Author: Mar Tristany

An important representation of SUMAN group assisted to the 13^th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, EUCAS 2017, held in the International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG), hosted by CERN in collaboration with the University of Geneva and EPFL-SPC, and presented the work of the group.

Dr. Anna Palau give an invited entitled ” European progress toward Nanostructure engineering in coated conductors” at 4MO3 – Coated Conductor: Processing and Properties session.

Dr. Xavier Granados an oral communication entitled “Superconducting Medium Speed Synchronous Electrical Generator for 2MW Class Wind Mills” at 2LO2 – Rotating Machines and other Large Size Applications session.

Dr. Cornelia Pop an oral communication entitled ” Chemical solution deposition growth of low fluorine thick coated conductors of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ and YBa₂Cu₃O₇ nanocomposites with preformed BZO nanoparticles” at 4MO3 – Coated Conductor: Processing and Properties session.

The PhD student Laia Soler an oral communication entitled “Mechanisms of novel transient liquid assisted growth for ultrafast production of YBa₂Cu₃O7-x thin films” at 3MO3 – Cuprate Thin films session.

The PhD student Bernat Mundet an oral communication entitled “The challenging pinning landscape of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ thin films” at 1MO1 – Critical Current and Flux Pinning session.

And the group has also presnted the following posters:

• “ReBCO coated conductors for the future circular hadron collider beam screen” by Dr. Joffre Gutierrez
• “Physical Properties of Nanostructured, Liquid Assisted Grown, Epitaxial YBa₂Cu₃O₇-x Superconducting Films” by the PhD student Juri Banchewski
• “YBa₂Cu₃O₇-x nanocomposite films by CSD-ultrafast Transient Liquid Assisted Growth” by the PhD student Júlia Jareño
• “Thick YBa₂C₃O₇-x layers with ink jet printing single deposition” by the PhD student Bohores Villarejo
• “Preparation of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ – BaMO (M=Zr, Hf) superconductor nanocomposite using colloidal solution with preformed nanoparticles” by the PhD student Ziliang Li
• “Role of Oxygen exchange kinetics in the engineering of carrier concentration of YBa₂Cu₃O₇-δ films” by the PhD student Alex Stangl
• “High growth rate of YBCO films by Transient Liquid Assisted Growth by oxygen partial pressure control” and “Eutectic temperature determination of the BaO-CuO-O system in
  bulk and in films” by the PhD student Silvia Rasi

Other collaborators presented results obtained in collaboration with the group:

• “Dragging hysteresis forces in a linear displacer with Coated Conductor Stacks” poster by Prof. José López
• “Magnetization of rectangular 2G HTS stacks and dragging forces developed inside a multipolar magnetic channel: trapped field, current distribution and forces” poster by Prof. Miquel Carrera

We want to thank to all SUMAN participants for the successful orals and posters! Congratulations, good job!

Our PhD student, Alexander Stangl, has participated in the CERN Superconductivity Hackathon 2017 organized by FCC hh ee he from 22th to 24th September in Geneve (Switzerland). The primary target of the Hackathon is to work on solutions based on superconductor technology for three particularly interesting and promising future application fields.

Hey! My name is Pedro and I’m from Brazil. After finishing my Master in electrical engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro I joined ICMAB’s Superconducting Materials and Nanostruture at Large Scale department as a PhD student. My research is focus on implementing superconducting wires in electrical equipment for the power grid system. I shall be working in the FASTGRID project seeking to enhance 2G HTS tape’s performance for higher electrical fields.

Hi guys!

My name is Artur and I am a new PhD student in the SUMAN group. Studying at the RWTH Aachen University, I developed expertise on Phase-Change materials performing PES, XRD, and low temperature transport measurements. Here at ICMAB, I am going to participate in promoting the electrical characterization and optimization of HTS coatings for the FCC at CERN. Looking forward to get all you guys to know! You can find me in office 1.19.

Our PhD student, Alejandro Fernandez, has attended to the 10th International Conference on Vortex Matter in Nanostructured Superconductors (VORTEX X) in Rhodes (Greece) from 9th to 14th of September. He had the oportunity to see many interesting oral presentations during these days and he also presented a poster (entitled: Tuning of the electronic structure in high Temperature Superconducting films at nanometric scale) gathering part of his research in the group. Of course, he could enjoy some free time relaxing in the beach or some night shows in the hotel. He hopes that some of you can join it in the following years.

During the last 5-8^th of September it was celebrated the last Microscopy at the Fronters of Science (MFS 2017) at the historical paraninfo building located in Zaragoza. Our phD student Bernat Mundet made an oral contribution entitled “Probing oxygen vacancies and their associated distortions in real space in YBa2Cu3O7” with the following co-autors: B. Mundet, J. Gazquez, R. Guzman, R. Mishra, E. Bartolomé, M. Coll, A. Palau1, S. M. Valvidares, P. Gargiani, E. Pellegrin, J. Herrero-Martin, T. Puig, X. Obradors.

In the following picture it can be seen our student presenting their results.

The gala dinner was held at the Aura restaurant which has nice views through the Ebro river and the Pilar cathedral as it can be seen in the next picture:

Our PhD Student Júlia Jareño is visiting Prof. Shimoyama Laboratory in Aoyama Gakuin University, in Japan. Through their expertise in thin film growth, the project is focused on studying the growth mechanism of Ba2342 as a buffer layer for YBCO films. Our student has also had the oportunity to visit the Asahi substation from Tokyo power where a BSSCO cable is on operation.

We are very happy to announce that our researcher Mariona Coll has been awarded with one of the Research Awards L’Oréal-Unesco “For Women in Science” in the 2017 Call for her project “Nanochemistry: New materials for the efficient conversion of solar energy”.

After obtaining her PhD at ICMAB on 2007, Mariona did her postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and at University of Maryland (USA). She came back at ICMAB in 2010, and obtained the Ramon y Cajal Researcher position in 2014. Her research interests are focused on novel materials for energy applications, such as superconducting materials or materials for photovoltaics. 

The Research Award “For Women in Science”, of 15,000 €, will be devoted to support and promote the project developed at ICMAB by Mariona Coll during the following year. The awards ceremony will take place in Madrid on November 22, 2017.

The Jury of this XII Edition was composed by the following scientists:

• Pedro Miguel Echenique, Professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), President of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and Prince of Asturias Award on Scientific Research on 1998
• Avelino Corma, Research Professor at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Valencia ITQ (CSIC / UPV), Founder of the Institute of Chemical Technology in Valencia ITQ (CSIC / UPV) and Prince of Asturias Award on Scientific Research on 2014
• Teresa Rodrigo, Professor at the University of Cantabria, Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
• Pilar López Sancho, Research Professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC)

Congratulations!