Abstract: A system that stabilizes or supplements the variable power output from an external energy source by producing power from aluminum alloys. The aluminum alloy produces hydrogen from water, and also releases heat. During this process, the aluminum alloy is oxidized to alumina mixture, which can be recycled in a smelting unit to regenerate the aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy can be easily transported in existing transportation system to different locations. The system produces electricity on-demand using portions of the existing power generation and transportation systems with minimal carbon footprint/emission.

Abstract: A system that stabilizes or supplements the variable power output from an external energy source by producing power from aluminum alloys. The aluminum alloy produces hydrogen from water, and also releases heat. During this process, the aluminum alloy is oxidized to alumina mixture, which can be recycled in a smelting unit to regenerate the aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy can be easily transported in existing transportation system to different locations. The system produces electricity on-demand using portions of the existing power generation and transportation systems with minimal carbon footprint/emission.

Abstract: Improved conductors and superconducting magnets are described utilizing superconducting materials exhibiting critical field anisotropy. This anisotropy is one in which the ability of the superconductor to stay in a superconducting state depends on the orientation of a magnetic field applied to the superconductor with respect to the direction of current flow in the superconductor. This anisotropy is utilized in the design of conductors and magnet windings comprising the superconductive material and specifically is directed to magnet windings in which the direction of high critical current through the superconductor is parallel to the magnetic field produced by current in these windings in order to obtain high critical fields. Particularly favorable examples of a superconducting material are the so-called high Tc superconductors in which the primary supercurrent flow is confined to 2 dimensional Cu—O planes.

Abstract: A firearm support which can be quickly and easily set up securely supports a firearm, such as a rifle, while permitting that firearm to have freedom of movement in several planes. The support also can be stored adjacent to the firearm without tangling the shoulder strap associated with the firearm.

Abstract: This interface permits the testing of high speed semiconductor devices (room-temperature chips) by a Josephson junction sampling device (cryogenic chip) without intolerable loss of resolution. The interface comprises a quartz pass-through plug which includes a planar transmission line interconnecting a first chip station, where the cryogenic chip is mounted, and a second chip station, where the semiconductor chip to be tested is temporarily mounted. The pass-through plug has a cemented long half-cylindrical portion and short half-cylindrical portion. The long portion carries the planar transmission line, the ends of which form the first and second chip mounting stations. The short portion completes the cylinder with the long portion for part of its length, where a seal can be achieved, but does not extend over the chip mounting stations. Sealing is by epoxy cement. The pass-through plug is sealed in place in a flange mounted to the chamber wall.

Abstract: A superconducting circuit including at least two DC SQUID stages integrated on the same superconducting chip and coupled by a circuit providing efficient transfer of current from the first SQUID stage to the second SQUID stage with large bandwidth. Each SQUID stage is comprised of a superconducting loop having at least two Josephson devices therein, there being shunt resistors across the Josephson devices to render them nonhysteretic. The coupling means between stages is directly connected to the shunt resistors of the first stage and includes a transmission line and an impedance circuit for matching the impedance of the transmission line, where the impedance circuit provides a real impedance over a large frequency range up to approximately the frequency of Josephson oscillation of the Josephson devices in DC SQUID. Feedback from the second SQUID stage to the first SQUID stage improves the input dynamic range and linearity of the circuit.

Abstract: Josephson devices are distributed in series in a transmission line structure in which electromagnetic waves are used to synchronize the dynamics of the Josephson devices in order to achieve coherence between the devices. Electromagnetic waves, such as oscillatory traveling waves, standing waves, and solitary waves along the transmission line couple the Josephson devices in a manner such that coherence is achieved for the entire array. The Josephson devices can be tunnel junctions, point contacts, micro bridges, and weak links, and more generally include any such superconductive device which obeys the Josephson equations of voltage and current. The transmission line is any line which controllably supports electromagnetic waves, and can include strip lines located over a ground plane, coaxial lines, etc. A DC bias is supplied to the transmission line, and the ends are terminated in accordance with the type of wave to be propagated along the line.

Abstract: A Josephson Self Gating And circuit which is powered by pulsed or clipped alternating current and provides true and complement outputs in response to true and complement inputs is disclosed. Inputs applied during the duration of the applied pulsed power or clipped alternating current are delivered to outputs which are maintained in that state in spite of a change of input within the given pulse duration. In one embodiment, the presence of an output signal interrupts a current path which, in turn, disables a pair of AND gates. These gates, even though the input to them changes, can provide no other output until the applied power falls to zero resetting the pair of AND gates which are latching in character. In another embodiment, current paths of one AND gate are cross-coupled with a current path of another AND gate.