Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Effect of the sintering temperature on the microstructure and superconducting properties of MgB2 bulks manufactured by the field assisted sintering technique, Matthews, G. A. B., Santra, S., Ma, R., Grovenor, C., Grant, P., & Speller, S. (2020), Superconductor Science and Technology, 33(5), 054003. doi:10.1088/1361-6668/ab7c53
• Design and characterisation of ex-situ bulk MgB₂ superconductors containing a nanoscale dispersion of artificial pinning centres, Matthews, G., Liu, J., Grovenor, C. R. M., Grant, P. S., & Speller, S. C. (2020), Superconductor Science and Technology. doi:10.1088/1361-6668/ab6959
• Comparison of interfacial and critical current behaviour of Al+Al2O3 sheathed MgB2 wires with Ta and Ti diffusion barriers, Santra, S., Grovenor, C., Speller, S., Kovac, P., Kopera, L., & Husek, I. (2019). . Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 807. doi: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.151665
• The effect of the size of NbTi filaments on interfacial reactions and the properties of InSn-based superconducting solder joints, Santra, S., Davies, T., Matthews, G., Liu, J., Grovenor, C., & Speller, S. (2019). . Materials and Design, 176. doi: 10.1016/j.matdes.2019.107836
• Imaging the local electronic and magnetic properties of intrinsically phase separated Rbx Fe2-ySe2 superconductor using scanning microscopy techniques, Dudin, P., Herriott, D., Davies, T., Krzton-Maziopa, A., Pomjakushina, E., Conder, K., . . . Speller, S. (2019). . Superconductor Science and Technology, 32(4). doi:10.1088/1361-6668/aaffa8
• Evolution of the Fermi surface of the nematic superconductors FeSe1-xSx, Coldea, A., Blake, S. F., Kasahara, S., Haghighirad, A. -A., Watson, M. D., Knafo, W., . . . Schofield, A. J. (2016). Physical Review Letters.
• Bulk superconductors: a roadmap to applications, Durrell, J. H., Zhou, D., Vanderbemden, P., Bradshaw, T., Speller, S., Filipenko, M., & Cardwell, D. A. (2018). Superconductor Science and Technology, 31(10). doi:10.1088/1361-6668/aad7ce
• Development of superconducting soldered joints between Bi-2212/Ag wires, Mousavi, T., Davies, T., Melhem, Z., Grovenor, C., & Speller, S. (2018). IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 28(4), 1-3. doi:10.1109/TASC.2018.2817260
• Magnetic imaging of antiferromagnetic and superconducting phases in RbxFe2−ySe2 crystals, Hazi, J., Mousavi, T., Dudin, P., van der Laan, G., Maccherozzi, F., Krzton-Maziopa, A., . . . Speller, S. (2018). Physical Review B, 97(5). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.054509
• Development and characterization of a flux pumped lumped-element Josephson parametric amplifier, M. Esposito, J. Rahamim, A. Patterson, M. Mergenthaler, J. Wills, G. Campanaro, T. Tsunoda, P. Spring, S. Sosnina, S. Jebari, K. Ratter, G. Tancredi, B. Vlastakis and P. Leek, EPJ Web of Conferences 198, 00008 (2019);
• Ultrahigh critical current densities, the vortex phase diagram, and the effect of granularity of the stoichiometric high-T-c superconductor CaKFe4As4, SJ Singh, M Bristow, WR Meier, P Taylor, SJ Blundell, PC Canfield, AI Coldea, Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 074802 (2018);
• A new approach to fabricate superconducting NbTi alloys T Mousavi, Z Hong, A Morrison, A London, P S Grant, C R M Grovenor, S C Speller Superconductor Science and Techology 30 094001 (2017);
• Microstructural evolution in multiseeded YBCO bulk samples grown by the TSMG process A Goodfellow, Y-H Shi, J H Durrell, A R Dennis, D A Cardwell, C R M Grovenor and S C Speller Superconductor Science and Technology 29, 115005 (2016);
• Microstructure and superconducting properties of Sn–In and Sn–In–Bi alloys as Pb-free superconducting solders T Mousavi, C Aksoy, CRM Grovenor, SC Speller Superconductor Science and Technology 29 (1), 015012 (2015)
• Persistent current joints between technological superconductors GD Brittles, T Mousavi, CRM Grovenor, C Aksoy, SC Speller Superconductor Science and Technology 28 (9), 093001 (2015);

POSTERS

EUCAS 2017:

• Development of superconducting joints between Bi-2212/Ag wires.
• Correlating magnetic flux distributions with RbFe₂Se₂ superconductor microstructure using magntic force microscopy.
• Lead-free persistent mode joints between NbTi wires.

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ASC 2016:

• Microstructural and Superconducting Properties of Persistent Mode Joints Between NbTi Conductors.
• Pb-free superconducting solders for peristent joints between LTS wires.
• Spectromicroscopy of phase-separated iron-chalcogenide superconductors.

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  Mousavi et al featured on front cover of SUST Jan. 16