Short Courses
1. Design of Superconducting Magnets for Particle Accelerators and Detectors
| Date: | Sunday, October 23, 2022 |
| Time: | 8:30 am – 4:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Hawaii Convention Center, Room 325B |
| Fee: | Full conference participant early: $300; regular: $375; onsite: $450 Student participant early: $225; regular: $275; onsite: $325 Fee includes a continental breakfast and coffee breaks. |
| Instructors: | Susana Izquierdo Bermudez and Herman ten Kate |
Course Description: This course covers the design of superconducting magnets for particle accelerators and detectors. The lectures are intended for physicists and engineers working in the areas of magnet technology and applied superconductivity, and interested in basic principles, physical parameters, analytical and numerical tools used for superconducting magnet design. For each of the applications considered, the courses will start by presenting the properties and characteristics of superconducting strands and cables. The main concepts related to magnetic design and coil lay-outs will be then outlined. In addition, the lectures will deal with the mechanics and fabrication techniques of a superconducting magnet, focusing in particular on coils and the structural components aimed at containing the electro-magnetic forces and managing the stresses. Finally, a description of the different systems devoted to cool and protect a magnet after a quench will be provided.
2. High Temperature Superconductors: From the Materials to Magnet Technology
| Date: | Sunday, October 23, 2022 |
| Time: | 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Hawaii Convention Center, Room 325A |
| Fee: | Full conference participant early: $300; regular: $375; onsite: $450 Student participant early: $225; regular: $275; onsite: $325 Fee includes a continental breakfast and coffee breaks. |
| Instructors: | Carmine Senatore and Tengming Shen |
Course Description: This course addresses the current state and prospects of high temperature superconductor (HTS) technology. After three decades of arduous development, three high-Tc cuprate materials have been developed into long-length composite conductors with high critical current density at magnetic fields or temperatures beyond the reach of Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn. The scope of the course is to illustrate the close synergetic relationship between the development of a deeper understanding of the material properties and the progresses in the conductor technology, with a focus on high field magnet applications. The course is organized in four parts:
- An introduction to high temperature superconductivity;
- The basics of HTS conductor fabrication (REBCO coated conductors, BSCCO-2223 tapes and BSCCO-2212 wires), including latest developments to improve performance;
- An overview of the electromagnetic, electromechanical and thermophysical properties of tape, wire, and cable conductors;
- Critical issues and innovative design concepts for the HTS-based magnets with an overview of noteworthy ongoing projects, including magnets for >1 GHz NMR spectroscopy, high-field fusions, and the next generation of high energy particle colliders.
3. Superconducting Power Devices and Cryogen-Free HTS Magnets
| Date: | Sunday, October 23, 2022 |
| Time: | 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Hawaii Convention Center, Room 326A |
| Fee: | Full conference participant early: $300; regular: $375; onsite: $450 Student participant early: $225; regular: $275; onsite: $325 Fee includes a continental breakfast and coffee breaks. |
| Instructors: | Tabea Arndt, Antonio Morandi, Kiruba S. Haran |
Course Description: Power devices using Superconductors (especially High-Temperature Superconductors HTS) can be designed to have outstanding performances e.g. very high capacity, efficiency and/ or compactness. However, design and engineering have to be adopted to access the full potential using HTS. The short course on Superconducting Power Devices will be organized in four slots covering:
- Superconductivity for electric power grid – power cables, transformers and fault current limiters, part 1 (AM)
- Superconductivity for electric power grid – power cables, transformers and fault current limiters, part 2 (AM)
- Superconducting rotating machines (KH)
- Cryogen-free HTS magnets (TA).
The short course will cover the basic design of each application and present appropriate case studies underpinning the designs. The short course will provide an overview on present limitations, future directions and research needs in the field of these Superconducting Power Devices.
