST550
ST549
Microwave Loss Measurements of Copper-Clad Superconducting Niobium Microstrip Resonators on Flexible Polyimide Substrates (Contest Runner-Up, not presented at ASC; submission to TASC Special Issue against fee)
LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS
ST565
Impact of Remanent Magnetic Field on the Heat Load of Original CEBAF Cryomodule (Contest Winner)
ST564
Heating and Loading Process Improvement for Indium Inserted Mechanical Lap Joint of REBCO Tapes (Contest Winner)
ST563
Training Behaviour of the Main Dipoles in the Large Hadron Collider (Contest Runner-Up)
ST562
Effect of Mechanical Support Conditions of Winding on the Strain Development of a Composite MgB2 Based Full Body MRI Coil (Contest Runner-Up)
ST561
Monitoring Electrical and Thermal Characteristics of HTS Cable Systems via Time-Frequency Domain Reflectometry (Contest Runner-Up)
ST560
Design and Manufacturing of a Multistage Cooled Current Lead for Superconducting High Current DC Busbars in Industrial Applications (Contest Runner-Up)
ST559
ST558
Fully Automated AC Susceptometer for milli-Kelvin Temperatures in a DynaCool PPMS (Contest Runner-Up)
MATERIALS AND CONDUCTORS
ST548
Effects of Filament Size on Critical Current Density in Overpressure Processed Bi-2212 Round Wire (Contest Runner-Up)
ST547
Ultra-small Diameter Round REBCO Wire with Robust Mechanical Properties (Contest Runner-Up)
ST546
A Public Database of High-Temperature Superconductor Critical Current Data (Contest Runner-Up)