omega tau - English only

285 - Superconductivity


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Guest: Pierre Bauer    Host: Markus Voelter    Shownoter: Kolja Dummann

Superconductivity, the ability of a material to carry electrical current with zero resistance, is a surprising property of nature, which man has been able to exploit in many ways, in particular, for high-performance magnets. Those are used in magnetic resonance imagers, but also in colliders and fusion reactors. In this episode we discuss the basics of superconductivity and its uses with Pierre Bauer, a superconductor engineer at ITER.

Superconductivity and its Discovery 00:03:05

Inversion temperature | Kamerlingh Onnes | James Dewar | Helium | Fritz London | Heinz London | Ohm's law | Energy Gap | Pauli exclusion principle | Cooper pair | Meissner effect

Applications of Superconductors 00:39:08

ITER (omega tau 157 - Fusion at ITER | MRI - Magnetic resonance imaging | LHC - Large Hadron Collider (omega tau 30 – The Large Hadron Collider)  | omega tau 96 - Controlling the LHC Beam)  | StarTram | Railgun

Materials 00:56:45

Mercury  | Niobium | Tin (XFEL - European X-ray free-electron laser | omega tau 197 - The European XFEL | FCC - Future Circular Collider (omega tau 231 – The Future Circular Collider)

Magnet Design 01:14:40

Diffusion barrier

Quench Protection 01:54:30

Fringe Fields (MagLab - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory)  | Superfluidity

Conclusion 02:42:27

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