APPENDIX F. GLOSSARY

AC/ac

Alternating current

AEG

Allgemeine Elektrizität Gesellschaft

AIST

(Japan) Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, a part of MITI

AML&P

(U.S.) Anchorage Municipal Light and Power (utility)

ANL-CFTF

Argonne National Lab, Coal-Fired Test Facility

ASC

American Superconductor Corp.

ASD

Adjustable-speed drive

B&W

(U.S.) Babcock and Wilcox

Bi-2212

Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_x

Bi-2223

(Bi, Pb)₂Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O_x

BICC

British Insulated Callendars Cables, Ltd., a major British wire and cable producer

BMBF

(Germany) Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Technology

BNL

(U.S.) Brookhaven National Laboratory

BRITE EuRAM

Basic Research of Industrial Technologies for Europe, European Research on

Advanced Materials program

BSCCO-2223

(Bi, Pb)₂ Sr₂Ca₂Cu₃O_x

CEC/ICMC Meeting

Cryogenic Engineering Conference/International Cryogenic Materials

Conference

CERN

European Laboratory for Particle Physics (located on French/Swiss border)

CIC

Cable-in-conduit

CONECTUS

Consortium of European Companies (determined to use superconductivity)

CRIEPI

(Japan) Central Research Institute of the Electrical Power Industry

CRT

Composite reaction textured (material)

CSAC

Council on Superconductivity for American Competitiveness (U.S.)

CVD

Chemical vapor deposition

dc

Direct current

DESY

Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron (Lab)

DOE

(U.S.) Department of Energy

EERE

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (within DOE's Office of

Energy Management)

EPRI

(U.S.) Electric Power Research Institute (consortium of electric utilities)

ETL

(Japan) Electrotechnical Laboratory, MITI

Euratom

European Atomic Energy Community, established at the same time as the

European Community

FCL

Fault current limiter

FRP

Fiber-reinforced plastic

FWHM

Full width at half maximum

FZK

Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe

GM

Gifford McMahon (refrigerator)

H

Henry (unit for inductance)

Hastelloy

Trade name of commercial Ni-based high temperature alloys

HEP/DOE

Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics, U.S. Department of Energy

H_OP

Operating magnetic field

HTS

High temperature superconductor/superconductive/superconductivity

I

Current expressed in amps

I²R

Joule heating, the product of the current squared times the resistance of a

conductor

IBAD

Ion beam assisted deposition

I_c

Critical current of a superconductor, the maximum amount of current that can

flow below a fixed electric field or resistivity criterion

ID

inner diameter

I_FL

I = current, FL = full load / Full load current

IGC

(U.S.) Intermagnetics General Corp.

IPP

Independent power producer

IR

Current times the resistance of a conductor; equals the voltage drop along the

conductor

IRD

International Research and Development Co., Ltd.

I_SC

I = current, SC = short circuit

ISIS

International Superconductivity Industry Summit

ISTEC

(Japan) International Superconductivity Technology Center

ITER

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor

I-V

Current-voltage

JAERI

Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute

J_c

Critical current density

J_e

Engineering critical current density (current/total conductor cross-section)

JEOL

Japan Electron Optics, Ltd., a major supplier of electro-optical, analytical

(including NMR spectrometers) and medical equipment

JR

Japan Railway Group of passenger and freight rail companies

JRDC

Japan Research Development Corporation (recently renamed JST)

JST

Japan Science and Technology Corporation (funded by STA)

KEK

(Japan) National Laboratory for High-Energy Physics

KEPCO

(Japan) Kansai Electric Power Co.

LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LHC

Large Hedron Collider at CERN

LL

Load losses

LLNL

(U.S.) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LPE

Liquid phase epitaxy

LTS

Low temperature superconductor/superconductive/superconductivity

Maglev

Magnetic levitation project of Japan's Railway Technical Research Institute

MEG

Magnetoencephalography

MELCO

(Japan) Mitsubishi Electric Co.

M-G

Motor-generator

MHD

Magnetohydrodynamic

MITI

(Japan) Ministry of International Trade and Industry

MOCVD

Metallorganic chemical vapor deposition

MOE

(Japan) Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture

MOV

Metal oxide varistor

MPI

(Germany) Max Planck Institutes

MPMG

Melt powder melt growth

MRI

Magnetic resonance imaging

Nd-422

Nd₄Ba₂Cu₂O_x

NEDO

(Japan) New Energy and Industrial Technology Development

Organization (funded by MITI)

NIFS

(Japan) National Institute of Fusion Science (Nagoya)

NLL

No-load loss

NMR

Nuclear magnetic resonance

NREL

(U.S.) National Renewable Energy Lab

NRIM

(Japan) National Research Institute for Metals

OD

Outer diameter

OFE/DOE

Office of Fusion Energy, U.S. Department of Energy

OST

(U.S.) Oxford Superconducting Technology

PCS

Persistent current switch

PCS

Power conditioning system

PIT

Powder in tube (conductor)

PLD

Pulsed laser deposition

p-YSZ

Polycrystalline yttrium-stabilized zirconia

QMG

Quench melt growth

RE

Rare earth element (such as La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, etc.)

RE-123 oxides

123 compound formed with a rare earth instead of yttrium

rf

Radio frequency

rms

Root mean square

RWE

(The largest German utility)

SBIR

Small business innovative research program, U.S. government

SC

Superconductivity

SC/PM

Superconductor/permanent magnet (assembly)

SCFCL

Superconductive fault current limiter

SFQ

Single flux quantum

SI

(U.S.) Superconductivity, Inc.

SMES

Superconducting magnetic energy storage

SPI

(U.S., DOE) Superconductivity Partnership Initiative (focused on systems

technology)

SPTL

Superconducting power transmission line

SQUID

Superconducting quantum interference device, a sensitive magnetic sensor

SRL

(Japan) Superconducting Research Laboratory -- part of ISTEC

SSC

Superconducting Super Collider Project (U.S., now cancelled)

STA

(Japan) Science and Technology Agency

Super-GM

(Japan, administered by NEDO) Engineering Research Association Project for

Superconductive Generator Equipment and Materials

T

Tesla as a unit for magnetic flux density; temperature when used as a symbol

or abbreviation

T_c

Superconducting critical temperature: maximum temperature at which a

material exhibits superconduction properties

TEM

Transmission electron microscope or microscopy

TEPCO

(Japan) Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Tl-1223

(Tl, Pb)(Ba, Sr)₂Ca₂Cu₃O_x

VAMAS

Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards, includes

standardization of testing and evaluation methods for low temperature

superconductors

XLPE

Cross-linked polyethylene (industry designation for dry insulated high voltage lines)

Y-123

YBa₂Cu₃O_x (see also YBCO)

Y-211

Y₂BaCuO₅

YBCO

YBa₂Cu₃O_7-d (see also Y-123)

YSZ

Yttrium-stabilized zirconia

Z

Impedence (complex [ac] impedance of a circuit or component consisting of a

resistive and a reactive part)