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Indian Journal of Cryogenics

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Indian Cryogenics Council

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EDITORIAL

Sharma

R G

Chief Editor

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2016

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The Indian Journal of Cryogenics (IJC) publishes the proceedings of the National Symposia and papers received directly from the authors. It is a matter of great satisfaction that IJC has become a popular journal with our Cryogenics/Applied Superconductivity community. This issue has been delayed slightly because of our involvement in the ICEC/ICMC Conference but there is no backlog. It is a matter of pride for all of us that the conference went wonderfully well albeit, with the cooperation of the entire Cryogenic Community in the country. We would like to take this opportunity to complement all our authors and the members of the Editorial Advisory Board for their help and cooperation. I thank Dr. RK Bhandari, Dr. TS Datta and Dr. Soumen Kar who were always available for consultation and help which enabled us to bring out the Vol. 41 issue of the IJC. Ms. Tania Gupta worked hard in contacting reviewers and authors to have the final version of the manuscripts.

This issue of IJC contains 28 papers in all out of a total of 70 papers submitted and presented at the ‘25^th National Symposium on Cryogenics’ (NSC-25) at the university of Hyderabad during 8–10 December, 2014. The remaining papers will appear in Vol. 42. All the papers appearing in Vol. 41 have been reviewed by our experts on our panel of referees in India and abroad.

You will pleasantly find that the present issue begins with an invited review article written by Prof. Y.C. Saxena who initiated and led a large research team to successfully build India's first superconducting tokamak, SST-1 at the Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad. This article titled “Tokamak: A Device for Nuclear Fusion” describes all aspects of a fusion device starting from the fusion reaction, tokamak magnetic confinement, plasma heating, plasma shaping, different types of superconducting and normal magnet coils, and finally the ITER. I am sure the readers of the article will benefit a great deal and learn all the intricacies involved in building such a device. We hope to publish a similar invited review article authored by a very eminent professor/scientist in each of our future volumes.

During last few months we have been sending abstracts and now the manuscripts of a very large number of papers submitted to the ICEC/ICMC conference for publication in the proceedings to our colleagues for review. Despite being busy with their academic work all of them responded admirably well. This review work is in full swing. Simultaneously we have been burdening them by sending papers for review for IJC Vol 41. We express our gratitude to all our reviewers and thank them for their plentiful cooperation. We are open to suggestions which can add value to IJC.

R.G. Sharma

Chief Editor

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