Objectives

The prime objectives of the group are the development of:

• High T_c, Medium T_c, and Low T_c superconducting conductors with a full engineering specification appropriate for technical application
• Novel processing routes for low cost, high current HTS, MTS and LTS conductors
• High-throughput methods in fabrication and characterisation of highly textured electroceramic and insulating coatings using extrusion, ink-jet printing and coating
• Rapid 3-D prototyping techniques for electroceramic arrays and sensors
• Highly textured metallic substrates
• Improved versions of existing technological superconducting conductors through collaborative research with industry
• Improved understanding of high critical currents, high irreversibility field, controlled critical current anisotropy, A.C. losses and current transfer and percolation phenomena in practical conductors
• Advanced cryocoolers
• Advanced hydrogen-oxygen production technologies of photocatalytic electrolysers for fuel and cryogenic purposes
• Ultra-high magnetic field processing and testing of electroceramic and medical materials
• Superconducting material applications in medicine and electrotechnology such as e.g. MRI, NMR, SMES, Fault Current Limiters, D.C. & A.C. Electrical Transmission, Power Transformers, Flux Transformers, Sensors and Fusion