The EUCAS conference that took place from September 21st to 24th in Porto was full of talks and events related to the topic of irradiation of superconductors, showing increasing interest of the broad community with respect to past events. Here is a (hopefully complete) list:
Sessions
- Special Session (oral) – Session on Critical Currents and Flux Pinning Irradiation Effects
- Poster Session – REBCO Coated Conductors: Irradiation Effects
One plenary talk
- Speller – Microstructure: A Key to Superconductor Performance
Two invited talks
- Unterrainer – Radiation Tolerance of REBCO Coated Conductors -Influence of Pristine Properties and Operating Conditions
- Torsello – Trends and perspectives in radiation damage of HTS
Thirteen talks
- Lang – Crafting vortex topologies into copper-oxide superconductors by focused helium-ion-beam irradiationand their temporal evolution
- Propper – Towards a Voltage Standard using YBa2Cu3O7-x Josephson Junction Arrays Fabricated by Focused He Ion Beam Irradiation
- Gambino – Atomistic modelling of radiation damage in HTS for fusion applications
- Adams – The performance of REBCO coated conductor during in situ cryogenic fusion-spectrum neutron irradiation
- Silva – Microwave Vortex Motion in Fe(Se,Te) and FeSeThin Films: Investigating Vortex Core Dissipation, Pinning, Anisotropy, and the Effects of Heavy-Ion Irradiation
- Rizzo – Highly effective Au ion irradiationon Fe(Se,Te) thin films grown on buffered templates
- Bodenseher – In-situ measurements of the normal state resistivity during annealing of neutron irradiated REBCO
- Ghigo – Vortex dynamics and pinning in NbTi, Nb3Sn and YBCO films: a microwave analysis and ion irradiation study
- Braccini – Effect of Pb irradiation on the superconducting properties of Fe(Se,Te) thin films
- Coulson – Observing oxygen in REBCO coated conductor tapes: The power of electron ptychography and high-resolution EELS for studying irradiation damage effects in REBCO
- Torsello – Advanced evaluation of radiation damagein HTS for fusion applications
- Duchenko – Effects of Disorder and Defects on the Critical Current Density of CaKFe4As4
- Pepe – Ion Irradiation for Advanced Control of Superconductivity in Thin Films
Ten posters
- Tufnail – Investigating the effect of 2 MeV He+ ion irradiation on the anisotropy and high-field performance of GdBa2Cu3O7-δ coated conductors
- Gupta – Characterising Irradiation Damageof REBCO Coated Conductors using Polarised Cu K-edge EXAFS and X-ray Diffraction
- Fihosy – Building a picture of the atomic-scale structural changes induced by radiation damage in REBCO coated conductors with multi-element EXAFS
- Lecerf – Improving YBCO-based Quantum Interference Antennas Performance via Annealing of Ion-IrradiatedJosephson Junctions
- Gupta – InvestigatingIrradiation Induced Defects in Iron Based Superconductors using HRTEM and EXAFS
- Zhang – Enhanced the Critical Current in nanocrystal-added REBCO-coated conductors via He-Ion Irradiation
- Pinto – Gamma radiation hardness of chemically deposited YBCO film and commercial HTS at fusion relevant irradiation conditions
- Asiyaban – Effects of high neutron radiation fluences on critical currents in superconducting Nb3Sn wires
- Yuan – Modifying thermal properties of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with helium ion irradiation
- Casciello – HTS Prototype Coil Design and Modelling for Radiation Hardness Experiments
One contribution to the short courses
- Torsello – MATERIALS: Irradiation effects on HTS materials
