High-temperature superconductors (HTS) have been featured at MRS Meetings since 1986. Within this time frame, we have been fortunate to witness both the maturation of HTS materials into prototype, practical devices, and continuing discoveries of new superconducting and related oxide materials. Highly specialized disciplines of innovative materials research and product development have formed due to two important factors: (1) the complexity and fundamental nature of the physical and chemical interactions, and (2) societal demands for energy-efficient solutions to electric power transmission, grid reliability, and power quality. Basic research on HTS and related materials continues to attract great interest from the R&D community. The superconductor is but one of several materials involved in a practical superconducting composite. Issues concerning functionally layered composites, functionality transfer, interfacial reactions, metal-oxide interfaces, complex oxide epitaxy, crystal chemistry, defect characterization, nanostructured HTS materials, flux pinning, diffusion barriers, diffusion mechanisms, and textured templates are topical areas that will be addressed at this meeting.
Session Topics
Contributions are solicited in, but not limited to:
- Complex oxide heteroepitaxy / oxide epitaxy on metal surfaces
- Multifunctional oxide layers in HTS composites for coated conductor and microelectronic applications
- Texture development and functionality transfer in layered composites
- Crystal chemistry of HTS and related oxides
- Defect, cation disorder, and superstructures in complex oxides
- Multiscale characterization of HTS materials and composites
- Boride superconductors: bulk and film synthesis and properties
- Electrical and superconducting properties of HTS materials
- Connectivity and flux pinning in composite conductors
- Viable methods for the production of practical HTS composites
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Invited Speakers
Invited speakers include: Alexei Abrikosov , Nobel Laureate (Argonne National Lab), Naoyuki Amemiya (Yokohama National Univ., Japan), Paul Arendt (Los Alamos National Lab), Mark Blamire (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Nigel Browning (Univ. of California-Davis), Claudia Cantoni (Oak Ridge National Lab), Paul Chu (Univ. of Houston), Leonardo Civale (Los Alamos National Lab), S.X. Dou (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia), Chang-Beom Eom (Univ. of Wisconsin), Jan Evetts (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Stephen Foltyn (Los Alamos National Lab), Gianno Grasso (Univ. of Genoa, Italy), Yasuhiro Iijima (Fujikura, Japan), Jim Jorgensen (Argonne National Lab), Takanobu Kisu (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Fred Lange (Univ. of California-Santa Barbara), Vic Maroni (Argonne National Lab), Parans Paranthaman (Oak Ridge National Lab), Dean Peterson (Los Alamos National Lab), Teresa Puig (Barcelona, Spain), and Yuh Shiohara (SRL-ISTEC). |
Symposium Organizers
Terry Holesinger
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS G755, Los Alamos, NM 87545
Tel 505-667-2911
Fax 505-665-3164
holesinger@lanl.gov |
Teruo Izumi
SRL-ISTEC, 1-10-13, Shinonome, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0062, Japan
Tel 81-3-3536-5711
Fax 81-3-3536-5717
izumi@istec.or.jp |
Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll
University of Cambridge, Dept. of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
Tel 44-1223-334-468
Fax 44-1223-334-567
jld35@hermes.cam.ac.uk |
Dean Miller
Argonne National Laboratory, Bldg. 223, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439-4108
Tel 630-252-4108
Fax 630-252-6389
miller@anl.gov |
Winnie Wong-Ng
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Bldg. 223, Rm. A205, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Tel: 301-975-5791
Fax: 301-975-5334
winnie.wong-ng@nist.gov |
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