Nanostructured Superconductors

Wolfgang Lang

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-90800-9.00014-7

Nanostructured Superconductors

Wolfgang Lang (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

The relevant length scales for superconductivity are of the order of nanometers. By confining the superconducting condensate to such dimensions, many physical properties change substantially, and novel phenomena emerge, which are absent in the pristine material. We discuss various methods of creating artificial nanostructures by top-down approaches in metallic and copper-oxide superconductors and their applications. Such nanostructures can be used to control magnetic flux quanta in superconductors, anchoring them to engineered defects to avoid dissipation, guiding their motion, or building artificial
flux-quanta arrangements. Nanopatterned superconductors are essential for creating model systems for basic research and enable building almost dissipationless and ultrafast electronic devices and highly sensitive sensors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics (2nd Ed.)
Editors	Tapash Chakraborty
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Elsevier Academic Press
Pages	368–380
Number of pages	13
Volume	3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-323-91408-6
ISBN (Print)	978-0-323-90800-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90800-9.00014-7
Publication status	Published - 10 Oct 2023

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103033 Superconductivity
210006 Nanotechnology

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FLUXPIN: Fluxon manipulation by nanoscale artificial pinning lattices in cuprate superconductors
Lang, W., Pedarnig, J. D., Koelle, D., Misko, V. R. & Suderow, H.
1/10/20 → 30/09/24
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