Imagine a world in which free-floating electric vehicles charge wirelessly as they glide down highways, laptops are hundreds ...

In a landmark achievement for fusion energy, ITER has completed all components for the world's largest, most powerful pulsed ...

Superconductors are one major step closer to practical use thanks to new work from Columbia University physicists.

The ITER Organisation has completed all components for the world’s largest, most powerful pulsed superconducting ...

Fabrication and testing of the sixth and final 110-tonne superconducting magnet for the ITER fusion machine's 18-metre-tall ...

while the other displays conventional superconductivity. Researchers have discovered an unexpected superconducting transition in extremely thin films of niobium diselenide (NbSe₂). Published in ...

Type II superconductors are more complex materials, typically alloys or compounds, such as niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) and yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO). They have two critical magnetic fields: a lower ...

Niobium, is listed as a rare metal with high strategic value, primarily used in steel alloys to improve strength, lightness, and energy efficiency. Its applications include superconductors ...

Fabricated about 8% of the Niobium-Tin (Nb3Sn) superconductors used in ITER’s Toroidal Field magnets. Russia has * Delivered the 9-meter-diameter ring-shaped Poloidal Field magnet that will ...