Jim Thompson, professor of physics, and research assistant professor Yuri L. Zuev have won R&D Magazine’s “R&D 100 Award” in the Electrical Equipment category for their work on “Superconducting Wires by Expitaxial Growth on SSIFFS (Structural, Single-Crystal, Faceted, Fibers).” Along with their colleagues, Thompson and Zuev created and tested a kind of superconducting wire that makes electricity transfer more efficient.