FN - 7th International Conference
Science and Engineering of Novel Superconductors
Co-Chairs:
Christos PANAGOPOULOS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Davor PAVUNA, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Switzerland (Programme Chair)
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Members:
Henri ALLOUL, Université Paris Sud, France
Yoichi ANDO, Osaka University, ISIR, Japan
Evgeny V. ANTIPOV, Moscow State University, Russia
Elisa BAGGIO-SAITOVITCH, CBPF - Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia, Brazil
Arun BANSIL, Northeastern University, USA
Mark BLAMIRE, Cambridge University, UK
Ivan BOZOVIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Alexandre I. BUZDIN, Université Bordeaux 1, France
Paolo CALVANI, Università La Sapienza Roma, Italy
Paul C.W. CHU, University of Houston, USA
Tord CLAESON, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
John CLARKE, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Guy DEUTSCHER, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Takeshi EGAMI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Ali GENCER, Ankara University, Turkey
Fedor GOMÖRY, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Renato GONNELLI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Hideo HOSONO, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshihiro IWASA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hugo KELLER, Zürich University, Switzerland
Peter B. LITTLEWOOD, The University of Chicago, USA
Victor V. MOSHCHALKOV, KU Leuven, Belgium
Masato MURAKAMI, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Yung Woo PARK, Seoul National University, Korea
Marina PUTTI, Università di Genova, Italy
Bernard RAVEAU, Lab. CRISMAT - ENSICAEN & Univ.of Caen, France
Paul SEIDEL, Friedrich-Schiller-Univesität Jena, Germany
Yuh SHIOHARA, SRL-ISTEC, Japan
Frank STEGLICH, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
Denis SUNKO, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jeff TALLON, Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand
Yoshinori TOKURA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Yasutomo J. UEMURA, Columbia University, USA
Dirk VAN DER MAREL, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Andrei VARLAMOV, INFM and University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Harald W. WEBER, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Lu YU, Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, China
Christos PANAGOPOULOS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Davor PAVUNA, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Switzerland (Programme Chair)
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Members:
Henri ALLOUL, Université Paris Sud, France
Yoichi ANDO, Osaka University, ISIR, Japan
Evgeny V. ANTIPOV, Moscow State University, Russia
Elisa BAGGIO-SAITOVITCH, CBPF - Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia, Brazil
Arun BANSIL, Northeastern University, USA
Mark BLAMIRE, Cambridge University, UK
Ivan BOZOVIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Alexandre I. BUZDIN, Université Bordeaux 1, France
Paolo CALVANI, Università La Sapienza Roma, Italy
Paul C.W. CHU, University of Houston, USA
Tord CLAESON, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
John CLARKE, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Guy DEUTSCHER, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Takeshi EGAMI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Ali GENCER, Ankara University, Turkey
Fedor GOMÖRY, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Renato GONNELLI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Hideo HOSONO, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshihiro IWASA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hugo KELLER, Zürich University, Switzerland
Peter B. LITTLEWOOD, The University of Chicago, USA
Victor V. MOSHCHALKOV, KU Leuven, Belgium
Masato MURAKAMI, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Yung Woo PARK, Seoul National University, Korea
Marina PUTTI, Università di Genova, Italy
Bernard RAVEAU, Lab. CRISMAT - ENSICAEN & Univ.of Caen, France
Paul SEIDEL, Friedrich-Schiller-Univesität Jena, Germany
Yuh SHIOHARA, SRL-ISTEC, Japan
Frank STEGLICH, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
Denis SUNKO, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jeff TALLON, Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand
Yoshinori TOKURA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Yasutomo J. UEMURA, Columbia University, USA
Dirk VAN DER MAREL, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Andrei VARLAMOV, INFM and University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Harald W. WEBER, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Lu YU, Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, China
Ryotaro ARITA, RIKEN, Japan
Arun BANSIL, Northeastern University, USA
Emilio BELLINGERI, SPIN-CNR, Italy
Gianluigi BOTTON, McMaster University, Canada
Annette BUSSMANN-HOLDER, Max Planck Inst.for Solid State Research, Germany
Alexandre I. BUZDIN, Université Bordeaux 1, France
Dario DAGHERO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrea DAMASCELLI, University of British Columbia, Canada
Daniele DI CASTRO, SPIN-CNR & University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Hong DING, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
Hiroshi EISAKI, AIST, Japan
