Prof. Kyle Shen deliveres a talk at ICMAB entitled “Thin Film Nickelates: A New Frontier for High-Temperature Superconductivity”

Prof. Kyle Shen, from the Department of Physics at Cornell University, deliveres a talk at ICMAB entitled “Thin Film Nickelates: A New Frontier for High-Temperature Superconductivity”.

Here the abstract about the talk:

Superconductivity plays a key role in many next-generation technologies, including quantum computing and sensing. The promise of discovering new superconductors with higher transition temperatures has been at the forefront of research in condensed matter physics, materials science, and solid state chemistry for the past 4 decades. From the high-temperature cuprate superconductors of the 1990s, to the iron-based superconductors of the 2010s, significant attention has now been directed in the past few years to the nickelate families of superconductors, particularly the so-called “infinite layer” nickelates as well as the recently discovered bilayer nickelate, La₃Ni₂O₇.

In this seminar, I will describe recent advances in the study of the infinite-layer and bilayer nickelate superconductors. I will highlight new thin film synthesis approaches developed by our research group, and how this enables investigations of superconductivity and the phase diagram of both these families.