Investigation of new superconductors with multiband behavior in transition metal diborides

• Grant number: 14/25241-3
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Jefferson da Silva Machado
• Grantee: Ted William Grant
• Home Institution: Escola de Engenharia de Lorena (EEL). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Lorena , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This proposal shows preliminary results of diborides that show clear signatures of multiband materials. The similarity to the behaviors observed in MgB2 is remarkable. Within this context, this work proposal focuses on the synthesis of potential candidates that display the multiband behavior, as preliminary results show. In this scenario, a huge family of new diborides that can present these unusual behaviors is a real possibility. Besides the scientific work presented in this proposal, the proponent will also help supervise students and help in the internationalization process of the Superconductivity group at EEL-USP, led by Prof. Antonio Jefferson da Silva Machado, which is the supervisor of this work

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GRANT, T. W.; CIGARROA, O. V.; ROSA, P. F. S.; MACHADO, A. J. S.; FISK, Z. Tuning of superconductivity by Ni substitution into noncentrosymmetric ThCo1-xNixC2. Physical Review B, v. 96, n. 1 JUL 10 2017. Web of Science Citations: 1.