Novel high tc superconductors and multilayer structures

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: FMBI950356

Project closed

Start date 25 March 1996

End date 24 March 1997

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
United Kingdom

Objective

The growth and characterisation of high-quality, well characterised multilayer and superlattice structures of HTSC sandwiched between normal metal or insulating layers, is of particular interest. Such superlattice structures can be grown with HTc layer thickness and separation as small as single unit cells. It is then possible to investigate the properties of very thin superconducting films only a few unit cells thick, and to investigate the coupling between such layers as a function of their separation. The transfer of charge onto such thin layers can change their Tcs and their ability to trap magnetic flux. Such effects can have a profound influence on the electrical transport properties, which can be directly related to flux pining. These measurements will be extended to thin films surrounded by epitaxial ferroelectric and magnetic films, where very little information exists in the literature. We expect that these structures to have potential applications for devices.

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• engineering and technology › materials engineering › coating and films
• natural sciences › physical sciences › electromagnetism and electronics › superconductivity

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Programme(s)

• FP4-TMR - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of the training and mobility of researchers, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 0302 - Post-doctoral research training grants
• TP10 - Condensed Matter - Electronic, Magnetic & Superconduct.Properties

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships)

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Edgbaston ; B15 2TT BIRMINGHAM ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

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Spain

• EU contribution: No data
• Total cost: No data