The International Cryogenic Materials Conference Board has established the ICMC Best Paper Award to recognize the best papers published in the Advances in Cryogenic Engineering – Materials.

The ICMC Best Paper Award will be presented prior to the morning plenary session on Monday, July 10, 2017.

The following has been selected as best ICMC paper presented at the 2015 Conference in Tucson, Arizona, published in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 102, 2015:

Best Superconducting Materials:

“Temperature dependence of critical current and transport current losses of 4 mm YBCO coated conductors manufactured using nonmagnetic substrate”
paper: 012033
J Kvitkovic, R Hatwar, S V Pamidi, S Fleshler, C Thieme