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The increase of current uniformity along of a resistive type superconductor fault current limiter (R-SFCL) in the design of this type of limiters is well perceived as an important issue. The non-uniform distribution of current in R-SFCL…
This study explores transitions between states with different winding number in two-band superconducting rings. From the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equations for two-component superconductors, we apply linear instability theory…
Nowadays, there is growing interest in using superconducting wires or tapes for the design and manufacture of devices such as cables, coils, rotating machinery, transformers and fault current limiters among others. Their high current…
In a multi-terminal device the (electronic) heat and charge currents can follow different paths. In this paper we introduce and analyse a class of multi-terminal devices where this property is pushed to its extreme limits, with charge $and$…
This paper investigates voltage stability in inverter-based power systems concerning fold and saddle-node bifurcations. An analytical expression is derived for the sensitivity of the stability margin using the normal vector to the…
The experimental determination of the superconducting transition requires the observation of the emergence of zero-resistance and perfect diamagnetism state. Based on the close relationship between superconducting transition temperature…
This tutorial paper shows how to compute the DC (or low-frequency) resistance, inductance and capacitance of a pair of parallel wires using the finite element method. A three-dimensional infinite domain (open boundary) modeling of…
Here we describe a three-dimensional current mapping technology developed for a superconductor using an array of Hall sensors distributed around it. We demonstrate this in a prototype similar to a conventional resistive superconducting…
Power converters inherently display non-linear load characteristics, resulting in a high level of mains harmonics, and hence the necessity of implementing Power Factor Correction (PFC). Active PFC circuitry typically comprises an inductor…
The dynamics and performance of a two-coil resonant coupled wireless power transfer system are investigated. At high coupling, the frequency-splitting phenomenon occurs, in which the power transferred to the load attains its maximum at two…
We show a novel method for controlling the coupling of flux-based qubits by means of a superconducting transformer with variable flux transfer function. The device is realized by inserting a small hysteretic dc SQUID with unshunted…
We have shown that the weak-coupling limit superconductors are well described by $ q \sim 1 $, where $ q $ is a real parameter which characterizes the degree of nonextensivity of Tsallis' entropy. Nevertheless, small deviations with respect…
The design of superconducting applications containing windings of superconducting wires or tapes requires electro-thermal quench modelling. In this article, we present a reliable numerical method based on a variational principle and we…
We report on flux confinement effects in superconducting submicron line, loop and dot structures. The main idea of our study was to vary the boundary conditions for confinement of the superconducting condensate by taking samples of…
Present semiconductor research is increasingly focusing on either higher speeds or higher linearity or both. Applications range from consumer, industrial, healthcare and military. Typically such circuits are fabricated in today's…
Input current estimation is indispensable in the sensorless control algorithms for the problem of power factor compensation (PFC) of an AC-DC boost converter. The system estimator design is challenged by the bilinear form dynamics and…
A 2D electromagnetic-thermal coupled numerical model has been developed using the finite element method and validated against experimental data to investigate a superconducting machine featuring high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape…
We consider competition of Kondo effect and s-wave superconductivity in heavy fermion and mixed valence superconductors, using the phenomenological approach for the periodic Anderson model. Similar to the well known results for…
Material research is a key frontier in advancing superconducting qubit and circuit performance. In this work, we develop a simple and broadly applicable framework for accurately characterizing two-level system (TLS) loss using internal…
While insensitive to weak non magnetic disorder, an s-wave superconductor can be driven insulating by strong disorder. Using a scheme that captures the correct ground state, and fully retains thermal amplitude and phase fluctuations, we…