Leibniz-Institut fur Festkorper und Werkstofforschung Dresden

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IFW-IMW Dresden
www.ifw-dresden.de
 

Organization profile:
The Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstofforschung Dresden e.V. (IFW Dresden) is a non-university research institute and member of the Leibniz Association. The institute has presently about 500 staff members (including about 120 PhD students) financed by public and industrial sources. The IFW Dresden is devoted to fundamental and applied research and development, with particular emphasis on the fields of solid state and materials research. The research program is focussed on functional materials which hold a key position in many fields of application: superconducting and magnetic materials, thin film systems and nanostructures as well as crystalline and amorphous materials. In an interdisciplinary approach it combines fundamental research in physics, chemistry and material science with the specific needs of technological application.
 

Leader:
Dr. Bernhard Holzapfel is head of the department “Superconducting Materials” in the Institute of Metallic Materials at the IFW. His scientific competences cover the development of YBCO coated conductors (both RABiTS and IBAD based), basic investigations of pinning in superconducting materials as well as the preparation and characterization of superconducting thin films and heterostructures. He led and coordinated a number of projects within superconductivity (e.g. Eu RTN network NESPA) and is author of more than 200 publications in scientific journals.
 

Expertise:
The development of superconducting materials is a major focus of the institute with a total of around 80 people working on that topic. Among them, the Superconducting Materials research group focuses on melt textured bulks, RE-123 coated conductors, Fe-based superconducting thin films and PIT tapes and range from basic phase diagram investigations over the development of advanced film deposition techniques to up-scaling projects in cooperation with industry. The IFW Dresden was and is involved in a number of national and European projects on superconductivity.
 

Specific facilities: 
The Superconducting materials group has several PLD deposition systems for Fe based superconductors (for standard thin film growth and Laser-MBE for layer by layer growth), which will be available for the project. The characterisation tools involve standard and high-resolution X-ray devices, AFM, PPMS systems up to 14 T, high pulsed field measurements up to 60 T, FIB with high resolution SEM and EBSD, standard as well as aberration corrected high-resolution TEM.
 

Personnel assigned to this project:
Dr. Bernhard Holzapfel, team leader and characterisation; Dr. Kazumasa Iida, thin film preparation, Dr. Jens Hänisch, superconducting characterisation; Elke Reich, HR-TEM, 1 technician and 1 PhD students.
 

Main tasks in SUPER-IRON:

• Thin film and multilayer deposition
• Deposition using bicrystal substrates
• Crystallographic characterization (TEM, HRTEM)
• High pulsed magnetic field investigations