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For emerging energy saving technologies superconducting materials with superior performance are needed. Such materials can be developed by manipulating the "elementary building blocks" through nanostructuring. For superconductivity the "elementary blocks" are Cooper pair and fluxon (vortex). This book presents new ways how to modify superconductivity and vortex matter through nanostructuring and the use of nanoscale magnetic templates. The basic nano-effects, vortex and vortex-antivortex patterns, vortex dynamics, Josephson phenomena, critical currents, and interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism at the nanoscale are discussed. Potential applications of nanostructured superconductors are also presented in the book.

Quantum mechanics. Quantumfield theory --- Thermal properties of solids --- Electrical engineering

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This thesis presents pioneering work in the relatively new field of focused ion beam (FIB) sculpting of single crystals to produce bespoke devices and enable the investigation of physics that cannot be studied in bulk samples. It begins with a comprehensive and didactic account of how to achieve this sculpting, revealing the ‘tricks of the trade’ of state-of-the-art FIB microstructuring. In subsequent chapters, the author presents ground-breaking results obtained from microstructures of the delafossite oxide metal PdCoO2 and the heavy fermion superconductor CeIrIn5. In these elegant, forefront experiments, a new form of directional ballistic transport in the ultra-pure delafossites is described and explained. Furthermore, a new way to spatially modulate superconductivity induced by strain is demonstrated with electrical transport measurements that agree well with predictions based on thermoelastic finite element simulations.

Thermal properties of solids --- Materials sciences --- supergeleiding --- materiaalkennis

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Statistical physics --- Thermal properties of solids --- Electronics --- Electrical engineering --- Computer. Automation --- supergeleiding --- nanotechniek --- quantumcomputers --- elektronica --- fysica

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Mathematical physics --- Statistical physics --- Thermal properties of solids --- Physics --- supergeleiding --- statistiek --- wiskunde --- fysica

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Electromagnetism. Ferromagnetism --- Thermal properties of solids --- Solid state physics --- Electronics --- supergeleiding --- lasers (technologie) --- fysica --- magnetisme --- halfgeleiders