Professor David A. Cardwell

Contact Details
Tel:  +44 (0)1223 330266
Fax:  +44 (0)1223 339263
Email:  dc135@eng.cam.ac.uk

Professor of Superconducting Engineering

• BSc, Warwick University, 1983
• PhD, Warwick University, 1987
• MA, Cambridge University, 1995

Research Interests:

• High temperature superconductivity
• Processing of bulk superconductors
• Magnetic properties of bulk superconductors
• Engineering applications of high temperature superconductors

Research Group & other Affiliations:

• Materials
• on the Editorial Board of International Materials Reviews
• on the Advisory Board of Superconductor Science and Technology
• Treasurer of the European Society for Applied Superconductivity
• on the International Advisory Board of the International Superconductivity Symposium
• member of the Board of the International Conference on Cryogenic materials (ICMC)
• member of the International Advisory board of the European Conference on Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS)

Publications of particular interest:

1. Full list of publications ....

1. Vanderbemden, P., Hong, Z., Coombs, T. A., Denis S., Ausloos, M., Schwartz, J., Rutel, I. B., Hari Babu, N., Cardwell, D. A. and Campbell, A. M., Behavior of Bulk High-temperature Superconductors of Finite Thickness Subjected to Crossed Magnetic Fields, Phys. Rev. B, 75, 174515, 2007.
2. Cardwell, D. A. and Weber, H. W. (Editors), Flux Pinning and Other Related Effects in Superconductors, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 20, 2007.
3. Hari Babu, N., Iida, K. and Cardwell, D. A., Magnetic Flux Pinning in Melt Processed Nano-composite Single Grain Superconductors, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 20, S141, 2007.
4. Vanderbemden, P., Hong, Z., Coombs, T. A., Ausloos, M., Hari Babu, N., Cardwell, D. A. and Campbell, A. M., Remagnetization of Bulk High-temperature Superconductors Subjected to Crossed and Rotating Magnetic Fields, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 20, S141, 2007.
5. Iida, K., Hari Babu, N. and Cardwell, D. A., Silver-doped Y-Ba-Cu-O Bulk Superconductors Fabricated by Seeded Infiltration and Growth, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 20, 1065, 2007.
6. Cardwell, D. A. and Hari Babu, N., Improved Magnetic Flux Pinning in Bulk (RE)BCO Superconductors, Adv. Cryo. Eng. Mat., 54, 543, 2008.
7. Siraj, K., Pedarnig, J. D., Moser, A., Bäuerle, D., Hari Babu, N. and Cardwell, D. A, Enhanced Self-field Critical Current Density of Nano-composite YBa2Cu3O7 Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition, Euro. Phys. Letts., 82, 57006, 2008.
8. Shi, Y.-H., Hari Babu, N., Iida, K. and Cardwell, D. A, Superconducting Properties of Gd-Ba-Cu-O Single Grains Processed from a New, Ba-rich Precursor Compound, J. Phys: Conf. Ser., 97, 429, 2008.
9. Chen, D.-X., Sanchez, A., Navau, C., Shi, Y.-H. and Cardwell, D. A, Critical Current Density of Melt Grown, Single Grain Y-Ba-Cu-O Discs Determined by AC Susceptibility Measurements, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 21, 085013, 2008.
10. Laurent, P., Fagnard, J. F., Vanderheyden, B., Hari Babu, N., Cardwell, D. A., Ausloos, M. and Vanderbemden, P., An AC Susceptometer for the Characterization of Large, Bulk Superconducting Samples, Meas. Sci. Technol., 19, 085705, 2008.

Post-Doctoral and Graduate Research Opportunities

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