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Editor’s Overview of Issue 11

Editor’s Comment to CR16

Superconductivity: Its Role, Its Success and Its Setback
in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN
Lucio Rossi

New Fe-based Superconductors: Properties Relevant for Applications
M. Putti, I. Pallecchi, E. Bellingeri, M. Tropeano, C. Ferdeghini, A.. Palenzona, C. Tarantini, A. Yamamoto, J. Jiang, J. Jaroszynski, F. Kametani, D. Abraimov, A. Polyanskii, J. D. Weiss, E. E. Hellstrom, A. Gurevich, D. C. Larbalestier, R. Jin, B. C. Sales, S. A. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, D. Mandrus, P. Cheng, Y. Jia, H. H. Wen, S. Lee, C. B. Eom

CR14
(034002)

Grain Boundaries in the Cuprate Superconductors: Tapes and Tunneling Spectroscopy
P. Chaudhari and Heejae Shim

ELECTRONICS (E)

DETECTOR-RELATED

Superconducting Nanowire Single-photon Detectors: Quantum Efficiency vs. Thickness of NbN Films
M. Hofherr, D. Rall, K. S. Ilin, A. Semenov,
N. Gippius and H.-W. Hübersand M. Siegel

Energy Relaxation Time in NbN and YBCO Thin Films under Optical Irradiation
D. Rall, P. Probst, M. Hofherr, S. Wünsch, K. Ilin, U. Lemmerand M. Siegel

LARGE INSTRUMENT MAGNETS

Progress on the Superconducting Magnets
for the MICE Cooling Channel
M. A. Green, S. P. Virostek, D. Li, M. S. Zisman, L. Wang, H. Pan,
H. Wu, X. L. Guo, F. Y. Xu, X. K. Liu, S. X. Zheng, T. Bradshaw,
D. E. Baynham, J. Cobb, W. Lau, P. Lau, and S. Q. Yang

Test Results of TQS03: a LARP Shell-based Nb₃Sn
Quadrupole Using 108/127 Conductor
H. Felice, G. Ambrosio, M. Bajko, E. Barzi,  B. Bordini, R. Bossert,  S. Caspi, D. Dietderich, P. Ferracin, J. Feuvrier, A. Ghosh, A. Godeke,  J. Lizarazo, L. Rossi, G. Sabbi, P. Wanderer, X. Wang, A. V. Zlobin

MOTORS

HTS High-dynamic Electrical Motors
K. L. Kovalev, D. S. Dezhin, L. K. Kovalev, V. N. Poltavets, R. I. Ilyasov, D. S. Golovanov, B. Oswald, K.-J. Best, W. Gawalek

Development and Construction of an HTS Rotor for Ship Propulsion Application
W. Nick, M. Frank, P. Kummeth, J. J. Rabbers, M. Wilke and K. Schleicher

POWER CABLES and RELATED

Grid Impact Analysis of a HTSC Cable by Using an Enhanced Conventional Simulator
Gerard Del-Rosario-Calaf, Andreas Sumper,
Xavier Granados and Antoni Sudria-Andreu

HTS Cable Design and Evaluation in YOKOHAMA Project
H. Yumura, M. Ohya, Y. Ashibe, M. Watanabe, T. Minamino,
T. Masuda, S. Honjo, T. Mimura, Y. Kitohand Y. Noguchi

POWER TRANSFORMERS AND FAULT CURRENT LIMITERS

ST153
(032030)

Application Possibilities with Continuous YBCO Loops Made of HTS Wire
J. Kosa, I. Vajda, A. Gyore

Study of Superconducting Fault Current Limiter Model with AC Circuit-breaker
D. Alferov, A. Budovsky, I. Dul’kin, L. Fisher, V. Ivanov,
V. Sidorov, R. Shul’ga, E. Tshay and D. Yevsin

First Commercial Medium Voltage Superconducting
Fault-Current Limiters – Production, Test and Installation
R. Dommerque, S. Krämer, A. Hobl, R. Böhm, M. Bludau, J. Bock, D. Klaus, H. Piereder, A. Wilson, T. Krüger, G. Pfeiffer, K. Pfeiffer, S. Elschner

Development of 2 MVA Class Superconducting Fault Current Limiting Transformer (SFCLT) with YBCO Coated Conductors
M. Kotari, H. Kojima, N. Hayakawa, F. Endo, H. Okubo

