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ASC2018: The Applied Superconductivity Conference in Seattle

Published on 17 December 2018

The Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) took place at the Washington State Conference Center in Seattle (USA) from October 28th to November 4th (ASC2018 website). ASC, with more than 1’500 delegates, is the most important event in the field of superconductivity and its applications. The Group of Applied Superconductivity contributed to the scientific program with nine presentations: six orals and three posters. The titles of the contributions are listed here:

  • Electrical and Thermo-Physical Properties of Ni-alloy Reinforced Bi-2223 Conductors, Presenting author: Marco BONURA, UNIGE, contributed oral;
  • Systematic study of the contact resistance between REBCO tapes: pressure dependence in the cases of no-insulation, metal co-winding and metal-insulation, Presenting author: Marco BONURA, UNIGE, contributed poster;
  • Temporal and spatial effects of the screening currents on the field profile of a 4 T REBCO insert coil in background fields of up to 19 T, Presenting author: Matteo ALESSANDRINI, Bruker BioSpin, contributed oral;
  • Properties and microstructure of binary and ternary Nb3Sn superconductors with internally oxidized ZrO2 nanoparticles, Presenting author: Florin BUTA, UNIGE, contributed poster;
  • 3D Thermal-Electric Finite Element Model of a Nb3Sn Coil During Quench, Presenting author: José FERRADAS, UNIGE, contributed oral;
  • Critical Current Degradation of RRP Nb3Sn Strands Under Applied Transversal Loads, Presenting author: José FERRADAS, UNIGE, contributed poster;
  • A Design of Experiment to tune BC2 up to record-high values in C-doped MgB2 by a rapid synthesis process, Presenting author: Davide MATERA, UNIGE, contributed oral;
  • Scaling behavior of the critical current under transverse stress in RRP and PIT Nb3Sn wires, Presenting author: Carmine SENATORE, UNIGE, contributed oral.
  • Large tuning of the depairing current density at YBa2Cu3O7-x low angle grain boundaries using ionic liquid gating, Presenting author: Carmine SENATORE, UNIGE, contributed oral.

The first day of the conference was devoted to short courses: Carmine SENATORE (UNIGE) and Matteo ALESSANDRINI (Bruker BioSpin) gave a full-day course entitled “High Temperature Superconducting Materials: Fabrication, Properties, and their Deployment in Large Scale Applications”.