- 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)
- Group receives funding from Mitsubishi - (May 2020) Our group received funding from Mitsubishi Materials to develop Biaxially-textured Titanium Nitride Coatings for Cutting Tool. (more)
- AMPeers and our UH group selected for DOE Phase I SBIR - (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 (more)
- Siwei Chen awarded 2021 Cora Hawley scholarship - (April 2020) Siwei Chen, Ph.D. student, has been awarded the 2021 Cora Hawley scholarship by the Texas Center for Superconductivity (TCSUH) (more)
- Patent application “Superconductor article with directional flux pinning” was granted - (March 2020) Our group’s patent application “Superconductor article with directional flux pinning” was granted U.S. patent 10,607,753. (more)
- High Performance Flexible Electronics developed in Prof. Selva’s group - Tired of lugging that heavy laptop in your padded backpack? Here’s an idea: When you’re finished using your laptop, just roll it up, fold it, stick it in your back pocket and bolt. That’s the incredible future being created in a UH Cullen College of Engineering laboratory – a flexible, thin-film transistor (TFT) that may… (more)
- Prof. Selva’s team awarded $4.5 M by the U.S. Department of Energy for Advanced Manufacturing of Superconductor Wire for Next Generation Machines - With their potential for big savings through increased energy efficiency and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, interest in improving the manufacturing of superconductor wire is at an all-time high. The U.S. Department of Energy Monday announced a $4.5 million grant to Venkat Selvamanickam, MD Anderson Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, to… (more)
- University of Houston Materials Research Society (UH-MRS) Student Chapter hosts symposium on campus led by Prof. Selva’s group members - Meysam Heydari Gharacheshmeh, president of the UH-MRS Student Chapter and Dr. Pavel Dutta, Faculty Advisor to UH-MRS Chapter, led the efforts in organizing the event. Other core officers and event organizers were Dr. Ying Gao, Devendra Khatiwada, Sicong Sun and Soumen Kar, all of Prof. Selva’s group. Forty poster presenters affiliated with different departments such… (more)
