Dear Colleagues,
Since the discovery of metallic superconductors (low temperature) by H. Kamerlingh-Onnes in 1911 and ceramic superconductors (high temperature) by researchers J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Mueller at an IBM laboratory in Switzerland in 1987, there have been tremendous efforts put in understanding how superconductivity occurs, such as the Ginzburg–Landau and BSC theories and Little–Parks effect.
An incredible amount of work has also been done on the implementation of low and high temperature superconductors: SQUID magnetometers, micro/nano electronics, superconducting electromagnets used to build maglev trains, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear magnetic resonance devices, particle accelerators in nuclear reactors, RF and microwave filters, fault current limiters, transition edge sensors, the superconducting bolometers, the superconducting tunnel junction detectors, the kinetic inductance detector, and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, to name but a few.
The purpose of the Special Issue on “Superconductors for Opto–Nano and Micro-Electromechanical Systems (N/MEMS)” is to reveal current efforts on the implementation and of superconductivity and superconducting materials in nano and micro-electromechanical devices such as sensors, actuators and harvesters, sensors, and switches for quantum computing circuits, and their integration to such as CMOS, N/MEMS, and microfluidics platforms and their properties testing/metrology and structural characterization, i.e., pinning density, crystalline phase distribution, etc.
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yavuz
Guest Editor