Abstract: A superconducting magnet which provides a barrier to current flow transverse to the length of the superconductor at operational temperature and voltages, while also providing a magnetic quench protection mechanism for the superconducting magnet. The superconducting magnet comprising a plurality of winding turns of superconductive material wound into a coil and a variable electrically resistive layer varying with either temperature or voltage positioned between at least of portion of the plurality of winding turns of the superconductive material, wherein the variable electrically resistive layer has a negative temperature coefficient of resistance or is a semiconductor with a threshold voltage greater than operational voltages.

Abstract: Methods of forming a high-strength metal alloy precursor by tailor-casting strips having a tailored thickness across a width of a strip material are provided. The tailor-cast strips have varying thickness throughout the width, which can then be further tailor rolled to a final required thickness profile/tailored thickness. Such tailor-casting method can be conducted by contacting a patterned surface of a casting roller or a casting block with a liquid high-strength metal alloy in a continuous casting process. The present disclosure provides methods of continuously casting a strip having varying thickness across the width allows for improved product in subsequent processing, like tailor rolling. Methods of making a high-strength metal alloy structural automotive component from a tailor-cast blank having a tailored thickness are also provided.

Abstract: The method is for manufacturing a high temperature multi-filamentary superconducting tape wire having an oxide superconducting layer formed on a tape-shaped metal substrate with an intermediate layer therebetween and a metal stabilizing layer formed on the oxide superconducting layer, wherein one or more lengthwise slits are formed in the oxide superconducting layer and the intermediate layer and no slits are formed in the metal substrate and the stabilizing layer. The method includes: a step for preparing a high temperature superconducting wire material having an oxide superconducting layer formed on a tape-shape metal substrate with an intermediate layer therebetween and a stabilizing layer formed on the oxide superconducting layer; and a step for applying a load to the high temperature superconducting wire material to form slits.

Abstract: A method and composition for doped HTS tapes having directional flux pinning and critical current.

Abstract: A method of forming a superconductor device structure is disclosed. The method comprises forming a base electrode in a first dielectric layer, forming a junction material stack over the base electrode, forming a hardmask over the junction material stack, etching away a portion of the junction material stack to form a Josephson junction (JJ) over the base electrode, and depositing a second dielectric layer over the hardmask, the JJ, the base electrode and the first dielectric layer. The method additionally comprises forming a first contact through the second dielectric layer to the base electrode to electrically couple the first contact to a first end of the JJ, and forming a second contact through the second dielectric layer and the hardmask to electrically coupled the second contact to a second end of the JJ.

Abstract: A burner for producing synthesis gas by partial oxidation of liquid or gaseous, carbon-containing fuels in the presence of an oxygen-containing oxidant and a moderator, which burner can be operated uncooled, i.e. without a fluid coolant being passed through the burner, is proposed. Steam or carbon dioxide or else mixtures of these materials are used as moderator. This is achieved by the feed channels being configured so that mixing of the fuel, the moderator and the oxidant occurs only outside the burner.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a permanent magnet includes a sintered compact having a composition expressed by a composition formula: Rp1Feq1Mr1Cus1Co100-p1-q1-r1-s1 (R is a rare-earth element, M is at least one element selected from Zr, Ti, and Hf, 10?p1?13.3 at %, 25?q1?40.0 at %, 0.88?r1?5.4 at %, and 3.5?s1?13.5 at %). The sintered compact includes crystal grains and a Cu-rich phase. The crystal grains are composed of a main phase including a Th2Zn17 crystal phase. The Cu-rich phase has a composition with a high Cu concentration and an average thickness of 0.05 ?m or more and 2 ?m or less.

Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a self-monitoring conducting device that responds to strain and temperature changes. In one example, a self-monitoring conducting device comprises a superconducting cable having a core and one or more layers of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) tape architecture surrounding the core. The self-monitoring conducting device further includes optical fibers integrated within the superconducting cable. The optical fibers can monitor a state of the superconducting cable along a length of the superconducting cable.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a permanent magnet includes a sintered compact including: a composition expressed by a composition formula: RpFeqMrCusCo100-p-q-r-s (R is at least one element selected from rare-earth elements, M is at least one element selected from Zr, Ti, and Hf, 10?p?13.3 at %, 25?q?40 at %, 0.87?r?5.4 at %, and 3.5?s?13.5 at %); and a metallic structure having a main phase including a Th2Zn17 crystal phase, and an R-M-rich phase containing the element R whose concentration is 1.2 times or more an R concentration in the main phase and the element M whose concentration is 1.2 times or more an M concentration in the main phase. A volume fraction of the R-M-rich phase in the metallic structure is from 0.2% to 15%.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet and method for making a superconducting magnet are presented. The superconducting magnet is made by forming a coil from windings of a first wire comprising a reacted MgB2 monofilament, filling a cavity of a stainless steel billet with a Mg+B powder. Monofilament ends of the first wire and a similar second wire are sheared at an acute angle and inserted into the billet. A copper plug configured to partially fill the billet cavity is inserted into the billet cavity. A portion of the billet adjacent to the plug and the wires is sealed with a ceramic paste.

