Seok-Woo receives the Interdisciplinary Multi-Investigator Materials Proposal (IMMP, $20,000) award from the Institute of Materials Science, UConn.
The award will support his research project entitled “Cryogenic Nano-Electro-Magneto-Mechanical Measurement for Strain Engineering Study on Advanced Functional and Quantum materials”. In this project, Seok-Woo’s research group is going to measure the electrical and magnetic properties of high temperature superconductors under elastic deformation and to control their superconducting critical temperature as a function of strain. This innovation will be realized by merging two entirely different fields of science: nanomechanics and superconductivity. This project will be conducted with Dr. Ilya Sochnikov in Department of Physics.