Superconductors are dissipationless carriers of electric current and provide macroscopic, and thus robust, quantum coherence. To achieve the required performance employed in applications as magnetic sensors, nowadays bulk superconductors frequently need nanoscale engineering. Interestingly, when these materials are reduced to the nanoscale becoming nano-superconductors, novel exciting physical phenomena emerge. This has encouraged the study of their performance in the three dimensions as key elements that would be implemented into superconducting circuits. Nevertheless, the fabrication and characterization of nano-superconductors in the three dimensions are still challenging. Here, I introduce a direct-write nanolithography method based on focused ion beam technologies to fabricate at-will advanced nano-superconductors. Particularly, I have prepared superconducting W-C nanostructures in the three dimensions by decomposing tungsten hexacarbonyl molecules with a highly-focused He+ or Ga+ ion beam.
Biography
Dr. Córdoba is a world expert in the preparation and characterization of advanced nanomaterials created in the three dimensions, particularly in superconducting and magnetic nanostructures.
Since 2019, Junior Leader fellow, Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol), University of Valencia, Spain. Young Investigator Award and Lecturership 2020 by Elsevier, MEE journal. To honour and promote a Young researcher in Nanofabrication and Nanotechnology for Physics.
Scientific co-coordinator 2D Materials research line, U. Excellence María de Maeztu, ICMol (2020-2023). PhD in Physics (2012), Condensed Matter Physics Department, University of Zaragoza, Spain. 58 scientific publications in HI peer-reviewed international journals (Nature Phys., Nature Comm., Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Phys. Rev. Lett., Adv. Elec. Mat., Nature Sci. Rep.), 1 book and 5 book chapters. h-index: 22; Citations: 1372.
