(June 2021)

• Dr. Mehdi Kochat, former Ph.D. student from our group joined Renaissance Fusion, Grenoble, France

(May 2021)

• Our research group was awarded a $450k project on “New Superconductor Architecture for Fast Quench Detection in Superconducting Devices for Advanced Naval Power Systems” by the Office of Naval Research.

(May 2021)

• AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a Phase I SBIR project on “Multi-Strand Transposed Cables of Round REBCO Wires for Accelerator Magnets” from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics.

(May 2021)

• AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a Phase I STTR project on “REBCO Tapes with Enhanced Current Sharing Characteristics for Quench Mitigation” from the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).

(May 2021)

• Sahil Sharma, Ph.D. student, presented his research on “Flexible, Inexpensive GaAs Concentrated Photovoltaics for Solar Powered Vehicle” at the TCSUH Scholarship Symposium.

(April 2021)

• Two Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Capstone project teams that worked with our researchers to design, build and test a Superconductor Tape Exfoliation System presented their successful final projects. Congratulations Steffano Sanchez, Christopher Torres, Demetrious  Perez, Mario Costa, Huy Truong, Alyssa Contreras, Casey Drew Shaw and Ahmad Zeidat.

(April 2021)

• Sahil Sharma, Ph.D. student, has been awarded the 2021 Cora Hawley scholarship by the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TCSUH).

(April 2021)

• Dr. Yuan Zhang, former Ph.D. student joined Intel, Albuquerque.

(April 2021)

• Our group’s patent application “Architectures enabling back contact bottom electrodes for semiconductor devices” was granted U.S. patent 10,991,836 by USPTO.

(November 2020)

• Siwei Chen, Ph.D. student, co-chaired a session at the 2020 Applied Superconductivity Conference.