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Egeraat, Jasper van (2018)

Simulating the Effect of Periodic Nanopatterning on the Critical Temperature of Superconductors

Bachelor thesis | Natuurkunde (BSc)

We describe a method to increase the critical temperature of BCS superconductors. The method is based on altering the electronic properties of a thin film of a superconductor by periodically fabricating holes in the crystal lattice. We use a MATLAB simulation to demonstrate that certain patterns enhance the coupling between electrons and phonons, which increases the transition temperature. In this project we attempted to improve the simulation such that it executes faster and is compatible with hexagonal structures.

Simulating

Periodic nanopatterning

Critical Temperature

Superconductor

Simulation

Author

Egeraat, Jasper van

Faculty

Faculty of Science

Specialisation

Physics/mathematics

Supervisors

Allan, Milan

ECTS Credits

3

Language

en