Inaugural lectures
Wednesday 17th November at 5pm - Lecture Theatre T.0.03, Wolfson Building
Fluxon cloning, superconducting brains and new approaches to electronics
Professor Feo Kusmartsev, Department of Physics
In this lecture Professor Kusmartsev will be discussing the principles of superconducting electronics and the possibility of building up superconducting devices with the use of superconducting vortices- fluxons.
Professor Kusmartsev will introduce a flux cloning phenomenon which is a basis of a large variety of possible superconducting devices, including transistor, computer gates brain, sources of Terahertz radiation and many others.
Different types of devices will be discussed, in particular Flux Flow Oscillator operating without magnetic field and its usage as a sources of T-rays, as well as other types of sources for terahertz radiation based on superconducting structures.
Moreover Professor Kusmartsev plans to talk about an idea of solid state brain - superconducting brain, which can be based on different superconducting logic gates, that are fundamental structures of digital circuits based of superconducting nano-structures.
He will also talk about new class waves which can propagate along a Josephson vortex in two dimensional Josephson junctions. These excitations are associated with the distortion of a Josephson vortex line of an arbitrary profile.