Professor David Cardwell
BSc., MA., PhD., FInstP., FIET, CPhys, CEng
Fellow
Subject: Engineering
Department: Engineering
Role:
Lead Admissions Tutor
Lead Admissions Tutor, Archaeology & Anthropology
Tutor
Email: dc135@cam.ac.uk
Phone: (+44 1223 3) 32045
Profile
David Cardwell is Professor of Superconducting Engineering in the Department of Engineering, where he is Deputy Head of Department with responsibility for Graduate Studies. Professor Cardwell leads 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 Chair of the Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group, 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 260 technical papers and patents. Professor Cardwell has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam since 1993, and is currently Admissions Tutor for Sciences and 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.
Teaching
David teaches on Parts I and II of the Engineering Tripos, including Exposition (IA), Bicycle Design (IIA) and Electrical and Nano Materials (IIB).
Research Interests
The processing and characterisation of single grain bulk high temperature superconductors for high field engineering applications.
Selected Recent Publications
1. Freyhardt, H. C., Cardwell, D. A. and Strasik, M. (Editors), Selected Papers of the 7th International Workshop on the Processing and Applications of Superconducting (RE)BCO Large Grain Materials (PASREG), Washington DC, USA, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 23, 2010.
2. Laurent, P., Fagnard, J. F., Hari Babu, N., Vanderhayden, B., Cardwell, D. A. and Vanderbemden, P., Self Heating of Bulk High Temperature Superconductors of Finite Height Subjected to a Large Alternating Magnetic, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 23, 124004, 2010.
3. Headings, N. S., Hayden, S. M., Kulda, J., Hari Babu, N. and Cardwell, D. A., The Spin Anisotropy of the Magnetic Excitations in the Normal and Superconducting States of Optimally Doped YBa2Cu3O6.9 studied by polarized neutron spectroscopy, submitted to Phys. Rev. B, 2010.
4. Hari Babu, N., Shi, Y.-H., Pathak, S. K., Dennis, A. R. and Cardwell, D. A., Developments in the Processing of Bulk (RE)BCO Superconductors, Physica C., 471, 169, 2011.
5. Shi, Y.-H., Dennis, A. R., Hengstberger, F., Hari Babu, N., Cardwell, D. A. and Strasik, M., A Simple Method for Recycling GdBCO-Ag Single Grain Bulk Superconductors, Supercond. Sci. Technol., 24, 075010, 2011.
6. Shi, Y.-H., Dennis, A. R. and Cardwell, D. A., Seeded Microstructure and Superconducting Properties of Single Grains of Y-Ba-Cu-O Containing Y-2411(M) and Y2O3, , IEEE Transac. Appl. Supercond., 21(2), 1576, 2011.
7. Hari Babu, N., Shi, Y.-H., Dennis, A. R., Pathak, S. K. and Cardwell, D. A., Seeded Infiltration and Growth of YBCO Nano-composites, IEEE Transac. Appl. Supercond., 21(3), 2698, 2011.