SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 19, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Superconductor Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:SCON) ("STI"), a world leader in the development and production of high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials and associated technologies, announced Dr. Brian Moeckly, Director of Materials Research and Development for STI, will present at the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting on April 26th at 4:00 p.m. PDT in San Francisco.
Dr. Moeckly will present in Symposium VV: "Future Directions in High-Temperature Superconductivity---New Materials and Applications." His presentation, which is titled: Fabrication and In-field Measurement of HTS Films on Simplified Templates for Low-cost Coated Conductors, will report on critical current measurements of second generation (2G) HTS coated conductors as a function of magnetic field magnitude and direction. Dr. Moeckly will discuss the high-magnetic-field test results that were completed in January, 2011 for a 2G HTS wire sample that was produced by STI and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The outstanding critical current results were achieved on samples that were produced without requiring the addition of artificial pinning centers within the HTS layer. The samples were fabricated using STI's proprietary reactive coevaporation with cyclic deposition and reaction (RCE-CDR) technology to deposit the HTS material onto simplified templates. The templates themselves consist of a reduced number of layers and process steps compared to competing technologies.
Dr. Moeckly will also report on the fabrication and properties of coated conductor wire samples up to a meter in length. These results demonstrate the benefits of STI's deposition technologies for manufacture of 2G HTS wire for demanding wind turbine, fault current limiter, and transmission cable applications.
About Materials Research Society (MRS)
MRS is an organization of materials researchers from academia, industry and government that promotes communication for the advancement of interdisciplinary materials research to improve the quality of life. More information about the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting program can be found at:
About Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI)
Superconductor Technologies Inc., headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, has been a world leader in HTS materials since 1987, developing more than 100 patents as well as proprietary trade secrets and manufacturing expertise. For more than a decade, STI has been providing innovative interference elimination and network enhancement solutions to the commercial wireless industry. The company is currently leveraging its key enabling technologies, including RF filtering, HTS materials and cryogenics to develop energy efficient, cost-effective and high performance second generation (2G) HTS wire for existing and emerging power applications, to develop applications for advanced RF wireless solutions and innovative adaptive filtering, and for government R&D. Superconductor Technologies Inc.'s common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the ticker symbol "SCON." For more information about STI, please visit http://www.suptech.com.
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