“Hello everyone! My name is Marijn van de Putte and I am a student from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. After completing my Bachelor in Advanced Technology I am now following a Master in Nanotechnology. Here at ICMAB I am doing an internship for this master program and together with Dr. Narcis Mestres I will be doing research into barium manganese nanowires. I am looking forward to work here and enjoy my time here to the fullest!”
Sebastiaan de Vrieze, master student of Ghent University. From february to june 2016 he has been doing a short stay in “Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures” group at ICMAB (in collaboration with UAB) untitled “Synthesis , deposition and characterization of ex-situ nanocomposite YBCO layers containing ZrO2 and HfO2 Nanoparticles” under the supervision of Dr. Susagna Ricart.
Alejandro Fernández Rodríguez, student of the master “Advanced nanoscience and nanotechnology” at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). From January to July 2016 he had been doing his master thesis in “Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures” group at ICMAB. The title is “Tuning the electronic structure in high temperature superconducting films” and it was directed by Dr. Anna Palau.
Juan Carlos Martin Romano, from Madrid, He is a chemist graduated as of last year. He is currently doing the UAB Master on Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which has given me the opportunity to get to know Barcelona. He has been doing his master thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mariona Coll in the group of Superconducting Materials. The theme is the engineering of perovskite materials to be applied in the field of photovoltaic energy.
Isabel García Pon
cet , 4th-year-student of Nanocsience and Nanotechnology degree at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has been doing her final degree thesis thesis in the group of Supercondu cting Materials and Nanostructure at Large Scale at ICMAB under the supervision of Dr. Susagna Ricart concerning the synthesis and characterization of YBCO superconductor layers.
Pamela Ma
chado is in her last year of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology degree in the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been doing her final degree thesis in the group of Superconducting Materials and Nanostructure at Large Scale under the supervision of Dr. Mariona Coll. She worked with a perovskite ferroelectric material and studied its electrical and optical properties to apply it to photovoltaic devices.
Orjan Artursson, he comes from Sweden and he is Project Engineer. He will be in charge of the installation of the new lab of the group in MATGAS building.
Roger Guzman, after a first postdoc in Zaragoza he comes back to the group to work as a postdoc in STEM and EELS characterization of YBCO nanocomposites samples.
Flavio Pino, he comes from Italy and he is joining us as a postdoc to work on the inkjet deposition and UV curing of superconducting thick films.
Juri Banchewsky, he comes from Germany and he is starting his PhD in the group concerning Vortex pinning studies in YBCO nanocomposites samples.
Prof. Teresa Puig (Institute of Materials Science in Barcelona – ICMAB, part of the Spanish National Research Council) is participating in NanoSC, a COST Action trying to build a better understanding of superconductivity, leading to new commercial devices and low cost materials. Her team is also leading EUROTAPES, a EU-funded project developing low cost high-temperature superconductors and enabling the vital technology transfer to European industry.
FULL ARTICLE
A. Queraltó, A. Pérez del Pino, M. de la Mata, J. Arbiol, M. Tristany, A. Gómez, X. Obradors and T. Puig.
Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 262903 (2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4923376
Highly crystalline epitaxial Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 (BST) thin-films are grown on (001)-oriented LaNiO3-buffered LaAlO3 substrates by pulsed laser irradiation of solution derived barium-zirconium-titanium precursor layers using a UV Nd:YAG laser source at atmospheric conditions. Thestructural analyses of the obtained films, studied by X-ray diffractometry and transmission electron microscopy, demonstrate that laser processing allows the growth of tens of nm-thick BST epitaxialfilms with crystalline structure similar to that of films obtained through conventional thermal annealing methods. However, the fast pulsed nature of the laser employed leads tocrystallization kinetic evolution orders of magnitude faster than in thermal treatments. The combination of specific photothermal and photochemical mechanisms is the main responsible for the ultrafast epitaxial laser-induced crystallization. Piezoresponse microscopy measurements demonstrate equivalent ferroelectric behavior in laser and thermally annealedfilms, being the piezoelectric constant ∼25 pm V−1.
“Este año, Teresa Puig es la única investigadora española que ha conseguido una Advanced Grant del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC)”
Otros 12 colegas hombres han logrado también esta prestigiosa financiación de la Unión Europea, destinada a directores de investigación. Estas y otras ayudas del ERC son muy competitivas y suelen ser un referente de quiénes son los investigadores y los centros más competitivos de un país.”
http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/07/06/ciencia/1436173293_026811.html?ref=rss&format=simple&link=guid
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