Category Archives: News

Undergraduate Capstone teams present final projects

(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.

Sahil Sharma awarded 2021 Cora Hawley scholarship

(April 2021)

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

Patent “Architectures enabling back contact bottom electrodes for semiconductor devices” granted

(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.

Patent application “Superconductor Compositions” was granted

(November 2020)

  • Our group’s patent application “Superconductor Compositions” was granted U.S. patent 10,832,843 by USPTO.

Patent application “Superconductor with Improved Pinning at Low Temperatures” was granted

(October 2020)

  • Our group’s patent application “Superconductor with Improved Pinning at Low Temperatures” was granted U.S. patent 10,818,416 by USPTO.

Prof Selva’s team awarded $1.5M by ARPA-E

(September 2020)

  • Our team was awarded $1.5M by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-e) for Advanced HTS Conductors Customized for Fusion to develop high-performance, low-cost, high-strength superconductor tapes for compact fusion energy systems.

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/department-energy-announces-29-million-fusion-energy-technology-development

$900,000 DURIP award

(September 2020)

  • Our group received a $904,000 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award for purchase of micro-computed tomography (Micro-CT) for non-destructive evaluation of advanced materials and devices for defense applications.

Patent application “High mobility silicon on flexible substrates” was granted

(September 2020)

  • Our group’s patent application “High mobility silicon on flexible substrates” was granted U.S. 10,777,408 by USPTO. Co-inventors are former research faculty Dr. Pavel Dutta and former Ph.D. student and post-doc, Dr. Ying Gao.