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SUPERTED talks

• Tero Heikkilä describes the challenges and advances in the project
• Tero Heikkilä explains the motivation behind the project
• Ilari Maasilta, Zhuoran Geng and Ari Helenius explain the practical goals of the project

SUPERTED seminars

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Public Outreach

• Talk at "mano a mano" (hand to hand) event organized in the context of the International day of the women and girls in science "SUPERTED: un nuevo detector de radiación termoelectrico" (SUPERTED: a new thermoelectric radiation detector) in San Sebastián, CSIC, 2/2019
• The Europe-wide science event Researchers’ Night aiming to introduce science and the work of researchers to general public. European Researchers’ Night is financed by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (no 817987). SUPERTED project participants in Jyväskylä have participated three times in organizing the event with NSC.
  • The event held in 9/2018 was experienced by 1700 visitors
  • The event held in 9/2019 was experienced by 1300 visitors
  • The event held in 9/2022 was experienced by 900 visitors

Press Releases

• "The first superconducting spintronic tunnel diode", CNR, 5/2022
• "Researchers find way to form diodes from superconductors", JYU, 5/2022
  • In Finnish: "Tutkijat löysivät tavan muodostaa suprajohtavan diodin"
• "Researchers find superconductors can carry magnetic information to much longer distances than conventional metals", JYU, 5/2022
  • In Finnish: "Tutkijoiden havainto: Suprajohde kuljettaa magneettista informaatiota tavanomaista pidemmälle"
• "Gate-controlled suspended titanium nanobridge supercurrent transistor published on ACS Nano", CNR, 9/2020
• "Physicists create quantum phase battery", Physicsworld, 7/2020
• "A Josephson phase battery has been published on Nature Technology", CNR, 6/2020
• "A phase battery for quantum technologies", CSIC, 6/2020
  • In italian, associated with the same publication:
    • "La superbatteria ora è piccolissima", La Nazione Pisa, 6/2020
    • "Realizzata una batteria a fase quantica dal Laboratorio NEST di Pisa", Normale News, 6/2020
    • "Ecco la batteria di fase per tecnologie quantistiche", CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 6/2020
    • "Realizzata una batteria a fase quantica. E’ la prima volta", La Repubblica, 6/2020
    • "Realizzata una batteria a fase quantica, è la prima volta", Libero 24x7, 6/2020
    • "Realizzata una batteria a fase quantica, è la prima volta", Adnkronos, 6/2020
    • "Unisa, realizzata una 'super batteria' ", La Citta, 6/2020
    • "Ricerca pisana, ecco una batteria a fase quantica", QUInews, 6/2020
    • "La prima batteria che “inganna” la chimica", La Stampa, 6/202034
    • "FISICA: Nasce a normale Pisa prima batteria a fase quantica", CGIL Toscana, 6/2020
• "The American Physical Society recognized Ilari Maasilta's merits as a Referee", JYU, 3/2020
• "Nonlinear thermoelectricity with electron-hole symmetric systems published on Physical Review Letters", CNR, 3/2020
• Doctoral dissertation: "31.2.2020 M.Sc. Faluke Aikebaier (Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Physics)", JYU, 1/2020
• "Thermal, electric and spin transport in superconductor/ferromagnetic-insulator structures", JYU, 12/2019
• "Non-Adiabatic Dynamics of Strongly Driven Diffusive Josephson junctions", JYU, 12/2019
• Nadia Ligato awarded at “RAITH Micrograph Award 2019”, CNR, 11/2019
• "Field-Effect Controllable Metallic Josephson Interferometer published on Nano Letters", CNR, 9/2019
• "Josephson Field-Effect Transistors Based on All-Metallic Al/Cu/Al Proximity Nano junctions", CNR, 6/2019
• "Researchers developing an ultrasensitive radiation detector meet in Jyväskylä", JYU, 9/2018 
  
• "European Project SUPERTED", BIHUR, 8/2018
  
• "La Comisión Europea, dentro de su programa FET Open (Future Emerging Technologies), ha concedido tres millones de euros a Superted", CFM, 5/2018
• "European funding for developing a new type of radiation detector", JYU, 4/2018

