Superconductivity
Abstract
Many potential high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) military applications have been demonstrated by low-temperature superconductivity systems; they encompass high efficiency electric drives for naval vessels, airborne electric generators, energy storage systems for directed-energy weapons, electromechanical launchers, magnetic and electromagnetic shields, and cavity resonators for microwave and mm-wave generation. Further HST applications in militarily relevant fields include EM sensors, IR focal plane arrays, SQUIDs, magnetic gradiometers, high-power sonar sources, and superconducting antennas and inertial navigation systems. The development of SQUID sensors will furnish novel magnetic anomaly detection methods for ASW.
- Publication:
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Critical Technologies for National Defense
- Pub Date:
- 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991ctnd.rept..319Y
- Keywords:
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- Cavity Resonators;
- Electric Generators;
- Energy Storage;
- High Temperature Superconductors;
- Weapon Systems;
- Inertial Navigation;
- Low Temperature;
- Mixed Oxides;
- Sonar;
- Squid (Detectors);
- Transition Temperature;
- Solid-State Physics