Abstract: A superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) device having a plurality of interwoven windings provides for alternative discharge paths for energy stored as magnetic fields in the windings in response to an open-circuit winding fault in one of the windings.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor for superconducting quantum interference device using single operational amplifier comprising SQUID, a feedback coil, feedback resistor and an operational amplifier. The voltage signal of SQUID is delivered to one input of the operational amplifier, a bias voltage is delivered to other input of the operational amplifier, and the output of the operational amplifier connects to one end of a feedback resistor, the other end of the feedback resistor connects to a feedback coil that is coupled through mutual inductance with the SQUID so as to generate feedback magnetic flux, the output voltage of the operational amplifier drives the feedback resistance to generate current, thereby forming a flux locking loop. The present invention uses an open loop operational amplifier to implement SQUID magnetic flux locking feedback circuit which simplifies the circuit configuration, decrease the loop delay and thereby achieving higher bandwidth of the flux locking loop.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rare earth based magnet that inhibits the high temperature demagnetization rate even when less or no heavy rare earth elements such as Dy, Tb and the like are used. The rare earth based magnet according to the present invention includes R2T14B main phase crystal grains and grain boundary phases between adjacent main phase crystal grains. In any cross-section of the rare earth based magnet, when evaluating the circular degree of the main phase crystal grains with Wadell's Roundness A, the shape of the main phase crystal grains is controlled such that the Roundness A becomes 0.24 or more.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for supported Ni/Pt bimetallic nanoparticles having a Ni core and a Pt layer disposed on the surface of the Ni core, compositions including supported NiPt nanoparticles, methods of making supported NiPt nanoparticles, methods of using supported NiPt nanoparticles, and the like.

Abstract: A high-strength steel sheet has a chemical composition comprising C: 0.05-0.20%, Si: 0.02-3.0%, Mn: 0.5-3.0%, P: at most 0.5%, S: at most 0.05%, Cr: 0.05-1.0%, sol. Al: 0.01-1.0%, one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ti, Nb, Mo, V, and W: a total of 0.002-0.03%, and a remainder of Fe and impurities. The sheet has an average grain diameter of ferrite of at most 3.0 ?m at least in a region of 100-200 ?m in the sheet thickness direction from the surface of the steel sheet. The average spacing in the sheet thickness direction of the remaining structure in this region is at most 3.0 ?m. Mechanical properties include at least 750 MPa tensile strength and at least 13,000 MPa·% (tensile strength×elongation).

Abstract: A superconducting coil of an embodiment includes a superconducting wire including an oxide superconductor layer. The oxide superconductor layer has a continuous Perovskite structure including rare earth elements, barium (Ba), and copper (Cu). The rare earth elements include a first element which is praseodymium (Pr), at least one second element selected from the group consisting of neodymium (Nd), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), and gadolinium (Gd), at least one third element selected from the group consisting of yttrium (Y), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), and holmium (Ho), and at least one fourth element selected from the group consisting of erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu).

Abstract: A connecting structure of an oxide superconducting wire includes a pair of oxide superconducting wires, tip surfaces of the pair of oxide superconducting wire being disposed to face to each other; a first surface-connecting superconducting wire configured to transit and connect the pair of oxide superconducting wires; and a second surface transit connector configured to transit and connect the pair of oxide superconducting wires, wherein tensile strength of joining sections between the second surface transit connector and the pair of oxide superconducting wires is higher than tensile strength of joining sections between the first surface-connecting superconducting wire and the pair of oxide superconducting wires.

Abstract: A method of preparing a casting article for use in manufacturing a gas turbine engine part according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, communicating a powdered material to an additive manufacturing system and preparing a casting article that includes at least one trunk and a skin core that extends from the at least one trunk out of the powdered material.

Abstract: A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet that is a steel sheet that includes major components and that contains at least 40 vol. % the sum of bainite and martensite, 8-60 vol. % retained austenite, and less than 40 vol. % ferrite, with the remainder comprising an incidental structure. The hot-dip galvanized steel sheet has, at the interface between the deposit layer formed by hot-dip galvanization and the base steel sheet, an intermetallic compound constituted of Fe, Al, Zn, and incidental impurities and having an average thickness of 0.1-2 ?m, the intermetallic compound having a crystal grain diameter of 0.01-1 ?m. After the deposit layer formed by hot-dip galvanization was removed, the surface of the base steel sheet has an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 0.1-2.0 ?m and gives a roughness curve in which the contour elements have an average length RSm of 5-300 ?m.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing of a component having the steps of manufacturing of a first segment for the component by a powder-bed manufacturing process, and the manufacturing of a second segment for the component originating from the first segment by an additive manufacturing process, such that the second segment projects by a projecting distance over at least one side face of the first segment. Furthermore, a component has the first segment being manufactured by the powder-bed manufacturing process and the second segment being manufactured by the additive manufacturing process, wherein the second segment projects by a projecting distance over at least one side face of the first segment.