Conference participation

1.3.2021-28.2.2023

• ASC2020 Applied Superconductivity Conference 2020, Honolulu, USA (25.10.2022). Talk by Elia Strambini: "Biasless detection of electromagnetic radiation using a superconductor/ ferromagnet heterostructure"
• Applied Superconductivity Conference, Honolulu, USA (23.-28.10.2022) Talk by Ilari Maasilta "Progress in superconductor-ferromagnet thermoelectric detector (SFTED) development"
• Mole-Conference, San Sebastian (25-29.7.2022). Invited talk by Celia Rogero: "Magnetic 2D semiconductor materials: developing materials for upcoming Digital Transformation"
• Quantum designer physics workshop, San Sebastian, Spain (18-21.07.2022). Talk by Stefan Ilic: "Supercurrent diode effect in Rashba superconductors with arbitrary disorder"
• Quantum designer physics workshop, San Sebastian, Spain (18-21.07.2022). Poster by Stefan Ilic: "Current rectification in junctions with spin-split superconductors"
• Quantum spintronics workshop 2022, NTNU, Trondheim (13-15.6.2022). Invited talk by Tero Heikkilä: "Magnetization dynamics in superconductor/ferromagnet heterostructures".
• Novel Quantum Phases in Superconducting Heterostructures workshop, Bad Honnef, Germany (30.5.-2.6.2022). Invited talk by Sebastian Bergeret: "Magnetoelectric effects and reciprocal-transport in superconducting systems with spin-orbit coupling and spin-splitting fields"
• Nanospain Conference 2022, Madrid (17-20.5.2022), Invited talk by Celia Rogero: "Exploring new 2D halides materials for quantum devices"
• Superconducting diode effects workshop, VSF Speakers Corner (11.05.2022). Online talk by Stefan Ilic: "Supercurrent diode effect in Rashba superconductors with arbitrary disorder"
• Quantum Materials and Devices at the Nanoscale Workshop, Madrid (7-9.2.2022). Invited talk by Celia Rogero: "Ferromagnetic-insulator/superconductor interfaces as a platform for superconducting-based nanodevices"
• JYU/Aalto/Michigan State University joint workshop Quantum technologies and hybrid systems (25.-29.10.2021). Talk by Tero Heikkilä: "Coupling superconductivity and magnetism"
• Low dimensional superconducting hybrids for novel quantum functionalities, College de France, Paris (12.-14. 2021 Oct). Talk by Sebastian Bergeret: "Superconductors with a spin-splitting field: fundamentals and applications"
• Low dimensional superconducting hybrids for novel quantum functionalities, College de France, Paris (12.-14. 2021 Oct). Poster by Stefan Ilic: "Current rectification in junctions with spin-split superconductors"
• Low dimensional superconducting hybrids for novel quantum functionalities, College de France, Paris (12.-14. 2021 Oct). Poster by Alberto Hijano: "The anomalous Andreev interferometer"
• Research in superconductivity and beyond(Eliashberg Memorial Conference), Chernogolovka, Russia (23.-26. August 2021). Talk by Sebastian Bergeret: Paramagnetic response of Superconductors revisited: The role of spin-orbit coupling and finite-size effects

1.9.2019-28.2.2021

• SPICE workshop Coherent order and transport in spin-active systems, online meeting on superconducting spintronics (19.11.2020). Invited tutorial talk by Tero Heikkilä: "Nonequilibrium phenomena in superconductors in proximity to magnets".
• KITP meeting Spintronics meets topology in quantum materials, Santa Barbara, USA (13.11.2019). Talk by Tero Heikkilä: "Josephson-type dynamics of magnetic domain walls".
• ASC2020 Applied Superconductivity Conference 2020, an online conference (24.10.-7.11.2020) Talk by Ilari Maasilta: "Recent progress in the development of the Superconductor-ferromagnet thermoelectric detector (SFTED)".
• EASISchool 3 - Superconductivity and its Applications, Genoa, Italy (28.9.-9.10.2020). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Thermal Quantum Devices”.
• 106mo Congresso Nazionale della Societa’ Italiana di Fisica (14-18.9.2020). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: : “Josephson field-effect transistors go metal: A groundbreaking route towards concrete superconducting electronics”.
• APS March Meeting 2020, Boulder, CO, USA (5.3.2020). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Advanced Josephson junctions circuits and nanoscale devices: The phase-coherence in heat transport”.
• SuperFOx2020 Conference on Superconductivity and Functional Oxides, Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy (12.2.2020). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Josephson field-effect transistors go metal: A groundbreaking route towards concrete superconducting electronics”.
• Yes, Those are the atoms: Trends in 35 years of STM in Spain, Madrid (25.-26.10.2019). Invited talk by Celia Rogero ”Surface Science in San Sebastian: combining STM and ARPES”.
• International conference Nanowire Week 2019, Pisa, Italy (23.-27.9.2019). Talk by Elia Strambini “Magnetically-driven anomalous phase shift in InAs nanowire Josephson Junctions”.

1.9.2018-31.8.2019

• College on Energy Transport and Energy Conversion in the Quantum Regime, Trieste, Italy (12.-30.8.2019). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Phase-coherent thermal transport in superconducting nanocircuits”.
• IBERTRIVA 2019, Seville, Spain (26.-28.6.2019). Talk by Carmen Gonzalez-Orellana ”Optimization of the epitaxial growth and characterization of ultrathin EuS films on InAs (001)".
• Quantum Thermodynamics Conference, Espoo, Finland (23.-28.6.2019). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Coherent Caloritronics in Josephson quantum circuits”.
• PIERS 2019, Rome, Italy (17.-20.6.2019). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Phase-coherent caloritronics in Josephson nanocircuits”.
• WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Superconductivity in low-dimensional and interacting systems, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany (3.-6.6.2019). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Superconductivity in low-dimensional and interacting systems”.
• Vortex 2019 17th International Workshop on Vortex Matter in Superconductors, Antwerp, Belgium (20-25.5.2019). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Supercurrent and Josephson field-effect transistors go metal”.
• International conference Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Rome, Italy (25.4.2019). Invited talk by Elia Strambini: “SM-RAM – Superconducting Magnetic Random Access Memory based on the absolute spin valve effect”.
• DPG 2019, Regensburg (31.3.-5.4.2019), Talk by Carmen Gonzalez-Orellana ”Epitaxial growth of the ultrathin EuS films on the InAs(001) and magnetic coupling between these films and organometallic phthalocyanine monolayers”.
• Conference on Non-equilibrium superconductivity and spintronics, The Royal Society, Kavli Royal Society Centre, Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell, UK (25.2.2019). Invited talk by Francesco Giazotto: “Superconducting field-effect transistors go metal”.

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