Book description
This essential reference provides the most comprehensive presentation
of state-of-the-art research being conducting worldwide today in this
growing field of research and applications. HTS are currently being
supported by numerous governmental and industrial initiatives in the USA
and Asia and Europe to overcome energy distribution issues and are now
being commercialised for power-delivery devices, such as power
transmission lines and cables, motors, and generators. Applications in
electric utilities include energy-storing devices to help industries
avoid dips in electric power, current limiters, and long transmission
lines. The technology is particularly thought out for highly-populated
and densed areas.
Both editors are leading experts in the field from the National
Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. This
book can be used as a companion teaching tool, and also as as a research
and professional reference.
Dr. Raghu N. Bhattacharya is a senior scientist at NREL. He received
his PhD degree in Electronic materials in 1982. Dr. Bhattacharya has
held several research positions at The Weizmann Institute of Technology,
The University of Texas at Arlington and Brooklyn College of CUNY. He
has developed wet chemical processes for the deposition of a variety of
the thin film semiconductors that are important for energy conversion,
storage and transportation. At NREL, Dr. Bhattacharya contributed to the
research and development of the highest efficiency CIGS solar cells in
the world and was the leader of an effort to develop a low cost CIGS
electrodeposition technology. His current research interests include
CIGS thin film solar cells, electrodeposition of thin films for
superconductor applications and wet deposition methods for growing
buffer layers for YBCO superconductors. He has published over 150
technical papers in the field. He has been awarded fourteen patents. He
is the author of two book chapters. He is also a Technical Advisory
Board Member for SoloPower, a private company at California.
M. Parans Paranthaman is the Distinguished Scientist and Acting Group
Leader for the Materials Chemistry Group of the Chemical Sciences
Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is also the
Task Leader for HTS Chemistry Projects at ORNL. He received his PhD
degree in materials science and solid-state chemistry from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1988. He was a postdoctoral fellow
(1988-1991) at the University of Texas Center for Materials Science and
Engineering and a research associate (1991-1993) in the
superconductivity laboratories at the University of Colorado. He joined
the Chemistry Department at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in May 1993.
He is a distinguished inventor at ORNL selected by the Battelle
Institute of Columbus, Ohio. He is one of the co-inventors of the
rolling-assisted biaxially-textured substrate (RABiTS) process for
fabricating high-performance superconductor wires, which earned an
R&D 100 Award in 1999. He has won another R&D 100 Award in 2007
for developing the LMO buffer cap for ion-beam assisted deposited (IBAD)
MgO substrates. Recently, he won the second annual Nanotech Briefs
Nano50 award for ORNL's high-temperature superconducting (HTS) wire
technology "HTS Wires Enabled via 3D Self- Assembly of Insulating
Nanodots". His present research focuses on the development of
coated conductors using vacuum and nonvacuum processing techniques,
materials synthesis, and characterization of high-temperature
superconductors. He has authored or co-authored more than 300
publications in his area and has over 4000 citations to his work. He
holds 19 U. S. patents related to the RABiTS technology. He has written
several book chapters in the area of superconductivity.
