We report on the spurious suppression effect in lowmicrowave power transmitters by high temperature superconducting (HTS) bandpass filters (BPFs) which are promising for devices requiring BPFs with high-frequency selectivity. Some of the major issues on the power BPFs with HTS planar circuits for wireless communication applications are reviewed. As a case study for the HTS filter and its spurio...

An extensive interlaboratory comparison was conducted on high temperature superconductor (HTS) critical-current measurements. This study was part of an international cooperative effort through the Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS). The study involved six U.S. laboratories that are recognized leaders in the field of HTS. This paper includes the complete results from ...

A high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnetic shield based on Bi(Pb)2-Sr2-Ca2-Cu3-Ox (Bi-2223) was fabricated by plasma spraying for the purpose of observing a somatosensory-evoked magnetic field generated from the human brain[1]. Recently, a Bi-2223 cylindrical magnetic shield was developed by dip-coating on a 99.9 % MgO ceramic substrate. A highly-sensitive current monitor using this HTS ...

Drug discovery today requires the focused use of laboratory automation and other resources in combinatorial chemistry and high-throughput screening (HTS). The ultimate value of both combinatorial chemistry and HTS technologies and the lasting impact they will have on the drug discovery process is a chapter that remains to be written. Central to their success and impact is how well they are inte...

This paper experimentally investigates the relationship between the operating temperature and the power handling capability (PHC) of a coplanar waveguide (CPW) high-temperature superconducting (HTS) dual-band bandpass filter (DBPF) using a YBCO thin film deposited on a MgO substrate. The PHC is evaluated based on the intermodulation distortion of the HTS-DBPF. Experimental results show that the...

In an induction heater for heating of aluminum billets, the main reason for using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes instead of conventional copper conductors is to reduce the large power losses in the induction coil. In this work we present how to calculate the different loss contributions of an induction heater based on HTS tapes. Calculations of these losses are used in the design ...

Andreev reflection is investigated in layered anisotropic normal metal / superconductor (NE) systems in the case of an energy gap in S not negligible respect to the Fermi energy, as probably occurring in high critical temperature superconductors (HTS). We find that in these limits retroreflectivity, which is a fundamental feature of Andreev reflection, is broken modifying sensitively transport ...

In high throughput screening (HTS) campaigns, the quality and cost of commercial reagents suitable for pilot studies often create obstacles upon scale-up to a full screen. We faced such challenges in our efforts to implement an HTS for inhibitors of the phosphopantetheinyl transferase Sfp using an assay that had been validated using commercially available reagents. Here we demonstrate a facile ...