Scientists from the University of Tübingen, Germany, working with colleagues from Tel Aviv University and the University of Kiel, Germany, have proposed [1] and experimentally demonstrated [2] a new type of superconducting element – named the phi-Josephson (?-Josephson) junction. Implemented in cryogenic devices, this element will make superconducting electronic circuits...

Special Issue No. 22 of the European Superconductivity News Forum (ESNF) is devoted to papers presented at the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) 2012 held in Portland OR, from October 7 to 12, 2012.

Air Products recently launched a new microsite with information for food processors who are currently freezing or considering freezing product.

The first part of Dr. Peter Kittel's "Introduction to Pulse Tube Thermodynamics" was featured in the Fall 2012 issue of Cold Facts, which will be available for download soon.

Dr. Joel Ullom, 2012 CSA Roger W. Boom awardee, is the NIST Project Leader for superconducting calorimeter development and has worked in the fields of low temperature sensors, low temperature electronics and cryogenic systems since 1994.

Physicists describe how they have synthesized a new material that belongs to the iron-selenide class of superconductors, called LixFe2Se2(NH3)y, in a paper about to be published in EPJ B. The work was carried out by Ernst-Wilhelm Scheidt from the University of Augsburg and colleagues.