Director(s):
J. C. Seamus Davis
Lead Institution:
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Mission:
To discover new high-temperature superconductors and improve the performance of known superconductors by understanding the fundamental physics of superconductivity.
Research Topics:
phonons, thermal conductivity, energy storage (including batteries and capacitors), superconductivity, defects, spin dynamics
Materials Studied:
MATERIALS: metal, oxide
Experimental and Theoretical Methods:
X-ray diffraction and scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, density functional theory (DFT), quantum mechanics
Partner Institutions:
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Los Alamos National Laboratory