Microwave superconductivity Part 2: Current and future applications

The 100th anniversary of superconductivity will be celebrated during 2011. As part of this celebration, a Special Historic Session has been scheduled for IMS 2011 to commemorate this event and highlight the potential impact of superconductivity on electronic technologies, especially in the microwave and terahertz frequencies regimes. In Part 1, a very brief overview of superconductivity and its unique properties was presented along with a summary of some of the early rf and microwave applications. In Part 2, we will describe some of the current applications of superconductivity especially those employing high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials.