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      • Symposium A: Amorphous and Polycrystalline Thin-Film Silicon Science and Technology
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Symposium I: Recent Advances in Superconductors, Novel Compounds, and High-Tc Materials

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Recent Advances in Superconductors, Novel Compounds, and High-Tc Materials

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Japan Society of Applied Physics  

Research on the design and synthesis of new superconductors has been active over the past decade with the discoveries of magnesium diboride (MgB₂) and iron-based superconductors.  In addition, rapid progress improving flux pinning in cuprate superconductors has been made by advanced technologies to form a variety of nanocomposites.  These new compounds and new technologies are opening doors to practical application of superconducting power cables that will be included in the smart grid system and development of superconducting magnets that can generate ultrahigh fields or be used at elevated temperatures.  This session will address the latest developments on iron-based and other novel superconductors, plus new advances manipulating the microstructure of cuprate superconductors.

Session topics will include:

• Synthesis and microstructure of thin films, single crystals, and sintered bulks of iron-based superconductors
• Magnetic properties, transport properties, and vortex state in iron-based superconductors
• Flux pinning and critical current properties of cuprate superconductors at low temperatures in high magnetic fields.
• Self organization and formation of nanostructure in cuprate superconductors
• Technologies to control nanostructure, anisotropy of Jc against field direction and flux-pinning phenomena under magnetic fields
• Synthesis of MgB₂ materials and control of their superconducting properties
• Recent advances in Bi-based round wires
• Synthesis of organic superconductors and new-type superconductors, such as electric-field-induced superconductors, and their physical properties
• Recently discovered superconductors and electronic structure of related compounds
• Pairing symmetry and mechanisms of superconductivity of iron-based superconductors
• Theoretical models and calculations for high-Tc superconductivity
• Quantum criticality and superconductivity in spin and charge systems

A joint session with Symposium HH: Nanocomposites, Nanostructures, and Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Systems  is being considered.

A tutorial on superconducting materials and their applications, including future prospects, is tentatively planned. Further information will be included in the MRS Program that will be available online in January.
 

Invited speakers include:

Satoshi Awaji (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Leonardo Civale (Los Alamos National Lab), Toshiya Doi (Kagoshima Univ.), Chang-Beom Eom (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Giovanni Giunchi (EDISON S.p.A), Gianni Grasso (Columbus Superconductors), Alexander Gurevitch (Old Dominion Univ.), Bernhard Holzapfel (IFW Dresden, Germany), Hiroshi Ikuta (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Takashi Kambe (Okayama Univ., Japan), Fumitake Kametani (Florida State Univ.), Kenji Kaneko (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Takeharu Kato (Japan Fine Ceramics Ctr., Japan), Qiang Li (Brookhaven National Lab), Paolo Mele (Hiroshima Univ., Japan), Minoru Nohara (Okayama Univ., Japan), Hiraku Ogino (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Gianni Profeta (Univ. of L’Aquila, Italy), Teresa Puig (CSIC, Spain), Siddharth Shanker Saxena (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), David Singh (Oak Ridge National Lab), Tsuyoshi Tamegai and Kazunori Ueno (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Sun Hun Wee (Oak Ridge National Lab).

Symposium Organizers

Jun-ichi Shimoyama
University of Tokyo
Dept. of Applied Chemistry
7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Tel 81-3-5841-7705, Fax 81-3-5802-2808
shimo@sogo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp 

Eric Hellstrom
Florida State University
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
ASC - Shaw Bldg.
2031 E. Paul Dirac Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32310-3706
Tel 850-645-7489, Fax 850-645-7754
hellstrom@asc.magnet.fsu.edu 

Marina Putti
University of Genova and CNR-SPIN
Via Dodecaneso 33
I-16146 Genova, Italy
Tel 39-010-3536383, Fax 39-010-6598732
putti@fisica.unige.it 

Kaname Matsumoto
Kyushu Institute of Technology
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
1-1 Sensui-cho, Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu
Fukuoka 804-8550, Japan
Tel 81-93-884-3366, Fax 81-93-884-3377
matsu@post.matsc.kyutech.ac.jp 

Takanobu Kiss
Kyushu University
Research Institute of Superconductor Science and Systems
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku
Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Tel 81-92-802-3686, Fax 81-92-802-3677
kiss@sc.kyushu-u.ac.jp