A BRIEF COURSE ON

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

PHYSICS
PROF SAURABH BASU
Department of Physics
IIT Guwahati

TYPE OF COURSE : New | Elective | PG/Ph.D COURSE DURATION : 4 weeks (25 Feb’19 - 22 Mar’19)
INTENDED AUDIENCE : BE/ME (Material Science) and EXAM DATE : 27 April 2019
M.Sc(Physics, Material Science)
PRE-REQUISITES : Solid State Physics

INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : Companies into material science and ceramic research will be benefitted.

COURSE OUTLINE :
The course mainly concerns with the electrodynamics response of the conventional superconductors, both at low
and high frequencies. Besides, the course aims to introduce state of the art topics like, Josephson junctions, SQUID
etc. More over the course provides introduction to the modern superconducting materials, such as the High-Tc CuO
2 based superconductors, Carbon based and Iron superconductors. Especially with the prospects of realizing room
temperature superconductivity discovered in nanostructures by scientists at IISc Bangalore, the course will gain
importance among interested audience.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
Dr. Saurabh Basu is a Professor at the Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati. The area of expertise is Theoretical
Condensed Matter Physics, with special emphasis on the correlated boson and fermion systems, topological insula-
tors. He has about 90 research publications in different refereed international journals.

COURSE PLAN :
Week 01 : Basics of superconductivity
Week 02 : Electrodynamics of Superconductors
Week 03 : Josephson Junctions, SQUIDS
Week 04 : Unconventional Superconductors

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