NEW RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES IN SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IV

This report surveys the considerable progress made over the last five years - such as the marketing of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs), cellular wireless filter systems, and high current l eads - and assesses needs and opportunities in the areas of fundamenta l science, materials development, thin film and device applications, a nd wire and bulk applications. It examines the challenges facing high- temperature superconductivity: from the need to understand the mechani sm of high-temperature superconductivity and the unusual ''normal'' st ate to the need for new instrumentation for material characterization. Advances in thin film and bulk materials are reviewed, and obstacles impeding the commercialization of HTS materials are examined.