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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 DWeiss, E EHellstrom, 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

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

ELECTRONICS (E)

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

MATERIALS AND CONDUCTORS (M)

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS (L)

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

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

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

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

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