Unraveling the mysteries of exotic superconductors
Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory are using specialized techniques to help unravel the mysteries of a new type of superconductor that was discovered in 2008.
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NASA’s KSC celebrates 50th anniversary
On July 1, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida celebrated 50 years of launching humans and machines to other planets and into low Earth orbit.
Niowave dedicates $10 million expansion facility
Niowave, Inc. dedicated its $10 million expansion facility on July 3, 2012.
Former SSC staffer: “We could have found it first.”
Dr. Michael T. Gamble, a former staff member of Los Alamos National Laboratory who contributed to management of a collaboration at the SSC, comments on the impact the loss of the SSC has had on American science.
Asymmetry may provide clue to superconductivity
Scientists offered new details regarding intriguing similarities between the quirky electronic properties of a new iron-based high-temperature superconductor (HTS) and its copper-based cousins in the journal Nature (June 21, 2012).
Henry Glyde appointed to named professorship
Henry Glyde has been named Unidel Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, effective September 1. Glyde is a Rhodes Scholar with research interests in low temperature physics and neutron scattering, quantum and classical liquids in disorder and confinement, Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum Monte Carlo methods.
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Dewar
A dewar is a type of cryostat named after Sir James Dewar, the researcher who first developed the concept of a vacuum insulated container with silvered walls to reflect thermal radiation. Dewar was the first to liquefy hydrogen, and he created the device to store his discovery. The thermos bottle...
Stirling and Gifford-McMahon Cryocoolers
Stirling and Gifford-McMahon (GM) cryocoolers are two of the most commonly used cryocoolers in cryogenics. Both devices have a significant industrial base and operate at a wide range of temperatures and capacities. The thermodynamic cycles for both of these cryocoolers are quite similar. The Stirling cycle consists of a compressor,...
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
A significant commercial application of cryogenics is the liquefaction, transport and storage of natural gas. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is generally 95 percent methane with a few percent ethane and much lower concentrations of propane and butane. LNG liquefies at 111.6 K. Unlike many applications of cryogenics, the motivation for...
Cryogenic Electronics
Randall Kirschman, consulting physicist, Mountain View, California ExtElect@gmail.com Cryogenic electronics—the operation of electronic devices, circuits, and systems at cryogenic temperatures—has been a valuable technology for decades. Cryogenic electronics (also referred to as low-temperature electronics, or cold electronics) can be based on semiconductive devices, on superconductive devices, or on a combination...
Particle Physics: High Energy Physics
Cryogenics and High-Energy Physics 1. From symmetry magazine: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000627: Cryogenics is the study of how materials behave at temperatures near absolute zero. In high-energy particle accelerators, such frigid temperatures reduce the electrical resistance of wires in superconducting magnets, increasing the magnet strength and allowing faster particle acceleration. The same holds...
HTS Degaussing Systems
From the Spring 2009 issue of Cold Facts (Volume 25, Number 2): Thanks to a joint project by the US Navy and a number of industry partners, high temperature superconducting (HTS) technology is now at the heart of an advanced degaussing system aboard the USS Higgins at the naval station...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
From http://www.superconductors.org: An area where superconductors can perform a life-saving function is in the field of biomagnetism. Doctors need a non-invasive means of determining what’s going on inside the human body. By impinging a strong superconductor-derived magnetic field into the body, hydrogen atoms that exist in the body’s water and...
Southern California companies doing cryogenic hardening of engine parts?
Do you have any information on where to find companies in Southern California that do cryogenic hardening of engine parts?