champion data

Many of the advances one reads about are based on champion data, i.e., fibres and/or data produced in the laboratory which often represents the extreme in performance capability.

1980, The Engineers' Digest, volume 41

It is well known among tribologists that the head-to-disk spacing, or the flying height of the head, in hard-disk drives for computers has been providing champion data of thin hydrodynamic films.

2000, Y. Kimura et al., “Thinning films and design of lubricated components: a state-of-the-art report from Japan”, in Thinning Films and Tribological Interfaces: Proceedings of the 26th Leeds-Lyon Symposium, page 376

This result is not our champion data and every technician can obtain it by exchanging the Pb particles for Er₃Ni powders in the 2nd stage regenerator of the common GM refrigerator.

2012, T. Hashimoto et al., “Recent Progress on Rare Earth Magnetic Regenerator Materials”, in Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, volume 37, page 861

For this reason, the stably realized conductivity is 1/5–1/10 times the champion data shown in table.

2012, David Michael Rowe, Modules, Systems, and Applications in Thermoelectrics