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Head-shot of David Cardwell
Email:
dc135@cam.ac.uk
Telephone:
01223 765695
Subject:
Engineering
Department Name:
Department of Engineering
Course(s):
Engineering

Professor David Cardwell

  • Role

    Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Strategy and Planning)

    Professor of Superconducting Engineering in the Department of Engineering

    Former head of department 2014-2018

  • Research

    The processing and characterisation of single grain bulk high-temperature superconductors for high field engineering applications.

  • Awards, Degrees, Honours

    BSc.,FREng,LL.D,MA,PhD

Department webpage 

Professor Cardwell established the Bulk Superconductor research group at Cambridge on the processing and applications of bulk high temperature superconductors, which can be used to generate very high magnetic fields. He is Treasurer of the European Society of Applied Superconductivity (ESAS) and a board member of a number of international journals and conferences. He has authored over 400 technical papers and patents, and currently holds the world record for the largest magnetic field ever generated by a bulk superconductor. Professor Cardwell has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam since 1993, including Admissions Tutor for Sciences (1999-2011) and has been a member of the Tutorial, Education and Communications Committees. He is actively involved in the recruitment of overseas undergraduates for the sciences, and particularly from the Far East. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 in recognition of his contribution to the development of superconducting materials for engineering applications.

 

 Teaching

David has taught on Parts I and II of the Engineering Tripos, including Exposition (IA), Bicycle Design (IIA) and Electrical and Nano Materials (IIB).

 

Selected papers

  1. Durrell, J. H., Dennis, A. R., Jaroszynski, J., Ainslie, M. D., Palmer, K. G. B., Shi, Y.-H., Campbell, A. M., Hull, J., Strasik, M., Hellstrom, E. E. and Cardwell, D. A., Trapped Field of 17.6 T in Melt-Processed, Bulk Gd-Ba-Cu-O Reinforced with Shrink-Fit Steel, Supercond. Sci. Technol.,27, 082001, 2014.
  2. Cardwell, D. A., Processing and Properties of Large Grain (RE)BCO, Mater. Sci. Eng. B, B53, 1, 1998.
  3. Kambara, M, Hari Babu, N., Sadki, E. S., Cooper, J. R., Minami, H., Cardwell, D. A., Campbell, A. M. and Inoue, I. H., High Intergranular Critical Currents in Metallic MgB2 Superconductor, Supercond. Sci. Technol, 14, L5-L7, 2001.
  4. Campbell, A. M. and Cardwell, D. A., Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for Magnet Applications, Cryogenics, 37, 567, 1997.
  5. Cardwell, D. A. and Ginley D. S. (Editors), Handbook of Superconducting Materials, ISBN 0 7503 0898 2, IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2002.
  6. Durrell, J. H., Ainslie, M. A., Zhou, Z., Vanderbemden, P., Bradshaw, T. Speller, S. C., Filipemko, M. and Cardwell, D. A., Bulk Superconductors: A Roadmap to Applications, 31, 103501, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 2018.
  7. Shi, Y.-H., Hari Babu, N. and Cardwell, D. A., Development of a Generic Seed Crystal for the Fabrication of Large Grain (RE)-Ba-Cu-O Bulk Superconductors, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 18, L13, 2005.
  8. Hari Babu, N., Reddy, E. S, Cardwell, D. A., Campbell, A. M., Tarrant, C. D. and Schneider, K. R., Artificial Flux Pinning Centers in Large, Single Grain (RE)BCO Superconductors, Appl. Phys. Lett., 83, 4806, 2003.
  9. Durrell, J. H., Dancer, C. E. J., Dennis, A. R., Shi, Y., Xu, Z., Campbell, A. M., Hari Babu N., Todd, R. I., Grovenor, C. R. M. and Durrell and Cardwell, D. A., A trapped Field of > 3 T in Bulk MgB2 Fabricated by Unixial Hot Pressing, Growth of Large Sized YBa2Cu3O7 Single Crystals using the Top Seeded Melt Growth Process, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 25, 112002, 2012.
  10. Namburi, D. K., Shi, Y-H. and Cardwell, D. A., The Processing and Properties of Bulk (RE)BCO High Temperature Superconductors: Current Status and Future Perspectives, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 34, 053002, 2021