About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T25: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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2025 Undergraduate Student Poster Contest
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| Presentation Title |
SPU-28: Understanding Transport Properties Below Tc in Topological Superconductor CuxBi2Se3 |
| Author(s) |
Shawn Rottinghaus |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Shawn Rottinghaus |
| Abstract Scope |
Topological Superconductors exhibit unique and emergent phenomena due topologically protected surface states. They act as practical Andreev bound states leading to the formation of fault-tolerant cooper pairs. Primarily topological superconductors have seemingly random shielding fractions from sample to sample, regardless of system parameters during crystallization, along with their difficulty to physically manipulate. This poster will focus on the topological superconductor CuxBi2Se3. It will go over the material fabrication process, and optimizations. Future engineering problems which this material faces. Along with the characterization of its superconducting properties. Which during experimentation yielded a superconducting critical temperature of 3.8k, along with an upper critical field of an estimated 1.5 T. |