Pave the Way for Novel High-Temperature Superconductors : Rongying Jin (ORNL)
Abstract Biography Host: Prof. Shuheng Pan 634 S&R 1 - 4PM
Superconductivity has been at the forefront of research in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, and Electrical Engineering, as superconductors hold great promise for technological applications. Although it has attracted the best minds to struggle with the fundamental understanding, we do not yet know the pathways toward the discovery of room – temperature superconductors. In my talk, I will discuss a series of superconductors that possess layered structures and unconventional superconducting mechanisms, including cuprates, Sr2RuO4, NaxCoO2⋅1.3H2O, and Fe - based compounds.
Dr. Rongying Jin is an experimental condensed matter physicist, holding a joint appointment with both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee. She received her B.S. from Shanghai University in China and Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). After three years of postdoctoral research at Penn State University, she joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Research Scientist and later was appointed as an Associate Professor in the Physics Department of the University of Tennessee. Her research focuses on the development of novel complex materials with intriguing physical properties, such as new phases that exist on the edge of instabilities (unconventional superconductivity, quantum critical phenomena, heavy-Fermion behavior, and thermoelectricity). Her research work has resulted in more than 115 articles in refereed journals including Science, Nature, Nature Physics, and Physical Review Letters. These papers have been cited more than 1500 times.