News and Press Releases

Press Releases

Advanced Magnet Lab Teams with NASA to Develop Superconducting Magnets for Space Radiation Protection

Palm Bay, Florida (November 16, 2011)—Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (AML) announced today that the Company is teaming with NASA Johnson Space Center on a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) grant for advancement of space radiation shielding. Radiation exposure caused by solar wind and cosmic ray background is a major issue for human space exploration missions. The goal of the research is the development of a lightweight superconducting magnetic shielding system as a means to protect crew from space radiation exposure on long duration missions beyond low Earth orbit. The advanced concepts selected for study under NIAC were chosen based on their potential to transform our future space missions, enable new capabilities or significantly alter current approaches to launching, building and operating space systems.

Advanced Magnet Lab Awarded U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Develop Next Generation Wind Turbines

September 23, 2011 – Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (AML) announced today that the Company is among six awardees of a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the advancement of next generation wind turbine technology. AML was selected based on a proprietary innovative turbine generator which enables the development of the first fully superconducting direct-drive generator for large offshore wind turbines. These generators are up to 75% lighter, 50% smaller, more efficient and more reliable than systems in use today. This award represents an initial step in the fulfillment of AML’s Clean Energy Plan for deployment of clean, scalable and efficient generators and motors for large-scale energy systems. Successful development and deployment of this new technology will help position the United States as a global leader in wind energy technologies, reduce the cost of wind energy, and support thousands of new manufacturing, construction and planning jobs in the renewable energy market.

AML Awarded NASA Contract For Superconducting Machine Modeling

June 13, 2011 – The Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (AML) has been awarded a three-year research contract from NASA for developing an experimentally validated, high fidelity, physics-based sizing model for high power superconducting machines, such as electrical generators and turbo-electric propulsion fans. The project addresses NASA’s objectives for developing new aircraft technologies which have significant improvements in propulsion efficiency, reliability, emissions and noise. AML’s effort will include developing very versatile design/synthesis software tools. These tools will be experimentally validated by laboratory tests, allowing NASA to size and model superconducting machines and perform aircraft design based on hybrid-electric propulsion.

Advanced Magnet Lab Becomes COMSOL Certified Consultant

March 4, 2011 – COMSOL, Inc., developer of the industry-leading COMSOL Multiphysics modeling and simulation environment for scientists and engineers, announces that Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc., (AML) has become a COMSOL Certified Consultant. AML provides technology and expert services for the design and manufacture of advanced coils, magnets, and magnet systems for a broad variety of applications in such markets as energy, aerospace and defense, medical, and advanced research. AML offers its clients unique numerical analysis capabilities including multiphysics FEA, multi-objective optimization, and dynamic analysis.

Forbes Magazine Names Palm Bay 11th Most Innovative City in America

June 10, 2010 – When it comes to innovative companies and people Palm Bay is voted among the best in the country for cities with the knowledge and capabilities to invent new technologies that create new jobs. Forbes Magazine put Palm Bay at number 11 in its top 20 list of innovative cities, outranking larger cities like Minneapolis, MN, Rochester, NY, Denver CO, and Tucson AZ. The ranking is based on the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States and used data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office along with information from the National Venture Capital Association to determine the ratios of high-tech, science and “creative” jobs. The categories included the number of technical and science jobs, creative jobs, patents per capita and venture investment per capita. Palm Bay ranked 20th for tech science jobs, 13th for creative jobs, 14th patents per capita and 38th in venture investment per capita.

Double-Helix™ Superconducting Magnet Test Successfully Completed

August 13, 2009 – Advanced Magnet Lab (AML) completed another successful test of a Superconducting Magnet, built using AML’s Double-Helix™ (DH) Magnet Technology. DH is a breakthrough discovery in electro-magnet design and packaging which among others includes: specialized software for CAD driven coil design, modeling & analysis, innovative methods for creating pure magnetic fields in a wide range of configurations with no systematic errors and manufacturing technology for reliable and automated production of high performance magnets.

Angels and Demons … and Magnets?

June 30, 2009 – The recent box office hit ‘Angels and Demons’, starring Tom Hanks, describes a plot to blow up the Vatican. In the story, a small quantity of antimatter, stolen from a large research laboratory, has the explosive power of a nuclear weapon. While the story invented by the best seller author Dan Brown is pure science fiction, a high tech company, Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (AML), in Palm Bay Florida is working on technology that enables research on the exotic substance, antimatter, which might one day help making Star Trek reality.

Revolutionary Direct Double-Helix™ Technology

February 27, 2008 – The Advanced Magnet Lab (AML), Melbourne, Florida announces their latest breakthrough in magnet technology called Direct Double-Helix™. This technology enables the design and manufacturing of magnet coils “directly” without conventional conductor and winding processes. Additionally, coil configurations can be optimized vary conductor characteristics such as significantly reducing coil resistance/heat load along the 3D coil path – while still achieving perfect fields of most any multipole order.

DOE Grant to further develop Enabling Magnet Technology

July 13, 2007 – The Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. (AML), Melbourne Florida has been awarded a Phase II SBIR grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of “Bent Dipole” superconducting accelerator magnets based on AML’s patented Double-Helix™ (DH) technology. Magnets based on this breakthrough technology show significantly improved field quality, robustness, reliability, radiation resistance, and even reduced costs.