Superpower, Inc.

Igc-super Power, LLC

Drew Willard Hazelton

Xing Yuan

Venkat Selvamanickam

Yunfei Qiao

Michael Stephen Walker

A superconductive article is disclosed, having a substrate a buffer layer overlying the substrate, and a superconductive layer overlying the buffer layer. According to embodiments, the article may have low density characteristics, associated with the article as a whole and/or individual layers of the article. The article may be embodied in the form of long length conductors, coiled long length conductors, and machines incorporating such coils, for example.

Superconductive articles having density characteristics

A method and apparatus for magnetically triggering a superconductor in a superconducting fault current limiter to transition from a superconducting state to a resistive state. The triggering is achieved by employing current-carrying trigger coil or foil on either or both the inner diameter and outer diameter of a superconductor. The current-carrying coil or foil generates a magnetic field with sufficient strength and the superconductor is disposed within essentially uniform magnetic field region. For superconductor in a tubular-configured form, an additional magnetic field can be generated by placing current-carrying wire or foil inside the tube and along the center axial line.

Method and apparatus to trigger superconductors in current limiting devices

A modular and scalable Matrix-type Fault Current Limiter (MFCL) that functions as a &ldquo;variable impedance&rdquo; device in an electric power network, using components made of superconducting and non-superconducting electrically conductive materials. The detection of a fault and subsequent activation of the current-limiting impedance of the MFCL are done passively by built-in matrix design, without assistance of active control mechanisms.

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Drew Willard Hazelton