(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.

(Sep 2020)

• Sahil Sharma, Ph.D. student, received the ABS scholarship from the Mechanical Engineering department.

(August 2020)

• Our group’s patent application “Multi-filament superconducting composites” was granted U.S. patent 10,734,138, by USPTO.

(June 2020)

• Our group received funding from Microsoft to develop Low Thermal Conductivity Superconducting Microwave Transmission Lines to Enable Quantum Computing.

(May 2020)

• Our group received funding from Mitsubishi Materials to develop Biaxially-textured Titanium Nitride Coatings for Cutting Tool.

(May 2020)

• AMPeers and our research group have been selected for funding for Phase I SBIR project on “Low-cost Manufacturing of Round REBCO Wires for Accelerator Magnets” from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of High Energy Physics