Sentences with word «niobium»

The doping process normally requires the presence of niobium ions in the target material, but this also implies that the concentration of this element is defined from the outset.

Electron bunches will gain energy in niobium cavities like these.

Vinokur and his colleagues observed the phenomenon, called the charge Berezinskii - Kosterlitz - Thouless (BKT) transition, in a microscopically thin film of superconducting niobium titanium nitrite.

The group prepared a device using niobium nitride, and measured the SHE in the superconducting and normal states.

Its flagship model, known as D - Wave Two, or Vesuvius, contains 512 superconducting loops of niobium metal, each containing a Josephson junction.

Quantum teleportation of data across a superconducting chip (like this one made from niobium, sapphire and aluminum) is essential for quantum computing.

Yarn made of niobium nanowires, seen here in a scanning electron microscope image (background), can be used to make very efficient supercapacitors, MIT researchers have found.

Cradle Resources has tapped the investors to raise $ 3.6 million, while also receiving the first $ US5 million tranche of payment as part of its divestment of a 50 per cent stake in its Panda Hill niobium project in Tanzania to Tremont Investments.

In 2006, Martin Tajmar at the Austrian Research Centers facility in Seibersdorf and his colleagues noticed bizarre behaviour in a spinning niobium ring.

But the company's paper in Nature demonstrated definitive quantum behavior in a system with eight qubits, made from superconducting niobium loops.

Niobium also has a very high melting point — nearly 2,500 degrees Celsius — so devices made from these nanowires could potentially be suitable for use in high - temperature applications.

Cradle Resources says it will cost $ US196 million ($ A252 million) to bring its half - owned Panda Hill niobium project in Tanzania into production.

Radu Coldea of the University of Oxford and colleagues applied a powerful magnetic field to a crystal of cobalt and niobium at 0.04 kelvin.

D - Wave announced that it has constructed a 16 - bit version crafted from the superconducting element niobium [see image above].

Kept at minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature at which niobium conducts electricity without losses, these cavities will power a highly energetic electron beam that will create up to 1 million X-ray flashes per second — more than any other current or planned X-ray laser.

The synapse uses standard niobium electrodes but has a unique filling made of nanoscale clusters of manganese in a silicon matrix.

Perth - based Globe Metals and Mining has opted to withdraw from a joint venture exploring in Mozambique to instead focus on its flagship niobium project.

Prominent businessman Ian Middlemas will now chair 11 companies concurrently after replacing Craig Burton as chairman of niobium hopeful Cradle Resources.

Niobium explorer Cradle Resources has recommended shareholders accept a takeover offer from joint venture partner Tremont Investments, which values the target at $ 55 million.

Commerce Resources Corp. [CCE - TSXV, D7H - FSE] said Friday February 16 that the tantalum and niobium sample from its Upper Fir deposit in British Columbia has been successfully processed using the patented... Read more»

A field trip to the Upper Fir carbonatite - hosted niobium - tantalum deposit in the Blue River area, east - central British Columbia....

A team led by Dr Hari Babu Nadendla from the Brunel Centres for Advanced Solidification Techniques found a patented niobium - based master alloy not only filled the missing gap in grain refiners for magnesium alloys but offered significant advantages over titanium in aluminium - silicon alloys.

One leading candidate material for such magnets is niobium tin, which can withstand higher fields but is expensive and must be cooled below 18 kelvin.

But how much niobium is needed to optimize the glass pane's anti-misting properties?

In addition, the material is highly flexible and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter — 140 billionths of a meter across, or about one - thousandth the width of a human hair.

The spin - valve consisted of two ferromagnetic cobalt layers, one superconductive niobium layer with thickness of approximately 150 atoms and a layer of gold.

On a separate silicon chip, they grow a thin, flexible film of silicon nitride, upon which they deposit the superconductor niobium nitride in a pattern useful for photon detection.

It will be surrounded by superconducting niobium coils that create magnetic fields 100,000 times as powerful as Earth's.

Made of pure niobium, this bumpy tube will be superconducting when chilled to near absolute zero in a bath of liquid helium.

Researchers from Rice University experimentally validated the calculations by synthesizing and testing two of the proposed materials, tantalum disulfide and niobium disulfide.

After 49 years and $ 750 million, a Stanford University experiment using superconducting niobium spheres confirmed parts of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

Erich de Geer of the institute says detectors registered between 0.1 and 1.7 millionths of a becquerel of ruthenium, zirconium and niobium shortly after the accident.

The other strategy is based on different elements, including niobium, that propel hydrogen out of the oxide surface and protect the underlying zirconium alloy.

Though this round of naming seems to have gone off without a hitch, other dramatic battles over element names have been waged in the past, from the hundred - year - long battle over the element now called niobium to the Transfermium Wars of the 1960s.

At room temperature, niobium does not superconduct, and accelerometers around the ring measured that it was spinning at a constant rate.

For over 65 years, niobium boride (NbB) has been considered a classic example of a superconducting material.

In the electron microscope images reproduced in the article, the white filaments correspond to the minority phase consisting of approximately 98 percent niobium and 2 percent boron.

Those palladium pr niobium or whatever other * ium - cased Euro - watches that advertise in the Sunday New York Times, however, are fast being relegated to antique status (symbols).

The technology is made of an electrochromic material composed of nanocrystals of indium tin oxide embedded in a glassy matrix of niobium oxide.

Inside each cryomodule are 3 - 4 niobium cavity strings, accordion - like components bathed in liquid helium that keeps the cavities cold to aid in generating very strong electrical fields that drive the beam's acceleration.

The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).

D - Wave instead uses adiabatic quantum computing, in which an array of chilled, superconducting niobium loops — the qubits in this system — very quickly find the lowest point in what can be thought of as an energy «landscape» of hills and valleys.

Last August, physicists in Switzerland successfully teleported information 6 millimeters between two corners of a superconducting chip made from niobium, sapphire and aluminum; the superconducting chip is the basic building block for a quantum computer.

Finally launched in 2004, it carried four gyroscopes — made up of fused quartz balls coated with superconducting niobium that rotated up to 5,000 times per minute.

When positive ions of niobium were displaced toward the centers of the niobate octahedra, a local conducting nature was induced.

While preparations continue for this year's drill program, additional high - grade niobium - tantalum sample assays have arrived from northern Quebec's Niobium Claim Group....

Our research showed significant improvements in both tensile strength and ductility after using the niobium master alloy.

«For both alloys we found the niobium grain refiner could mean an end to the over-engineering of cast components with potential weight savings of up to 30 per cent with no loss of strength or ductility.