April 7 - 11, 2025
Seattle, Washington
2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

Symposium EL07-Superconducting Materials

The symposium will broadly cover recent progress in superconducting materials from both fundamental and applications perspectives. The emphasis will be placed on several research areas: 1) recent emerging superconductors that include kagome superconductors, nickelates, twisted bilayer graphene, topological superconductors, and high-Tc hydride superconductors; 2) medium- and high-temperature superconductors that include cuprates, iron-based compounds, and MgB2; 3) applications of superconducting materials in quantum computation and sensors, and large-scale superconducting applications, such as superconducting power devices, high field magnets for accelerators, and compact fusion reactors.

The symposium contributors are encouraged to address the development of superconducting quantum limited sensors and superconducting qubit with related technologies and the discussion on performance of superconducting wires, such as homogeneity through length, cost-effectiveness, high throughput, and scalability. In this symposium, we will discuss the future perspectives of superconducting materials and create a strong network of researchers.

Topics will include:

  • Topological superconductors and unconventional superconductivity
  • Quantum materials and computing
  • Nonreciprocal superconductivity and superconducting diode effect
  • Kagome superconductors, nickelate, and other novel superconductors
  • Superconducting qubit: materials issues, gates and error corrections
  • Josephson junction technology and interface
  • Flux pinning and critical currents: intrinsic pinning behavior, anisotropy, irradiation effect
  • REBCO wires and coated conductors: processing and applications
  • Fe-based superconductors and potential applications
  • Bi-based, Nb-based, MgB2 tapes and round wires: processing and applications
  • Tuning superconductivity by high pressure, ion gating, and light
  • Superconducting devices and their implementations

Invited Speakers:

  • Ariando Ariando (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Valla Fatemi (Cornell University, USA)
  • Hong-Jun Gao (Institute of Physics, Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China)
  • Yasuhiro Iijima (Fujikura Ltd., Japan)
  • Francesco Laviano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
  • Qiang Li (Stony Brook University, The State University of New York, USA)
  • Kathryn Moler (Stanford University, USA)
  • Jagadeesh Moodera (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
  • Teruo Ono (Kyoto University, Japan)
  • Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany)
  • Ivan Schuller (University of California, San Diego, USA)
  • Javad Shabani (New York University, USA)
  • Takasada Shibauchi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Tsuyoshi Tamegai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Yayu Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
  • Peng Wei (University of California, Riverside, USA)
  • Judy Wu (University of Kansas, USA)
  • Hideki Yamamoto (NTT Group, Japan)

Symposium Organizers

Toshinori Ozaki

Kwansei Gakun University

Japan

Hang Chi
University of Ottawa
Canada

Nathalie de Leon
Princeton University
USA

Tayebeh Mousavi
King's College London
United Kingdom

Topics

crystal growth electrical properties magnetic properties qubit