Metamaterial Superconductors

Abstract

Major Goals: The goal is to apply metamaterial approaches of effective dielectric response function engineering to niobium titanium nitride (NbTiN) and magnesium diboride (MgB2) for improvement of their superconducting properties. Unlike traditional searches for higher Tc superconductors among natural materials, which exhibit larger electron-electron interactions by virtue of chance, we suggest to engineer the electron pairing interaction using the unique assortment of tools, which have been very recently developed in the field of artificial electromagnetic metamaterials. Considerable enhancement of attractive electron-electron interaction may be expected hyperbolic metamaterials (multilayered superconductor/dielectric heterostructures). Such NbTiN and MgB2 need to be fabricated and their dielectric function and superconducting properties need to be tested and correlated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 29, 2019
Accession Number
AD1112666

Entities

People

  • Vera Smolaninova

Organizations

  • Towson University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Aluminum
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Critical Temperature
  • Electromagnetic Metamaterials
  • Electron Electron Interactions
  • Engineering
  • Films
  • Geometry
  • Low Temperature
  • Materials
  • Materials Engineering
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Metals
  • Metamaterials
  • Neutron Scattering
  • Physics
  • Scattering
  • Students
  • Superconductivity
  • Superconductors
  • Surface Roughness
  • Thickness
  • Thin Films

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene