Robert Hammond - 2018 recipient of IEEE Dr. James Wong Award for Continuing and Significant Contributions to Applied Superconductor Materials Technology

Robert Hammond

Stanford University
United States
6 (Western U.S.)
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For continuing and significant contributions in the field of superconducting materials research, in particular,
• for development of Ion Beam Assisted Deposition (IBAD) method for making textured buffer on flexible metal tapes, paving the way to manufacture HTS tapes in long production length with high mechanical strength required for very high field magnet;
• for the first demonstration of ternary phase diagram to provide the correlation between in situ growth conditions and thermodynamic stability criteria for YBCO (ReBCO) superconductor, which showed the liquid process was the key in e-beam RCE and subsequent conversion process; and,
• for contributions to control of multi-source co-evaporation of superconducting films, making high-throughput, and cost-effective fabrication of HTS wire possible.
President Bruce Strauss and Awards Chair Joe Minervini with Bob Hammond at ASC 2018