Accession Number:

AD1112666

Title:

Metamaterial Superconductors

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Final Report]

Corporate Author:

Towson University

Personal Author(s):

• Smolaninova, Vera

Report Date:

2019-08-29

Pagination or Media Count:

19

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 superconductordielectric heterostructures. Such NbTiN and MgB2 need to be fabricated and their dielectric function and superconducting properties need to be tested and correlated.

Descriptors:

• materials science
• materials
• engineering
• electron electron interactions
• low temperature
• metamaterials
• electromagnetic metamaterials
• materials processing
• physics
• critical temperature
• neutron scattering
• students
• superconductors
• surface roughness
• abstracts
• films
• geometry
• materials engineering
• measurement
• metals

Subject Categories:

• Electricity and Magnetism

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]