Prof. Teresa Puig (Institute of Materials Science in Barcelona – ICMAB, part of the Spanish National Research Council) is participating in NanoSC, a COST Actiontrying 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.
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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.
From 18th May to 17th July 2015, Juan Carlos Gonzalez has visited Prof. Renner’s group at Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Université de Genève, Genève (Switzerland) to perform some experiments on “Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of Resistive Switching phenomena in La1-xSrxMnO3-x compounds” under the supervision of Dr. Ivan Maggio-Aprile.
http://dpmc.unige.ch/gr_renner/en/index.html
“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.”
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“Solo uno de cada 10 investigadores galardonados en la última edición de las Advanced Grants del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC) es mujer. La diferencia entre sexos registrada este año es aún mayor de lo habitual. En España, entre los 13 investigadores que han conseguido este apoyo financiero, solo hay una mujer: Teresa Puig, del Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona.”
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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.
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