Synthesis, Design, Characterization of Unconventional Superconducting Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Simulation and Design".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 February 2022) | Viewed by 16985
Special Issue Editors
Interests: experimental superconductivity; microwave characterization techniques; materials engineering by ion irradiation; use of ion-beams-induced disorder to study the properties of unconventional superconductors
2. Italy Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, 10125 Torino, Italy
Interests: superconducting materials; nuclear fusion technology; radiation damage; microwave superconductivity
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Dear Colleagues,
Superconductors have fascinated researchers all over the world for the last century, leading to the quest for new material classes with increasingly interesting and peculiar physical properties, and with improved potential for applications. In recent years, extensive research efforts have been devoted to the so-called unconventional superconductors, materials characterized by at least one feature among multiband superconductivity, triplet spin state, non-phononic coupling, and coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism.
Together with the great number of studied compounds, new computational and experimental techniques have been developed and improved to allow the successful design and synthesis of materials with enhanced performances. The progress necessarily also involved characterization techniques, which became more precise and reliable to probe a wider spectrum of physical properties. Finally, simulations and theoretical modelling gave the needed framework to interpret experimental data and to predict further progress.
To resume the achievements of recent years in this field, the current Special Issue proposes to cover all aspects connected with the synthesis, design, and characterization of unconventional superconductors.
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue, welcoming full original research papers, communications, and review articles, to be submitted before 31 July 2021.
Prof. Dr. Gianluca Ghigo
Dr. Daniele Torsello
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- unconventional superconductivity
- synthesis of superconductors
- experimental superconductivity
- applied superconductivity
- techniques for the characterization of superconductors
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