- Ph.D. graduate Jithin Sai Sandra - joined AMPeers LLC (June 2024). (more)
- Manoj Paulose (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship (May 2024). (more)
- Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship (May 2024). (more)
- Bhabesh Sarangi (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Cora Hawley award from Texas Center for Superconductivity (April 2024). (more)
- Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - received 2024 Cora Hawley award from Texas Center for Superconductivity (April 2024). (more)
- Received $957k award from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - to develop novel in-situ quality control techniques for metal additive manufacturing. (February 2024). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2024/february/02122024-3d-printing-metal-collab-selvamanickam.php (more)
- Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - selected to serve on the student board of 2024 Applied Superconductivity Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah. (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Vamsi Yerraguravagari - joined MetOx (December 2023 (more)
- Received $2M award from Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-e) - to develop low-cost, high-throughput techniques to manufacture superconductor tapes. (October 2023) https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/exploratory-topics/superconducting-tape (more)
- Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student) - selected as one of eight Chevron Energy Fellows among 60+ applicants (August 2023). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2023/august-2023/08252023-uh-chevron-energy-fellow.php (more)
- One of six awardees of CABLE Manufacturing Prize ($200,000 cash) - from the U.S. Department of Energy in Stage 2 competition for work on advanced manufacturing of superconductors. (May 2023) https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2023/stage-2-winners-of-a-manufacturing-prize-are-supercharging-u-s-industries.html (more)
- Received $800k DURIP award from Office of Naval Research - for a Pulsed Laser Deposition tool for development of advanced superconductor tapes. (June 2023). https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2023/june-2023/06282023-selva-pulsed-laser-navy-grant.php (more)
- Puskar Pathak (Ph.D. student) - received 2023 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship (May 2023) (more)
- Bhabesh Sarangi (Ph.D. student) - received the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Department Scholarship. (May 2023) (more)
- Siwei Chen (Ph.D. student), 2nd Place Student Poster Award - in 2023 International Workshop on Coated Conductor for Applications. (April 2023) (more)
- Chirag Goel (Ph.D. student), 2nd Place Student Poster Award - in 2023 International Workshop on Coated Conductor for Applications. (April 2023) (more)
- AMPeers and UH Group receive $1.7M Navy Phase II STTR award - - (March 2023) AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a $1.7M funding for Phase II STTR project on “Defect-tolerant REBCO Tapes” from the U.S. Navy. (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Siwei Chen - joined Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (February 2023) (more)
- Siwei Chen (Ph.D. student) ranked in second place - for Best Ph.D. Dissertation, Mechanical Engineering (December 2022) (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Sahil Sharma - joined Intel (December 2022) (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Bo Zhang - joined Intel (December 2022) (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Rohit Jain - joined HTS Inc. (December 2022) (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Chuanze Zhang - joined PXW Integrated Circuit Manufacturing (December 2022) (more)
- Siwei Chen (Ph.D. student) selected to serve on the student board of ASC ’22 - Applied Superconductivity Conference, Honolulu, HI, October 2022. (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Mahesh Paidpilli joined Intel (August 2022) - (more)
- Ph.D. graduate Carlos joined ThorLabs Quantum Electronics (May 2022) - (more)
- Jithin Sai Sandra (Ph.D. student) received 2023 Cora Hawley award - from Texas Center for Superconductivity from the Texas Center for Superconductivity (April 2022). (more)
- University of Houston hosts successful superconductor workshop – CCA 2023 - 2023 CCA (more)
- Sahil Sharma, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) 2022 - Travel Support Award to attend and present paper at the 2022 SVC Telecon, Long Beach, CA. V. Selvamanickam (more)
- Siwei Chen awarded ISS Encouragement Award 2021 - (December 2021) Siwei Chen, Ph.D. student, has been awarded the ISS Encouragement Award 2021 (Best Oral Presentation) in the 34th International Symposium on Superconductivity(ISS2021). https://iss2021wlg.jp/iss-encouragement-award.html (more)
- AMPeers and UH Group receive $1.15M DOE Phase II SBIR - (July 2021) AMPeers and our research group have been selected for a $1.15M funding for Phase II 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. (more)
- Dr. Sicong Sun joined View Inc. - (June 2021) Dr. Sicong Sun, post-doc and former Ph.D. student from our group joined View Inc., Memphis, TN. (more)
- Dr. Mehdi Kochat joined Renaissance Fusion - (June 2021) Dr. Mehdi Kochat, former Ph.D. student from our group joined Renaissance Fusion, Grenoble, France (more)
- UH Group receives Navy award - (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. (more)
- AMPeers and UH Group receives DOE award - (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. (more)
- AMPeers and UH Group receives NAVSEA award - (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). (more)
- Sahil Sharma presents at TCSUH Symposium - (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. (more)
- 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. (more)
- 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). (more)
- Dr. Yuan Zhang joins Intel - (April 2021) Dr. Yuan Zhang, former Ph.D. student joined Intel, Albuquerque. (more)
- 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. (more)
- Siwei Chen co-chaired session at ASC 2021 - (November 2020) Siwei Chen, Ph.D. student, co-chaired a session at the 2020 Applied Superconductivity Conference. (more)
- 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. (more)
- 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. (more)
- 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 (more)
- $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. (more)
- 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. (more)
- Sahil Sharma received the ABS Scholarship - (Sep 2020) Sahil Sharma, Ph.D. student, received the ABS scholarship from the Mechanical Engineering department. (more)
- Patent application “Multi-filament superconducting composites” was granted - (August 2020) Our group’s patent application “Multi-filament superconducting composites” was granted U.S. patent 10,734,138, by USPTO. (more)
- Group receives funding from Microsoft - (June 2020) Our group received funding from Microsoft to develop Low Thermal Conductivity Superconducting Microwave Transmission Lines to Enable Quantum Computing. (more)
