Acquisition of a SQUID Magnetometer

9601839阿尔马山用于材料研究的超导量子干涉装置(SQUID)磁强计将由肯特州立大学购买。该仪器将支持对高转变温度超导体和液晶的磁性的研究。将使用该仪器的主要研究项目包括研究氧化铜双层膜的约瑟夫森耦合和高温超导体中的涡旋相，以及溶致液晶和聚合物液晶中的相变和临界点。该仪器将使一群年轻的教员受益，他们在一个经常涉及敏感磁学(超导)的领域工作，而在另一个应用这种技术的领域(液晶)工作。该项目的首席研究员和主要合作研究员都是物理学专业的女性教员，而在这一学科中，女性的比例严重偏低。仪器设施将增强他们的榜样作用，并将有助于吸引女学生进入科学领域。***

9601839 Almasan A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer for materials research will be acquired by Kent State University. The instrument will support research on the magnetic properties of high transition temperature superconductors and of liquid crystals. Major research projects that will use the instrument include studies of Josephson coupling of copper oxide bilayers and of the vortex phases in high-temperature superconductors, and of phase transitions and critical points in lyotropic and polymeric liquid crystals. %%% The instrument will benefit a group of young faculty working in one area which routinely involves sensitive magnetometry (superconductivity) and in another area where the application of such technique is just emerging (liquid crystals). Both the principal investigator and main co-investigator in the project are female faculty in physics, a discipline where women are severely underrepresented. The instrument facility will enhance their role model and will help to attract female students to the sciences. ***