Superconducting Materials Center
Establish the basis for the practical use of the superconducting wire by research that makes wire based on the concept of the structural control in nano-sized level.
At the Superconducting Materials Center, search and development of novel superconducting materials, synthesis of high-quality superconductors and assessment of their properties, development and application of SQUID microscopes and high-field magnets are being pushed forward, in liaison with other institutions encompassing an extensive range of expertise.
Managing Director's Greeting
- Managing Director
- Hiroaki KUMAKURA
Superconductor application technology is being scrutinized as a key technology for realizing a healthful society in the 21st Century. Technological revolutions in all types of fields – such as energy, the environment, medicine, life sciences, ICT and transportation – could become possible thanks to the functions of superconductive materials. At our center, we seek to develop novel superconductive materials as well as improve existing materials, and carry out integrated research from basic research to applications.
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Groups
Advanced Superconducting Wires Group
We are developing high-function, low-cost superconducting wires for the new superconductor Magnesium diboride, a metallic material that has high transition temperature (Tc). We also seek to develop superconductor coils using these wires.
| Group Leader | Hiroaki KUMAKURA | ||
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| Group Member | Tsuneo KURODA | Hiroki FUJII | Takayuki NAKANE |
High-Tc Superconducting Wires Group
We conduct research related to wire production technology for Bismuth oxide high-temperature superconductors. We aim to expand our work into high-field applications, including magnets and seeking to elevate the functions of superconducting wires with our research efforts..
| Group Leader | Hitoshi KITAGUCHI | ||
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| Group Member | Akiyoshi MATSUMOTO | ||
High Field Superconducting Wires Group
We are developing highly functional, long and stable superconducting wires applying materials science approaches like diffusion and metamorphosis based upon precursor RHQT (rapid heating, quenching and transformation) technology, with the objective of making possible practical applications of Niobium Aluminum-based superconducting wires for 1GHz-level high-field NMR magnets.
| Group Leader | Takao TAKEUCHI | ||
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| Group Member | Yasuo IIJIMA | Akihiro KIKUCHI | Nobuya BANNO |
Physical Properties Group
We grow crystals using high-temperature oxide superconductors and metallic compounds in addition to carrying out development of nanostructure processing technology plus assessment on said nanostructure properties. We seek to elucidate superconductive properties and new functions as well as to find applications of such functions to superconductive devices. Moreover, we are researching their applications to high-temperature SQUID systems.
| Group Leader | Kazuto HIRATA | ||
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| Group Member | Hiroyuki TAKEYA | Takashi MOCHIKU | Shuuichi OOI |
| Kazunori KOMORI | Minoru TACHIKI | Dongfeng HE | |
Magnet Development Group
We seek to use superconductor wires as well as normal-conductor copper-silver alloys in order to develop magnets with practical applications. We are developing equipment such as high-resolution solid-state NMR magnets and high-field hybrid magnets.
| Group Leader | Tsukasa KIYOSHI | ||
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| Group Member | Toshihisa ASANO | Shinji MATSUMOTO | |
New Materials Group
The discovery of novel superconductors is the goal of our research. We aim to elucidate the phenomena of “superconduction” by synthesizing and carrying out structural analysis on new Cobalt-based superconductors or other low-dimensional functional materials as well as measurements on their properties.
| Group Leader | Eiji MUROMACHI | ||
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| Group Member | Masaaki ISOBE | Kazunari YAMAURA | Tetsuya KAWASHIMA |
| Hiroya SAKURAI | Makoto TACHIBANA | ||
Nano Frontier Materials Group
We carry out studies on new materials and new functions, not to mention basic research, concerning superconductors such as research work as to diamond superconductors and boron-doped carbon nanotubes, in addition to intrinsic Josephson junctions utilizing high-temperature superconductor cross-whiskers.
| Group Leader | Yoshihiko TAKANO | ||
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| Group Member | Takahide YAMAGUCHI | ||
Contact to Center
Superconducting Materials Center, NIMS
1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047 JAPAN
TEL. +81-29-851-3354 (ex.2368)
