Manufacturing Industry

SUPERCONDUCTORS: SuperPower, ORNL Develop Wire Technology.

High Tech Ceramics News, November, 2002

SuperPower, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Intermagnetics General Corp. and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), executed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop second-generation high-temperature superconductor (HTS) technologies.

SuperPower is aggressively scaling up second-generation HTS technology under its current CRADA with Los Alamos and Argonne National Laboratories. Meter-long second-generation HTS tapes with good performance are being produced in the pilot manufacturing facilities in Schenectady. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy (DOE), is a pioneer in developing second-generation HTS technologies and has made substantial progress in this field recently.

"The CRADA...

Premium Content Partnership
 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement