SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND MAGNETISM AT THE NANO-SCALE

Seminar
Speaker
Prof. Guy Deutscher , Tel Aviv University
Date
12/03/2012 - 12:30Add to Calendar 2012-03-12 12:30:00 2012-03-12 12:30:00 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND MAGNETISM AT THE NANO-SCALE Research on Superconductivity at the nano-scale started well before the term "nano" became fashionable. In early contributions dark field microscopy was used and allowed for the first to measure grain sizes and grain size distributions down to the nano-scale in films of granular Aluminum that comprised many layers of grains. Recently research on granular superconductivity is receiving increased attention because of its enhancement in the vicinity to a metal-insulator transition, predicted high temperature superconductivity in small clusters and a possible competition with magnetism. These new developments will be reviewed. Physics Buld. 301 Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Physics Buld. 301
Abstract

Research on Superconductivity at the nano-scale started well before the term "nano" became fashionable. In early contributions dark field microscopy was used and allowed for the first to measure grain sizes and grain size distributions down to the nano-scale in films of granular Aluminum that comprised many layers of grains. Recently research on granular superconductivity is receiving increased attention because of its enhancement in the vicinity to a metal-insulator transition, predicted high temperature superconductivity in small clusters and a possible competition with magnetism. These new developments will be reviewed.

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