Superconductors: Materials, Microstructures and Applications
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 4203
Special Issue Editors
Interests: topological materials; superconductivity; scanning tunneling microscopy; molecular beam epitaxy
Interests: low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy & spectroscopy; molecular beam epitaxy; spin-polarized STM studies on iron-based superconductors as well as Skyrmions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Superconductors have attracted intensive research interest among the scientific community, both in fundamental understanding and intriguing applications. On one hand, the zero-resistance nature of the superconductors below the critical temperature shows great potential in realizing dissipationless electronics. On the other hand, the mechanism of the unconventional superconductivity remains a mystery, hindering the endeavor of improving the critical temperature of the superconductivity. Moreover, exotic phases and phenomena occur in the phase diagram of the unconventional superconductors, and these phases and phenomena are even less understood compared to the superconductivity itself. Despite that tremendous research efforts have been devoted to this field, and revolutionary progress has been achieved in the past few decades, there is still a lot that remained to be explored.
This special issue aims to cover the recent research development in superconducting materials and microstructures, as well as their application, in this regard, we propose the following topics:
- Theoretical prediction and experimental discovery of new superconducting materials.
- Search for high Tc superconductors.
- Unveiling the mechanism for unconventional superconductivity.
- Understanding the exotic phases and their properties in the phase diagram of unconventional superconductors.
- Superconductor microstructures.
- Superconductor-based low-consumption electronics.
Dr. Peng Deng
Dr. Huimin Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- material science
- cuprates
- Fe-based superconductors
- strong correlation
- microstructures and micro-fabrication
- low-dimensionality
- dissipationless electronics