4. Superconducting Quantum Electronics and Sensing
| Date: | Sunday, October 23, 2022 |
| Time: | 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Hawaii Convention Center, Room 327 |
| Fee: | Full conference participant early: $300; regular: $375; onsite: $450 Student participant early: $225; regular: $275; onsite: $325 Fee includes a continental breakfast and coffee breaks. |
| Instructor: | Pascal Febvre, Mikko Kiviranta, Thomas George McConkey |
Course Description: Superconducting electronics is currently gaining momentum due to concerns about energy efficiency for complex electronics systems and quantum electronics. Superconductors can be used as patterned thin films for detectors by using either their thermal or fast intrinsic electrodynamic properties at different wavelengths. Nevertheless a central part of superconducting electronics is based on the use of active devices, Josephson junctions, to perform different electronics tasks, either analogue, digital or quantum, and to sense electromagnetic or magnetic signals in a wide frequency range. After describing the physics and the main properties of superconductors, we will focus on the use of Josephson junctions and show how they are used for applications like the voltage standard, RF heterodyne detection and magnetic detection with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs).
Digital electronics will also be presented with an emphasis on principles of operation as well as design methods and an overview of design tools and capabilities. At last the quantum mode of operation of Josephson junctions used in superconducting qu-bits will be introduced, along with associated properties and some examples of realizations.
Outline:
I – Physics and main properties of superconductors
II – Superconducting microwave passive elements: microstrip and coplanar lines
III – RF properties of Josephson junctions: applications to voltage standard and RF detectors
IV – Magnetic properties of Josephson junctions: applications to SQUID magnetometers, gradiometers and more
V – Digital properties of Josephson junctions: the Single-Flux-Quantum digital logic
VI – Quantum properties of Josephson junctions: quantum approach and superconducting qu-bits
5. High Temperature Superconductors for Electrical Engineering Applications: Cables and Motors
| Date: | Sunday, October 23, 2022 |
| Time: | 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
| Location: | Hawaii Convention Center, Room 326B |
| Fee: | Full conference participant early: $250; regular: $300; onsite: $375 Student participant early: $175; regular: $225; onsite: $275 Fee includes a continental breakfast and a coffee break. |
| Instructors: | Kévin Berger and Rémi Dorget |
Course Description: The aim of this course is to introduce participants to the various theoretical and practical aspects of the design and modeling of superconducting applications such as electrical machines involving bulk superconductors and power cables based on High Temperature Superconducting materials (HTS). A general state of the interest of such applications will first be established through several concrete examples. Then, the key elements of the modeling of these systems and different numerical tools will be presented, including the necessary databases. Finally, two real-life cases will be presented in more detail: the use of a DC HTS cable in the French railway network and the design and manufacture of an HTS motor for aircraft applications.
Short Course Instructors
Tabea Arndt holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. After working at Vacuumschmelze GmbH/Hanau, EAS & EHTS/Hanau, Bruker Biospin/Hanau and Siemens Corporate Technology/Erlangen, in 2019 she joined KIT/Karlsruhe/Germany, faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology as a co-director of the Institute of Technical Physics leading the research field “Superconducting Magnet Technology”. She worked in a variety of public funded and industrial projects (NMR-, MRI-, laboratory and industrial magnets and applications in Electrical Engineering like SFCL, Motors/Generators and cables). She was member/board member/ chairperson of Conectus, ISIS and representative to ESAS and now serves as the curator of the German Ministry of Economy and Climate’s Research Field “High-Temperature Superconductivity” in “Energy Efficiency in Industry”. Since 2008 she is a delegate to the IEA TCP HTS. For a number of years she served as a member/deputy chair of an engineering review panel for ERC-grants and as a reviewer for several foundations and state organizations. Since 2021, her research field at ITEP coordinates a collaborative research project on HTS and liquid hydrogen within the German National Hydrogen Strategy. Recently, the research team is addressing challenges in applications of windings and magnets based on 2G-HTS, again.
Kévin Berger received the M.S. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France, in 2002 and 2006 respectively. His main research topics concern the study of superconducting cables in the railway network and the magnetization of HTS bulks for practical applications such as electrical motors. He is also interested in the potential new bulk materials such as YBCO foams, MgB2 and iron-based superconductors.
