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Umberto Gambardella

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1982

 

Thermal efficiency and energy saving in civil heating systems

1983-84

 

Cryogenic cooling, closed cycle cryocoolers, cryopumps - dynamical states in long Josephson junctions

1985-86

 

Dynamical states in Josephson junctions - dilution refrigerators – Vacuum technologies instructor (160 h) at Alfa Romeo Avio spa  (aircraft engines manufacturer and maintenance), Italy

1986-1991

 

Superconducting wiggler for synchrotron radiation (SCOW project, INFN Frascati) - Superconducting cavities for linear particle accelerators (LISA project, INFN Frascati)

1992-1999

 

1D and 2D array of Josephson junctions

1987-2004

 

High temperature superconducting materials, transport properties, thin film deposition, PLD analysis of film growth by means of optical spectroscopy

1996-2006

 

Transport properties of HTc superconductors and their magnetic properties in high magnetic field

2001-06

 

MgB2 film deposition, MgB2 tapes and wires characterization (dc transport and VSM magnetic measurements), MgB2 tape applications (pancake cryogen free magnet, racetrak)

2004-06

 

Nb3Sn wire for NED (Next European Dipole) magnetic measurements with high field VSM

2005-07

 

Stability features in MgB2 tapes and  HTS 2ndG tapes (YBCO coated conductors)

2006-13

 

INFN DISCORAP project (complete realization of 4.5T fast ramped, bended, 6 ton, 4 meter long prototype s/c dipole for SIS300 synchrotron): VSM characterization, ac susceptibility measurements of low loss NbTi wire; design, and manufacturing of the cryostat for DISCORAP prototype dipole; cryostat/dipole integration.

2012-13

 

YBCO deep coating device; 2G tapes characterization: critical current, ac losses, stability and quench propagation in a 2D environment.

2012-14

 

INFN "PONa3_0007 "Potenziamento Infrastrutturale" (INFN, ENEA, UniSA, and CRdC joint program for infrastructural enhancement): design and procurement of 200W 4.5K cryogenic refrigeration system, 20 kA power supply and HTS current leads for test of accelerator magnets

2014-16

 

YBCO 2G tape applications, NbTi wires for dissipative applications

2016-22

 

Superconducting magnets for axion detector

2019-27

 

Test of SIS100 Superconducting Quadrupole Modules (FAIR)

2022-25

 

PNRR IRIS program to set up new Research Infrastructure for testing superconducting power energy line (40 kA, 25kV)

2022-25

 

EuroLABS - EU program for transnational access to Research Infrastructure