(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.

(November 2020)

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

(October 2020)

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

(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

(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.

(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.