Research Interests

on Solid State Physics, Superconductivity

1. Josephson effect, transport at interfaces of hybrid systems, Proximity effect, Andreev reflection, Tunneling Spectroscopy in supercondcuting junctions
   

1. Physics of HTS Josephson junctions: Grain boundaries, Unconventional superconductivity, Effects induced by d-wave order Parameter Symmetry, pi-junctions; fractional vortices; Irradiation effects in HTS junctions
   

1. Macroscopic Quantum effects. macroscopic quantum tunneling, coherence and dissipation
   

1. High critical temperature superconductors (HTS) & Strongly Correlated systems, through studies on Josephson junctions and vortex matter (transport measurements and Scanning SQUID Microscopy)
   

1. Mesoscopic physics, nanostructures, physics at the nanoscale, hybrid nano-devices
   

1. Superconducting Electronics: HTS SQUIDs & novel devices based on d-wave junctions
   

1. Nucleation of topological defects in phase transitions, spontaneous magnetization in frustrated geometry
   

1. Amorphous superconductors, superconductor-insulator transition in HTS ultra-thin films, two dimensional systems
   

HTS group in collaboration with:

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY/Stanford University CA, USA (J. Kirtley)

Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden (F. Lombardi)

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy (F. Beltram)

Institute for Physical High Technology, Jena, Germany (E. Ilichev)

University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands (A. Golubov and H. Hilgenkamp)

AMES Laboratories (V. Kogan)

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA (V. Kresin)

Columbia University, NY, USA (B. Altshuler)

for the complete list see Publications list