9th Symposium of High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields
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High Temperature Superconductors in High Frequency Fields
HSTHFF 2006
25th - 28th June 2006 at Cathays Park, Cardiff, UK
   
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HTSHFF 2006 Programme
     
Sunday 25th June (pm):  
  Welcome and Registration Time
     
  Registration (Aberdare Hall) 17:00 - 19:30
  Welcome Reception (Aberdare Hall) 19:00 - 19:30
  Buffet dinner (Aberdare Hall) 19:30 - 22:00
     
Monday 26th June (am):
Session 1 Nonlineariities  
  Chairs: JM O'Callaghan and DE Oates  
     

 

Opening Greetings
(Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building)		 08:30 - 08:40
OATES DE Overview of nonlinearity in HTS: what we have learned and prospects for improvement 08:40 - 09:10
HEIN MA Effects of oxygen doping on the microwave nonlinearities of e-beam evaporated YBaCuO on LaAlO3 09:10 - 09:30
VELICHKO AV Nonlinear microwave properties of HTS thin films: selected issues 09:30 - 09:50
AGASSI YD Theory and measurement of the nonlinear response of a superconductor thin film to a microwave frequency radiation field 09:50 - 10:10
ANDREONE A Discerning intrinsic and extrinsic nonlinearities in the microwave response of superconductors 10:10 - 10:30
     
  Coffee Break  
     
BOOTH JC Routes for further reduction in nonlinear response of HTS devices 10:50 - 11:20
SERON D Characterization of ferroelectric/superconductor bilayers for high power-handling microwave passive devices 11:20 - 11:40
O'CALLAGHAN JM General procedure for calculating intermodulation distortion in coupled-resonator filters with non-uniform distributed nonlinear properties 11:40 - 12:00
HALBRITTER J DC and RF transport via growth boundary networks of Mott versus band gap insulators in the normal and superconducting state 12:00 - 12:20
     
  Lunch (Aberdare Hall)  
     
Monday 26th June (pm):  
Session 2 Applications I  
  Chairs: MJ Lancaster and H Piel  
     
WILLEMSEN B Low cost, high reliability HTS cryogenic receiver front ends for commercial Wireless
 13:30 - 14:00
LEESE de ESCOBAR AM Developing a cryogenically enabled radio frequency distribution system 14:00 - 14:20
MAGE J-C HTS microwave applications and complex circuits problems 14:20 - 14:40
CAO B Fabrication of HTS filter subsystems and field test for CDMA mobile comms 14:40 - 15:00
     
  Coffee Break  
     
MANSOUR R Highly miniaturized multilayer superconducting filter 15:20 - 15:50
HUANG F Adaptations of spiral resonators for a wide range of bandwidths in HTS microwave filters 15:50 - 16:10
ALFORD N Tuneable dielectric resonator filters 16:10 - 16:30
YAMANAKA K Design of a mechanical tuning for superconducting microwave power filters 16:30 - 16:50
     
Monday 26th June (pm):  
Session 3 Posters (A full list of Poster Displays is shown below)
  Chairs: F Huang and A Porch  
  Rapid overview of poster presentations
(maximum: two minutes per poster)		 16:50 - 17:20
  Poster Session (Aberdare Hall) 18:30 - 20:00
     
Poster Displays Number
     
GUO X A novel HTS shuttle-shape resonator for high power application 01
KALENYUK OA Nonlinear microwave properties of YBaCuO film strip-line resonator 02
SAITO A Design of 5 GHz superconducting transmit filters for improvement of power handling capability 03
OHSHIMA S DC magnetic field dependence of surface resistance of DyBaCuO thin films measured by sapphire rod resonator method 04
SUHERMAN PM Comparison of the performance of HTS/BaxSr1-xTiO3 and Ag/BaxSr1-xTiO3 thin film
phase shifters
 05
CONSTANTINIAN KY Microwave noise properties of oxide SQIF 06
SCHARNBERG K Disorder effects in unconventional superconductors 07
LEE SY Effects of proton irradiation on the microwave surface resistance of MgB2 films 08
GALLITTO A Effects of weak links in the nonlinear microwave response of bulk MgB2 09
CIFARIELLO G Intrinsic nonlinearity probed by intermodulation distortion microwave measurements on high quality MgB2 films grown by HPCVD 10
SARTI S Vortex motion and quasiparticle resistivity in MgB2 at microwave frequencies 11
ZAITSEV AG Microwave properties of in situ MgB2 thin films and their dependence on dc magnetic field 12
     
  Dinner (Aberdare Hall)  
     
Tuesday 27th June (am):
Session 4 Materials and Characterization  
  Chairs: MA Hein and A Andreone  
     
BROUN D Microwave spectroscopy of underdoped YBaCuO single crystals 08:30 - 09:00
POMPEO N Dielectric resonators for surface impedance measurement of superconductor thin films in magnetic fields at high microwave frequencies 09:00 - 09:30
PAN VM Microwave response of perfect YBaCuO thin films deposited on CeO2-buffered sapphire: a probe for pairing symmetry
 09:30 - 09:50
HARI BABU N Microwave properties and applications of bulk YBaCuO 09:50 - 10:10
SILVA E Microwave surface impedance in the vortex state in Tl-2212 thin films 10:10 - 10:30
     
  Coffee Break  
     
MOECKLY BH Deposition methods for MgB2 thin film growth 10:50 - 11:20
MOECKLY BH Microwave properties of MgB2 thin films prepared on sapphire, MgO, LaAlO3 and alumina by reactive evaporation 11:20 - 11:40
ORMENO RJ High frequency study of thallium doped lead telluride 11:40 - 12:00
WU J Application of a variable temperature near-field scanning microwave microprobe for characterization of HTS films 12:00 - 12:20
     
  Lunch (Aberdare Hall)  
     
Tuesday 27th June (pm):
  Workshop Outing
Museum of Welsh Life and Tour of Cardiff Bay		 14:30 - 17:30
     
Tuesday 27th June (pm):
 

Workshop Banquet at Cardiff Castle

 19:00 - 22:30
  (Drinks: 19:00, Dinner: 19:30)  
     
Wednesday 28th June (am):
Session 5 Applications II  
  Chairs: M Nisenoff and RS Withers  
     
SCHOPOHL N Principles of the superconducting quantum interference filter (SQIF) 09:00 - 09:30
SCHOPOHL N Quadratic mixing of radio frequency signals using superconducting quantum interference filters 09:30 - 09:50
WOERDENWEBER R HTS vortex ratchets at microwave frequencies 09:50 - 10:10
     
  Coffee Break  
     
KLEIN N THz applications of oxide thin films
 10:30 - 11:00
KADOWAKI K THz generation by Josephson vortex flow 11:00 - 11:20
WANG Y Building left-handed transmission lines using HTS 11:20 - 11:40
WOSIK J Superconducting coil arrays for research and clinical MRI 11:40 - 12:00
     
  Discussion:
 On the 20th anniversary of HTS,
where do we go from here?		 12:00 - 12:50
     
  Concluding Remarks 12:50 - 13:00
  Close 13:00
     
     
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