Fabrication and Evaluation of Superconducting and Semiconducting Materials

Abstract

SFA provided research support to the Naval Research Laboratory Material Physics Branch by conducting investigations into the properties of superconducting, magnetic, and other solid state materials. Studies were made with an assortment of experimental techniques, including sophisticated materials preparation, magnetic resonance, electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, the Mossbauer effect, and a variety of other techniques that probe the physical state of matter. SFA also aided the Material Physics Branch in conducting research into applied problems such as the design of magnetic shielding and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometry detection of magnetic anomalies. SFA provided research assistance in the areas of bulk ceramic sample preparation, conversion electron Mossbauer spectrometry, ultra-high vacuum thin film deposition and characterization, sputter thin film deposition, and superconducting measurements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA271645

Entities

People

  • William Lechter

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Crystal Structure
  • Deposition (Materials Processing)
  • Detection
  • Diffraction
  • Laboratory Magnetometers
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Magnetic Materials
  • Magnetic Properties
  • Magnetometers
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Quantum Wells
  • Scattering
  • Spectra
  • Spectrometry

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Superconducting Magnet Technology
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Science - Quantum Dots