After his Ph.D. in 2016, he worked two years at G2ELab and Néel Institute in Grenoble with Prof. Pascal Tixador on the design and realization of an 800 kJ HTS SMES, the first conduction-cooled SMES realized in Europe. Having spent one year in the industry (Exxelia Group) designing magnetic components for aircraft and space applications, he reached an associate professor position at the University of Lorraine, Group of Research in Electrical Engineering of Nancy (GREEN), in France since 2010. He is the author of five book chapters and more than sixty peer-reviewed international journal articles. He is still involved in the development of analytical and numerical tools and is the organizing Committee Chair of the 8th edition of the International Workshop on Numerical Modelling of High Temperature Superconductors, to be held in Nancy, France, from June 14th to 16th, 2022, https://htsmod2022.sciencesconf.org.
Dr. Berger is currently engaged in two H2020 projects: IMOTHEP related to the “Future propulsion and integration: towards a hybrid/electric aircraft” and SMAGRINET regarding “Smart grid competence hub for boosting research, innovation and educational capacities for energy transition”, https://www.smagrinet.eu. Since many years, he is an expert in the TC 90 of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) which prepare International Standards (IS) related to superconducting materials and devices.
Rémi Dorget was born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France in 1996. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, in 2019. He is currently PhD candidate with Safran tech in the “Electrical and Electronic Systems Research group” and the University of Lorraine within the “Groupe de Recherche en Energie Electrique de Nancy, GREEN”. His research topics are the design, the construction and the tests of superconducting electrical machines for aircraft applications.
Pascal Febvre has been working on superconducting electronics since 1991 after receiving his diploma of Physics and Chemistry from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI). He developed THz superconducting (SIS) receivers at the Observatory of Paris in France from 1991 to 1997 for balloon-borne experiments with the French, Swedish and European Space Agencies, and at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) in Pasadena for an airborne experiment in 1992-1993. He joined the laboratory of Microwave and Characterization at Université Savoie Mont Blanc in France in 1997 as a tenure-track associate-professor to work on fast superconducting digital electronics (SFQ electronics) for scientific and telecommunication applications. Current developments are focused on digital magnetometers for geophysics applications and software tools for digital circuits. P. Febvre has authored over 180 international journal and conference papers. He is Senior Member of IEEE and President of the European FLUXONICS Society since 2013. He is involved since 2004 in the dissemination of superconducting electronics in Europe through the regular organization of workshops, conferences and summer schools.
Kiruba S. Haran (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife City, Nigeria, in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree in electric power engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA, in 2000.
He is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the University of Illinois, Urbana– Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. He spent 13 years with GE Research, Niskayuna, NY, USA, as a Senior Engineer and a Manager with Electrical Machines Laboratory devloping and validating megawatt scale superconducting machines for airborne power systems. His research interests include high-specific-power electrical machines and drives, with both superconducting and noncryogenic approaches. He has over 20 years of experience in developing electric machinery and is a co-founder of Hinetics LLC (spin-off of UIUC) focusing on compact air-core electric technology.
Susana Izquierdo Bermudez is currently a staff scientist in the Superconducting Magnets and Cryostats Group at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. After graduating in Energy and Mechanical Engineering at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganes, Spain, in 2010, she joined the CERN Magnet group to work on the preparation activities for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) First Long Shut down. In 2012 she started working in the Magnet Design and Technology Section, on the development of high field Nb3Sn accelerator magnets. Since 2020, she is responsible of the Nb3Sn inner triplet quadrupole magnets for the HiLumi LHC.
Mr. Mikko Kiviranta received his MSc in Technical Physics from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University) in 1992. He is a graduate school dropout. He currently holds the position of Principal Scientist at the VTT Technology Research Centre of Finland Ltd. He has designed dc SQUIDs and worked with SQUID-based systems for more than three decades, from doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-0581-1_150 to doi:10.1063/5.0066240, with an emphasis on the practical aspects of the SQUID use.
Thomas George McConkey joined IBMQuantum three years ago as a microwave design engineer, working on a number of quantum chip designs and developing the open source quantum-EDA tool, Qiskit Metal. Thomas had completed a PhD in 2018 at the University of Waterloo / IQC on the project of ‘Extensible Architecture for Superconducting Quantum Computing’ as a member of the Digital Quantum Matter group. Additionally, he took part in a number of science outreach activities, ranging from running of ‘cryogenic experiments’ for IQC summer school programs to consulting on ‘QUANTUM: The Exhibit’.
