Dr Boris Chesca

Email: B.Chesca@lboro.ac.uk
Room Number: W2.16 (Sir David Davies Building)
Telephone: +44 (0) 1509 223985
Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223986

Research interests

• Superconducting and magnetic thin film structures

Experiment

• Materials: cuprates, low-Tc  superconductors, magnetic materials, etc.
• Fabrication: Josephson junctions, tunnel junctions, SQUIDs
• Measurements: electric transport (dc, high frequency) and spin transport, low temperatures:  (1-300) K, magnetic fields: (0-9) T
• Physics: Josephson effect, Andreev reflection, Unconventional superconducting order parameter, spin polarization transport in junctions, Sine-Gordon non-linear dynamics, phase-locking, device physics
• Applications: qubits, spintronics

Theory

• Non-linear dynamics: Analytics: Fokker-Planck equations, thermally activated phenomena
• Non-linear dynamics: Numerics: sine-Gordon equations
• Density of states calculations

• Quantum Computing
• Terahertz superconducting and semiconducting electronics

Link to Publications Database

Responsibilities

• Programme Tutor for Physics and Mathematics, Physics and Management, Sports Science and Physics, Information Technology and Physics

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