Editor’s Overview of Issue 3

Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage: Status and Perspective (January 18, 2008) Pascal Tixador

Activities of the FLUXONICS Society (January 17. 2008) F.H. Uhlmann and T. Ortlepp

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS:

Coil in Coil – Components for the High Voltage Superconducting Resistive Current Limiter CULT 110 (January 11, 2008) Steffen Elschner, Mark Stemmle, Frank Breuer, Heribert Walter, Christian Frohne, Mathias Noe and Joachim Bock

Analysis of Coupled Electromagnetic-Thermal Effects in Superconducting Accelerator Magnets (January 9, 2008) Egbert Fischer, Roman Kurnyshov and Petr Shcherbakov

Temperature rise in a model of resistive HTS element of a fault current limiter (January 08, 2008) Igor N Dul’kin, Leonid M Fisher, Valery P Ivanov, Alexey V Kalinov, Vladimir A Sidorov and Dmitrii V Yevsin

Narrow Strand YBCO Roebel Cable for Lowered AC Loss (January 11, 2008) N. J. Long, R. Badcock, P. Beck, M. Mulholland,
N. Ross, M. Staines, H. Sun, J. Hamilton, R. G. Buckley

Simple Calibration Free Method to Measure AC Magnetic Moment and Losses (January 5, 2008) Leonid M. Fisher, Alexey V. Kalinov and Igor F. Voloshin

Stable and Unstable Thermo – Current States of High Temperature
Superconductors During Current Charging (January 3, 2008) Vladimir R. Romanovskii, Nikolay A. Lavrov, Vera K. Ozhogina

Roebel Assembled Coated Conductor Cables (RACC): Ac-Losses and Current Carrying Potential (December 31, 2007) Antje Frank, Reinhard Heller, Wilfried Goldacker, Andrea Kling, Curt Schmidt

Status of the High Temperature Superconductor Current Lead Development at the Research Centre Karlsruhe (December 05, 2007) R. Heller, W.H. Fietz, R. Lietzow

Fabrication and Characterization of Short Josephson Junctions with Stepped Ferromagnetic Barrier (January 27, 2008) Uthayasankaran Peralagu and Martin Weides

A Parallel/Series Array of Cold-Electron Bolometers with
SIN Tunnel Junctions for Cosmology Instruments (January 11, 2008) Leonid Kuzmin

Time-Resolved Optical Characterization of Proximized Nano-Bilayers for Ultrafast Photodetector Applications (December 21, 2007) L. Parlato, G. P. Pepe,  D. Pan, C. De Lisio, V. Pagliarulo, A. Cosentino, N. Marrocco, D. Dalena, G. Peluso, A. Barone and R. Sobolewski

An SIS-based Sideband-Separating Heterodyne Mixer Optimized for the 600 to 720 GHz Band. (January 7, 2008) F. P. Mena, J. W. Kooi, A. M. Baryshev, C. F. J. Lodewijk, R. Hesper, W. Wild, and T. M. Klapwijk

Quantum Breathers in Coupled Josephson Junctions (November 27, 2007) Ricardo A. Pinto and Sergej Flach

Strong Reduction of the Field-Dependent Microwave Surface Resistance in YBCO with BaZrO₃ Inclusions (January 8, 2008) N. Pompeo, V. Galluzzi, A. Augieri, F. Fabbri, G. Celentano, T. Petrisor,
R. Rogai and E. Silva

Synthesis and Bulk Properties of Oxychloride Superconductor Ca_2-xNaxCuO₂Cl₂ (December 21, 2007) N. D. Zhigadlo, J. Karpinski, S. Weyeneth, R. Khasanov, S. Katrych,
P. Wägli and H. Keller

Pinning Performance of (Nd_0.33Eu_0.2Gd_0.47)Ba₂Cu₃O_y Single Crystal (December 19, 2007) M. Jirsa, M. Rames, P. Das, M. R. Koblischka, T. Wolf, U. Hartmann