Methusalem Funding > Nanoscale superconductivity, fluxonics and photonics: Addressing grand challenges
Nanoscale superconductivity, fluxonics and photonics: Addressing grand challenges
Coordinator |
Prof. Victor Moshchalkov |
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Methusalem Group |
Prof. André Stesmans |
Centre |
Nanoscale superconductivity, fluxonics and photonics: Addressing grand challenges |
Starting date |
January 1st 2009 |
Financing |
EUR 900.000 per year |
Summary
To enable the emerging technologies, the new superconducting and photonic materials with a superior performance can be developed by manipulating the appropriate “elementary building blocks” through nanostructuring. Such “elementary blocks” are Cooper pair and fluxon for superconductivity and photon and plasmon for photonics/nanoplasmonics. This brings us to the main objectives of the proposed Methusalem programme: (a) to investigate the effect of the nanoscale confinement of the Cooper pairs and flux on superconductivity and flux behaviour in order to enhance the superconducting critical parameters (critical current, field and temperature), through nanostructuring thus enabling novel functionalities and new applications of the superconducting materials; (b) to investigate the optical confinement and plasmonic behaviour in individual nanocells (normal metallic, magnetic, superconducting, semiconducting and hybrid) and in metamaterials formed by the arrays of these nanocells for achieving new optical properties and for merging photonics with electronics at the nanoscale.
Motivation by the University BoardIOnderzoeksbeleid