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AML – Capabilities and Applications Revolutionizing industries including energy, medical and aerospace May 2017 E300617A RevB©2016 Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Enabling. Your World. Transformed. TM

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AML – Capabilities and Applications Revolutionizing industries including energy, medical and aerospace May 2017

E300617ARevB©2016AdvancedMagnetLab,Inc.Allrightsreservedworldwide.

Enabling. Your World. Transformed.TM

AML Capabilities, Experience & Products to Date

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AML Products ² Beam Optics Magnets (Superconducting &

Normal Conducting) ² Superconducting Control & Quench

Detection Systems

AML Product Developments ² 10MW+ Offshore Wind Turbine ² High Power Density Electrical Machinery –

motors and generators ² Permanent Magnets - revolutionary

permanent magnet manufacturing and applications

10MW+OffshoreWindTurbine

Design & Analysis ² CoilCAD™- AML Proprietary Software ² Quench Simulation ² Commercial Software

Technologies ² Superconducting & Normal Conducting

Magnets ² Proprietary Composites ² Conductor Stabilization ² Gaseous Helium Cryocooling ² Quench Detection Systems

Manufacturing ² Precision, highly automated and directly

coupled to CoilCAD™Software ² Proprietary Processes

Testing Capabilities ² Field Uniformity Measurement ² AC Losses in Superconductors ² Superconducting magnet control and

quench detection

Application Experience Accelerators ² Beam optics magnet - unprecedented capabilities

and performance

Energy ² Wind Energy – Large Generators ² Power Distribution - Data Centers ² Grid Stabilization - Fault Current Limiters,

Synchronous Condensers, Energy Storage

Transportation ² Electric Propulsion, Power Generation, Levitation, EM

Launch, Actuators ² Space Radiation Shielding

Oil & Gas ² Antennas, Down-Well Treatment

Medical ² Proton Therapy, Medical MRI, Navigation, Transcranial

Magnet Stimulation, Proton Therapy, Cardiovascular, Malaria

AML’s Perfect-Field™ Application Development Process

AML –Technology Platforms

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Perfect-Field™ Process

Step 1. A Theoretically “Perfect” Magnetic Field Step 2. Perfect-Field enabled with AML CoilCAD™ Software Step 3. Revolutionary Magnet Technologies Step 4. Unique Application of Advanced Materials Step 5. Innovative Manufacturing Step 6. Completed Products or Licenses

Revolutionary Electromagnet Technologies ²  Unprecedented 3D geometries, power density, field quality,

efficiency and enabling capabilities ²  Double-Helix™, Direct Double-Helix™, Stacked-Saddle™,

Transparent and Expandable Coils Permanent Magnets ²  Significantly lower cost è > 50% ²  Increased Power Density (lighter) è > 30% ²  Revolutionizes existing rotor applications and enables

other, new applications such as aero propulsion

Motors and Generators ²  Non-cryogenic machine configuration which achieves

superconducting machine power densities ²  Low weight, low cost, highest efficiency ²  Transformational for electric transportation systems ²  Enabler for hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion

AML Continuous Flux-Directed Permanent Magnets

Patent Pending

AML Stator Coils Patented

> 10 kW/kg

> 98% Efficiency

AML Innovative Machines Patent Pending

AML’s Proprietary Design Software

CoilCAD™ - 3D design and manufacturing software that allows rapid design, optimization and precision fabrication

²  Unlike conventional design software and methods, CoilCAD™ describes and optimizes the complete 3D conductor path in arbitrary winding configurations. CoilCAD™ determines all performance aspects of the coil, and generates machine code for precision and highly automated manufacturing

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Enabling Geometries ² Coil shapes to match desired field -

straight, curved, flared, elliptical

Enabling Features ² Coil windings with combined functions

such as: quadrupoles with superimposed dipoles; twisted quadrupoles

“Extrude” Space Curve ² Conductor cross section (round,

rectangle, polygon, tape, cable) ² Multi-filament representation

Performance Calculations ² Conductor - Length, weight, resistance ² Inductance (self, mutual, stored energy) ² Magnetic fields

o  Any point in space uniformly distributed points (Monte Carlo)

o  Peak field in winding o  Multipole analysis

² Lorentz forces o  Within winding pattern o  Between different patterns

² Iron calculations and analysis ² Shielding (active and passive) ² Full quench analysis ² Beam optics analysis

Visualization ² All views and cross sections of geometry ² Plots of forces and fields including an

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AML Magnet Technologies Enabling Features and Capabilities

Unprecedented Performance ² Very High Field Uniformity - Even Current Distribution ² Highly Scalable – Nano to Meters (length and diameter) ² Copper magnets with current densities Ic > 100 A/mm2 ² Zero quench training superconducting magnets ² Fast current ramp rates, High radiation hardness ² Any number of magnet poles and combined function in a single coil winding

Revolutionary Electromagnets Superconducting and normal conducting

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Competitors Conventional Magnets

AML’s Double-Helix Magnets

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AML Permanent Magnets - “Continuous Flux-Density” ² Magnets provide the optimum flux density ²  Increased Power Density (lighter) è > 30% ² Significantly lower cost è > 50%

Direct Double-Helix™ 10x Current Densities &

Enabler for New Materials

Double-Helix™ Enabling Geometries &

Combined Functions

Stacked-Saddle™ Enables Usable and Highly

Pure Fields in Coil Ends

Transparent Coils Enables High Current Densities

& Mfg. of Wind-React Superconductors

Expandable Coils Enables In-Field

Deployment of Very Large Magnets

Superconducting Based Applications Capabilities, Technologies & Experience

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Design & Analysis ² AML Proprietary CoilCAD™ ² Quench Simulation ² Commercial Software

Magnet Technologies ² Unconstrained Geometries ² Zero Quench Training ² Highest Reliability ² Highest Field Quality ² Combined Function Capabilities

Testing Capabilities ² Field Uniformity Measurement for

precision measurement of all higher-order multipoles in a magnet

² AC Loss in Superconductors ² Superconducting magnet control and

quench detection

Manufacturing & Testing ² Precision, highly automated and

directly coupled to CoilCAD™ ² Proprietary Manufacturing Processes ² Field Uniformity Measurement for

precision measurement of all higher-order multipoles in a magnet

² AC Loss in Superconductors ² Superconducting magnet control and

quench detection

Cryogenics ² Reverse Turbo Brayton

Cryocoling jointly developed with Creare, Inc.

² Gaseous cooling for applications operating in the 15K-20K range

Control Systems ² Power Supply, Quench

Detection & Protection ² Turn-Key, GUI and Fiber

Optic Communication Superconducting product applications such as superconducting electrical machinery

Materials Development ² Cryogenic composite systems

including a potable and isotropic configuration for matching CTE’s and handling high stress applications

² MgB2 Superconductor development

Design, Magnet Technologies, Materials, Manufacturing, Testing, Cryogenics, Control Systems

ExtensiveexperienceandenablingtechnologiesformthefoundaIonforproductdevelopments