Atsushi FUJIMORI, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wilfried GOLDACKER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Fedor GOMÖRY, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Hideo HOSONO / Hidenori HIRAMATSU, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshihiro IWASA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hazuki KAWANO-FURUKAWA, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Hsin LIN, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jose LORENZANA, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Lutfi OZYUZER, Izmir IT, Turkey
Shuheng PAN, University of Houston, USA
Christos PANAGOPOULOS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Enric PARDO, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Yung Woo PARK, Seoul National University, Korea
Jason ROBINSON, University of Cambridge, UK
Takasada SHIBAUCHI, Kyoto University, Japan
Denis SUNKO, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jeff TALLON, Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Maw Kuen WU, National Dong Hwa University & Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ayako YAMAMOTO, RIKEN, Japan
Martin ZEHETMAYER, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Arun BANSIL, Northeastern University, USA
Emilio BELLINGERI, SPIN-CNR, Italy
Gianluigi BOTTON, McMaster University, Canada
Annette BUSSMANN-HOLDER, Max Planck Inst.for Solid State Research, Germany
Alexandre I. BUZDIN, Université Bordeaux 1, France
Dario DAGHERO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrea DAMASCELLI, University of British Columbia, Canada
Daniele DI CASTRO, SPIN-CNR & University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Hong DING, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
Hiroshi EISAKI, AIST, Japan
Atsushi FUJIMORI, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wilfried GOLDACKER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Fedor GOMÖRY, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Hideo HOSONO / Hidenori HIRAMATSU, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshihiro IWASA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hazuki KAWANO-FURUKAWA, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Hsin LIN, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jose LORENZANA, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Lutfi OZYUZER, Izmir IT, Turkey
Shuheng PAN, University of Houston, USA
Christos PANAGOPOULOS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Enric PARDO, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovakia
Yung Woo PARK, Seoul National University, Korea
Jason ROBINSON, University of Cambridge, UK
Takasada SHIBAUCHI, Kyoto University, Japan
Denis SUNKO, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jeff TALLON, Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Maw Kuen WU, National Dong Hwa University & Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ayako YAMAMOTO, RIKEN, Japan
Martin ZEHETMAYER, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Superconductivity is a complex and fascinating macroscopic quantum phenomenon with a variety of useful applications, and it is of major interest both for its fundamental aspects as well for its prospective impact on future technology. Since the discovery of superconductivity in the cuprates and huge outburst of research activity that it generated, a key challenge remained the understanding of mechanisms of unconventional superconductivity, still under debate in spite of many relevant advances in research and materials development.
Meanwhile many new superconductors have emerged, including ruthenates, cobaltates, borides, borocarbides, doped fullerenes and intercalated graphite, organic and heavy-fermion superconductors, accompanied by in-depth characterization of their physical properties by means of a variety of experimental approaches and by successful applications in wires, tapes, processing in electronics and in novel nano-structured technologies.
In recent years novel families of unconventional superconductors have been discovered and have stimulated strong scientific interest: the Fe-based pnictides REFeAsO, MFe2As2, Fe(SeTe), where high-Tc superconductivity is occurring without the Cu ions (characteristic element in cuprates) and in the presence of Fe ions, suggesting in turn that magnetic interactions are the essential ingredients for the underlaying microscopic mechanism. Furthermore, superconductivity in topological insulators related and non-standard quantum fluids have recently also attracted some attention.
This Conference follows those on the analogous topics in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 organized in the frame of CIMTEC. On one side it will highlight the progresses achieved along the last years in the various issues of fundamental and technological character of the already known superconducting materials. On another side, the Conference will be focused on the recently discovered materials, their characterization, synthesis and processing and the prospective applications. Following the mission of the previous conferences of this type, the focus will be on novel aspects, issues and systems, but attention will be paid as well to all superconducting-related topics, including fundamental aspects of theory, advances in synthesis, functionalization and processing and the latest progresses in the areas of the devices at small scale and large scale ranges.
