Un team di ricerca internazionale ha comunicato la fabbricazione di un materiale, basato su superconduttori ad alta temperatura critica e su supporto cosiddetto "coated conductor", in grado di far scorrere al suo interno una densità di corrente elettrica record, pari a 190 Milioni di Ampere per centimetro quadrato di sezione, alla temperatura di 4.2 K.

An international collaboration led by researchers from CNR-SPIN (OXiNEMS project) realized a micro-mechanical resonators showing both high-Q-factor and high-Tc superconductivity by growing YBa₂Cu₃O₇ on top of tensile-strained LaAlO₃ micro-bridges. Such devices are of great interest towards the development of advanced sensors, superconducting physics, and quantum opto-mechanics.

Lo scorso 10 Luglio, si è tenuto online il workshop "Growth of epitaxial thin films and multilayers by pulsed laser deposition, with real-time and in-situ monitoring of the process and post-deposition analyses". L'evento, organizzato da CNR-SPIN Napoli nell'ambito delle azioni del WP8 per il Progetto NFFA-Digital Infrastructures, ha registrato una partecipazione molto significativa con la presenza di oltre 90 tra ricercatori, post-doc e PhD.

In a paper recently published in Nature Communications, an international team, led by Prof. Kian Ping Loh, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and National University of Singapore(NUS), for the experimental part and by Dr. Alessandro Stroppa, CNR-SPIN, for the theoretical part, demonstrates, for the first kind, the coexistence of chirality, electric and magnetic orders in a hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite (R/S)-(MPA)₂CuCl₄ (MPA = β-methylphenethylamine).

The workshop has been successfully held in Salerno on June 21^st 2024 within the framework of the bilateral Italy – South Korea project MAP. The event has been organized by the Institute SPIN-CNR and the Department of Physics of University of Salerno.

The Shanghai International Crystallographic School - Workshop on Chirality in Solid-State Physics and Quantum Materials was successfully conducted from June 15^th to 21^st 2024, in Baoshan Campus of Shanghai University.

In the framework of Applied Superconductivity in Italy 2024, several project leaders are invited to present the activities taking place in Italy to the IEEE Council of Superconductivity.The CSC Italy Chapter Chair in University Roma Tre at Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical and Engineering on 28 May 2024 organizes the event.

L’Associazione Italiana di Cristallografia indice ogni anno un concorso allo scopo di promuovere la cristallografia come disciplina di studio nella Scuola Secondaria di Secondo grado.

E’ appena giunta al termine la 2° edizione di ”MISSIONE FISICA: IL CNR INCONTRA LE SCUOLE”, l’iniziativa dedicata allo sviluppo di PCTO (Percorsi per le Competenze Trasversali e l’Orientamento) ideata e realizzata dagli Istituti CNR INO, ISASI e SPIN a favore di scuole secondarie della provincia di Napoli. L’edizione di quest’anno ha visto la partecipazione di 6 classi provenienti dai Licei “Rita Levi Montalcini” di Quarto e “Giuseppe Mercalli” di Napoli per un totale di circa 130 studenti.

The paper "Coherent Quantum Network of Superconducting Qubits as a Highly Sensitive Detector of Microwave Photons for Searching of Galactic Axions", dealing with the demonstration of quantum network of superconducting qubits with highly entangled quantum phases, was recently selected as research highlight within the activities of the National Quantum Science and Technology Institute (NQSTI).