Innovation prize for a novel superconducting cable
© 2016 EPFL
Pierluigi Bruzzone and Davide Uglietti of SPC received, with their colleagues from KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), the first European prize for innovation in fusion research, for their work on high temperature superconducting cables.
At the recent Symposium On Fusion Technology (SOFT), the first European prize for innovation in fusion research, worth € 50,000, was awarded to W. Fietz (KIT), P. Bruzzone (SPC), R. Heller (KIT), K.-P. Weiss (KIT), D. Uglietti (SPC) and Wolf (KIT), for their work on high temperature superconducting cables.
The laudatio is: 'For their important contributions to the development of a novel and innovative type of high temperature superconducting 'CrossConductor' cable based on REBCO material (rare-earth barium copper oxide) and the transfer of this innovation to industrial applications'.
This type of superconducting cable consists in a stack of superconducting material tapes of different widths, welded together and thereby forming a cross, which is inserted in a round copper shell. The cruciform section allows larger current densities in the conductor.