Meanwhile many new superconductors have emerged, including ruthenates, cobaltates, borides, borocarbides, doped fullerenes and intercalated graphite, organic and heavy-fermion superconductors, accompanied by in-depth characterization of their physical properties by means of a variety of experimental approaches and by successful applications in wires, tapes, processing in electronics and in novel nano-structured technologies.
In recent years novel families of unconventional superconductors have been discovered and have stimulated strong scientific interest: the Fe-based pnictides REFeAsO, MFe2As2, Fe(SeTe), where high-Tc superconductivity is occurring without the Cu ions (characteristic element in cuprates) and in the presence of Fe ions, suggesting in turn that magnetic interactions are the essential ingredients for the underlaying microscopic mechanism. Furthermore, superconductivity in topological insulators related and non-standard quantum fluids have recently also attracted some attention.
This Conference follows those on the analogous topics in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 organized in the frame of CIMTEC. On one side it will highlight the progresses achieved along the last years in the various issues of fundamental and technological character of the already known superconducting materials. On another side, the Conference will be focused on the recently discovered materials, their characterization, synthesis and processing and the prospective applications. Following the mission of the previous conferences of this type, the focus will be on novel aspects, issues and systems, but attention will be paid as well to all superconducting-related topics, including fundamental aspects of theory, advances in synthesis, functionalization and processing and the latest progresses in the areas of the devices at small scale and large scale ranges.
Session Topics
FN-1 Materials, structure, physical chemistry and general properties
- Oxides (cuprates, insulating cuprates, cobaltates, ruthenates and other oxides)
- Borides and borocarbides (MgB2 and other borides)
- Carbon-based superconductors (fulleride, nanotubes, organic superconductors, intercaled graphite)
- Heavy-fermions superconductors and quantum-critical materials
- Superconducting topological insulators
- Interface superconductivity
- New phases and metastable superconducting high-Tc materials
FN-2 New superconductors of the pnictides and related families
- Structural properties (XRD, neutron scattering, electron diffraction, EXAFS, XANES, STM, SEM, TEM)
- Material processing (powder synthesis, single crystal and film growth)
- Order parameters, pseudo-gap, tunnelling, point-contact Andreev-reflection and related experiments
- Phase competitions, quantum critical points and other mechanisms for superconductivity
- Multiband character and related effects
- Superconducting fluctuations and related effects
FN-3 Properties of superconductors (of any type)
- Spectroscopic techniques (optical spectroscopy, IR, Microwave, Raman, NMR, ESR, µSR,inelastic neutron scattering, Mossabuer, AFM, XAS, acoustic spectroscopy)
- Photoemission and ARPES
- SQUID and tunneling spectroscopies
- Thermal, magnetic and electrical properties
- Electric field effect, structures and devices
FN-4 Theory and mechanisms ( for normal and superconducting states)
- Correlation effects, spin liquids and quantum criticality
- Phonons, spin excitations and strong coupling
- Inhomogeneous order parameters
- Stripes, phases separation and granularity effects
- Pressure induced superconductivity
- CDW, SDW and superconductivity competition; coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity
- Unconvential superconductors: phenomenology and theory
- Vortex dynamics
- Understanding and control of flux pinning
- Electromagnetic characterization of superconductors over wide parameters ranges
- Vortex-defect interactions, defect structures, vortex penetration
- Complex vortex phases and related phenomena
- Films, multilayer, wires, tapes and coated conductors
- Heterostructures and interface nanoengineering
- Josephson junctions and JJ arrays
- Nanostructured superconductors
- Proximity and interface effects, hybrid structures
FN-7 Applications
- Cables, transformers, motors and generators, current limiters and magnets
- Magnetic energy storage, high field magnets and accelerator technology
- MRI and MEG novel devices
- New prospective applications
- Microwave filters and passive devices
- Josephson and digital devices
- Novel SQUID systems, hybrid electronic devices
- Superconducting qubits
- Single photon nanosized detectors