Science and Technology Research Center for High Temperature Superconductivity

这一奖项授予伊利诺伊大学香槟-厄巴纳分校，与芝加哥大学、西北大学和阿贡国家实验室合作，旨在建立超导科学技术中心。该中心的主任是伊利诺伊大学的迈尔斯·V·克莱因教授。该中心的智力努力针对六个相互关联的研究领域。超导理论的研究分别涉及电子结构计算、多体理论和多体模拟之间的合作。比较了各种化学和物理方法制备的薄膜，并将其用于基础物理和器件制造的研究。微观结构的研究涉及超导材料、触点和界面的亚结构以及它们对各种处理的响应。该处理小组的目标是生产支持高电流密度、环境和热稳定的高温超导体。合成工作承担了所有中心参与者的样品制备要求，以及寻找新的超导体和开发控制纯度、化学计量比和微观结构的新方法。教育和外展计划包括与其他机构的合作研究、研讨会、会议，以及通过目前在阿贡国家实验室实施的计划进行广泛的教育外展。与业界的接触包括直接合作和技术转让计划。

This award to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, in cooperation with the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory, is to establish a Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity. The director of the Center is Professor Miles V. Klein of the University of Illinois. The intellectual efforts of the Center are directed into six interconnected research areas. Studies in the theory of superconductivity involve collaboration between those exert in electronic structure calculations, many-body theory, and many- body simulations respectively. Thin films prepared by a variety of chemical and physical methods are compared and used for both studies in fundamental physics and device fabrication. Studies of microstructure address the substructure of superconducting materials, contacts and interfaces and their response to various treatments. The processing group has the goals of producing high temperature superconductors that support high current densities and are environmentally and thermally stable. The synthesis effort undertakes the sample preparation requirements for all Center participants as well as searching for new superconductors and developing novel methods for controlling purity, stoichiometry, and microstructure. Education and outreach programs involve cooperative research with other institutions, workshops, conferences, and extensive educational outreach through the program now in place at Argonne National Laboratory. Contacts with industry include direct collaboration and a technology transfer program.