Antonio Morandi holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering. Since 2006 he is with the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering where is professor of Electrical Engineering, Electric Energy Storage and Applied Superconductivity. He is supervisor of PhD programs on Applied Superconductivity. His research interests are on power applications of High Temperature Superconductors and advanced energy systems. He has coordinated several research projects in this field funded by Public Agencies and by private companies and has contributed to the prototyping of superconducting power apparatus (FCL and SMES) and to the development of modelling and design tools. Antonio Morandi is author of more than 60 technical papers published in international journals and conferences. He is inventor of three patents. He is reviewer of research projects in the energy sector for the European Commission, the Italian Ministry of University and Research and foreign research institutes. He has given several invited talks at international conferences and research associations and is member of several program committees in international conferences. Antonio Morandi is member of the ESAS – European Society for Applied Superconductivity board. He is member of the Italian mirror Committee IEC TC90 – Superconductivity and is member of the International Steering Committee on HTS Modeling. He has been the chairman of International Workshop HTSModelling2016 and will co-chair the 16th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity – EUCAS 2023, to be hosted in Bologna, Italy from 3 – 7 September 2023. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity.
Carmine Senatore was appointed head of the Group of Applied Superconductivity at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 2010. He received his MSc degree cum laude in Physics in 2000 and his doctoral degree in 2004 at the University of Salerno, Italy. His formation as solid state physicist was focused on the vortex dynamics in high-Tc superconductors. Presently, his primary activity is on superconducting materials for large-scale applications. The research of Prof. Senatore is driven by the challenge to understand and control the basic properties required for the practical implementation of superconductors. This includes all material aspects that play a role in tuning the superconductor properties as well as innovative approaches to the processing of superconducting wires and tapes. His activities focus on the development of both low- and high-Tc superconductors for applications in various fields, from the high field magnets for NMR/MRI systems and particle accelerators to the emerging applications in the electric power infrastructure. Recently, his group has developed and tested in collaboration with Bruker BioSpin a superconducting coil able to generate a magnetic field of 25 Tesla. Senatore also takes part in the CERN study for the next generation accelerator magnets in view of a 100 TeV energy-frontier hadron collider.
Tengming Shen is currently a physicist staff scientist with the Berkeley Center for Magnet Technology at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he researches and develops LTS and HTS superconducting magnets and materials for particle accelerators, particle beam therapy, fusion, nuclear physics, and ultrastable cryogenic microscopes. Between 2010 and 2015, he was a Peoples Fellow and a scientist with Fermilab. Dr. Shen obtained his PhD in electrical engineering in 2010 at the Florida State University with a thesis on Ag/Bi-2212 round wires and magnets at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. His work with HTS materials and magnets has earned him several awards, including an early career award from the U.S. Department of Energy, Peoples Fellowship from Fermilab, Cryogenic Materials for Excellence award from the International Cryogenic Materials Conference, and Roger Boom Award from the Cryogenic Society of America. He has been active at ASCs, and serves as a board member and the materials program chair for the ASC2022. He taught the short courses on HTS superconducting materials and magnets at the ASC2016 and ASC2020 and enjoyed the experience.
Herman ten Kate (Dutch, born in 1955) is emeritus professor at the University of Twente where he was educated and stared his carrier in 1980; since 1997 occupying the Chair of Industrial Application of Superconductivity. In addition he worked at CERN from 1996 until his retirement in April 2020 as Magnet System Project Leader of the ATLAS Experiment, comprising the world’s largest operational superconducting magnet of three huge toroidal magnets and a solenoid. With his team he supported other detector magnet developments as well with coordinated R&D for proposed particle physics experiments like for the Future Circular Collider, linear colliders as CLIC/ILC, antimatter detector PANDA, neutrino detector BabyMIND and solar axions detector BabyIAXO. He continued his work at CERN as honorable member at the Experimental Physics Department. In July 2013 he received the IEEE Lifetime Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions in the Field of Applied Superconductivity. As emeritus professor at the University of Twente he continued his work for guiding PhD students, participating in various magnet review committees, and supporting various R&D projects in collaboration with industries and institutes around the globe.