MAINLY LOW-T_c CONDUCTORS AND MgB₂: MATERIALS, THIN FILMS, CONDUCTORS

RF Critical Magnetic Field Measurement of MgB₂ and NbN Thin Films Coated on Nb
T. Tajima, A. Burrell, G. Eremeev, V. Dolgashev, D. Martin, C. Nantista, S. Tantawi, C. Yoneda, B.H. Moeckly, I. Campisi

Influence of Nanoparticle Doping on Electronic Properties of MgB₂ Bulk Samples
L. Gozzelino, R. Gerbaldo, G. Ghigo, F. Laviano, G. Lopardo, E. Mezzetti, G. A. Ummarino, G. Giunchi, E. Perini, L. Saglietti, E. Bassaniand B. Minetti

Determination of the Critical Temperature and Oxygen Content Variations
Along the c-axis of YBCO Epitaxial Films
Yohann Thimont, Jean-François Hamet, Séverine Mouchel and Pierre Bernstein

BULK HTS

PNICTIDES

Upper Critical Fields up to 60 T and the Vortex Matter Phase Diagram of
Arsenic-deficient LaO_0.9F_0.1FeAs_1-δ
G. Fuchs, S.-L. Drechsler, N. Kozlova, V. Grinenko, J. Freudenberger,
M. Bartkowiak, G. Behr, C. Hess, R. Klingeler, A. Köhler,
K. Nenkov, H.-H. Klauss, B. Büchner and L. Schultz

Effect of Nanosize BaZrO₃ Inclusions on Vortex Parameters in YBa₂Cu₃O_7−x
E. Silva, N. Pompeo, R. Rogai, A. Augieri, V. Galluzzi, G. Celentano

Thin Film Nanocomposites Based on YBCO with Defects Comprised of Self-assembled Inclusions
O. V. Boytsova, A. R. Kaul, S. V. Samoilenkov, I. E. Voloshin

Critical Current Density in Ag/YBa₂Cu₃O_x and
PrBa₂Cu₃O_y/YBa₂Cu₃O_x Multilayers
V. S. Dang*, P. Mikheenko, A. Sarkar, J. S. Abell and A. Crisan

Evaluation of Current Transport Properties of Gd₁Ba₂Cu₃O_7-δ Coated Conductors over a Wide Range of Temperature and External Magnetic Fields
R. Fuger, M. Inoue, K. Higashikawa, T. Kiss, M. Namba, S. Awaji, K. Watanabe, A. Ibi, H. Fukushima, Y. Yamadaand T. Izumi

Characterization of Electrical Resistance of HTS Coated Conductors at High Currents Using Ultra-Fast Regulated Current Pulses
Frédéric Sirois, Jonathan Coulombe, François Roy, Bertrand Dutoit

AC LOSSES IN HTS CONDUCTORS

Theory of AC Loss in Cables with 2G HTS Wire
J. R. Clem and A. P. Malozemoff

AC Loss of a Model 5m 2G HTS Power Cable Using Wires with NiW Substrates
V. S. Vysotsky, K. A. Shutov, A.A. Nosov, N.V. Polyakova, S.S. Fetisov,
V.V. Zubko and V.E. Sytnikov, W. L. Carter, S. Fleshler, A. P. Malozemoff and G. Snitchler

A New Numerical Approach to Find Current Distribution and AC Losses
in Coaxial Assembly of Twisted HTS Tapes in Single Layer Arrangement
Majid Siahrang, Frédéric Sirois, Francesco Grilli,
Slobodan Babicand Simon Brault

Partial Discharge Activities under AC/Impulse Superimposed Voltage in LN₂/Polypropylene Laminated Paper Insulation System for HTS Cables
N. Hayakawa, R. Yamaguchi, Y. Ukai, H. Kojima, F. Endo, H. Okubo

Development of YBCO Roebel Cables for
High Current Transport and Low AC Loss Applications
N. J. Long, R. A. Badcock, K. Hamilton, A. Wright, Z. Jiang, L. S. Lakshmi

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Regular ESNF Papers

Editor’s Comment to Paper ST184

Voltage Biased Superconducting Quantum Interference Device Bootstrap Circuit
Xiaoming Xie, Yi Zhang, Huiwu Wang, Yongliang Wang, Michael Mück, Hui Dong, Hans-Joachim Krause, Alex I. Braginski, Andreas Offenhäusser and Mianheng Jiang

Editor’s Comment on Paper ST177

Conceptual Study of Superconducting Urban Area Power Systems
Mathias Noe, Robert Bach, Werner Prusseit, Dag Willén, Wilfried Goldacker, Juri Poelchau, Christian Linke

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