Advances on Ferroics and Superconducting Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The emergence of high-temperature superconductors with robust cabling technologies is essential for the development of high-magnetic-field applications. This technology is leading the search for clean and lossless energy production, transmission, grid protection, and transportation systems that are demanded by the net-zero era. However, today, the number of superconducting materials that can be used for these purposes is limited, and in broader terms, their physical properties are commonly assisted by a large set of other materials enabling the engineering application of superconductors. New discoveries are taking place where the competition between diverse ferroic phases and superconductivity seems to play a major role, not only in the search of higher superconducting transition temperatures, but in the process of manufacturing more stable superconducting frames and other applications. Thus, this Special Issue aims to provide a key platform for new research on how superconductors and ferroics are both contributing to the development of new technologies, seeking to meet the global net zero target by 2050.

This Special Issue welcomes articles, perspectives, review papers, and theoretical or experimental studies on multifunctional systems that use superconductors, as well as the development of further applications in hybrid systems involving ferromagnets and ferroelectrics. Microscopic and macroscopic studies on the physical properties of highly textured superconducting perovskites, iron-based superconductors, multiferroic oxides, or other ferroics with direct engineering applications in the energy sector are all welcome.

Dr. Harold Steven Ruiz
Guest Editor

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• superconductivity
• iron-based superconductors
• ferroics
• multifunctional devices
• functional oxides
• superconducting applications
• competing order
• ferroelectricity
• ferromagnetism