Symposium EP13-Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications

Superconducting materials are inherently complex materials systems with significant potential for "tailoring" or “design” for specific applications. This symposium will explore the development and application of superconducting materials in both well established and emerging applications, such as quantum computing, power transmission, MRI, detectors and rotating machinery. Contributions are encouraged across all superconducting materials; including low-T_c superconductors, A15 materials, cuprate superconductors, MgB₂, NbN and Iron Based Superconductors. Emphasis will be placed on the challenges facing the development of both fundamental materials and applications as well as those specifically involved in facilitating a transition from basic science and discovery to applications.

• Theoretical understanding of superconducting mechanisms
• Recent advances in Bi-based tapes and round wires
• Second-generation REBCO wires: processing and applications
• Thermodynamics, kinetics and growth mechanisms
• Advanced Josephson junction fabrication for quantum computing
• Models elucidating pathways for discovery of new superconductors
• Energy, transportation, high-field magnet, large-scale systems and novel devices and applications and related technologies
• Iron-based and MgB₂ superconductors and potential applications
• New materials and strategies for fabricating Josephson junctions and integration of Josephson junctions
• Novel synthesis routes with particular attention to controllability of resultant superconducting properties
• Flux pinning and critical current including: intrinsic behavior within grains, crystals, and oriented films; reduction of anisotropy; extrinsic factors such as intergranular transport blockage and weak links; and irradiation effects
• Novel strategies for tailoring superconducting properties for specific applications or classes of applications
• The link between synthesis and tuning nanostructures for different application regimes
• A15 materials and conductors for fusion and accelerator magnets
• Synthesis and nanostructure, including (a) de-construction of practical superconductors to solve problems; (b) basic requirements for potential applications made from emerging materials, for example, topological superconductors

• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _0 (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _1 (National Institute of Science and Technology, USA)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _2 (University of Twente, Netherlands)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _3 (SUNY-Buffalo, USA)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _4 (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _5 (Nagoya University, Japan)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _6 (University of Munich, Germany)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _7 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _8 (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _9 (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _10 (Max Planck Institute - CPfS, Germany)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _11 (SuNAM, Republic of Korea)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _12 (ENEA, Italy)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _13 (Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Japan)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _14 (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _15 (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _16 (AMSC, USA)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _17 (University of Jena, Germany)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _18 (University of Houston, USA)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _19 (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• EP13_Tailoring Superconductors—Materials and Devices from Basic Science to Applications _20 (Florida State University, USA)