Prof. Dr. Michael Faley
Permanent Scientific Staff at ER-C-1 (Physics of Nanoscale Systems)
Contact
Office: Room 100b Building 04.6
Phone: +49 2461 61-4366
Fax: +49 2461 61-6444
Email: m.faley@fz-juelich.de
Webpage: https://www.fz-juelich.de/profile/faley_m
Research Interests:
- Preparation of superconducting and ferromagnetic thin-film heterostructures and study of their microstructural and electron transport properties.
- Step-edge high-Tc Josephson junctions, multilayer superconducting flux transformers and DC SQUIDs on the basis of superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films. Low-Tc nanobridge Josephson junctions and nanoSQUIDs.
- Superconducting electronics, especially the development and applications of Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) for biomagnetic, geomagnetic and magnetic microscopy measurements.
Current research studies focus on physics, technology and of nanobridge Josephson junctions and especially nanoSQUIDs for magnetic microscopy. The fabrication of superconducting and ferromagnetic nanostructures for experiments in a transmission electron microscope is also an actual topic of current activity. To date, I have produced over 200 scientific publications and 10 patents in the fields of superconducting electronics and epitaxial metal-oxide thin film heterostructures.
Education:
2006 Habilitation in Experimental Physics. Thesis: “Thin film heterostructures of oxide superconductors and their application for superconducting quantum interference devices”.
1985-1988 PhD in Physical Electronics at IRE RAS. Thesis: "Electron-electron interaction and nonequilibrium superconductivity in disordered metal films”.
1976-1982 Diploma in Physics with Honours at MIPT. Profession: Engineer-Physicist.
1976 Finished Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, awarded Gold Medal for academic excellence.
Professional experience:
2021-2023 Guest editor for Special Issue of Electronics on "Nanofabrication of Superconducting Circuits":
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/NSC_electronics
since 2014 Technical Editor of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
since 2013 Visiting Professor position at MIPT
since 1999 Permanent Scientific Staff at Peter Grünberg Institute 5 (Microstructure Research), Research Centre Jülich
1991-1999 Invited Researcher at IFF-IMF, Research Centre Jülich
1987-1991 Scientific Associate at IRE RAS
1984-1988 PhD student at IRE RAS
1982-1984 Laboratory assistant at Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems RAS.
Awards:
2012 IOP Vacuum Group Poster Prize at the 3rd Vacuum Symposium Ricoh Arena, Coventry, U.K., 17-18 October 2012.
1994-1995 Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
1991-1993 Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Selected publications
1. M. I. Faley, “Reproducible step-edge Josephson junction”, Patent US 9666783 B2 (granted 30.05.2017), DE 102012006825 B4 (granted 26.02.2015) and Patent EP 2834860 B1 (granted 30.12.2015).
2. M. I. Faley, C. L. Jia, U. Poppe, L. Houben, and K. Urban, "Meandering of the grain boundary and d-wave effects in bicrystal Josephson junctions" Superconductor Science and Technology 19, S195-S199, (2006). DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/19/5/S06
3. M. I. Faley, J. Dammers, Y. V. Maslennikov, J. F. Schneiderman, D. Winkler, V. P. Koshelets, N. J. Shah, and R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, “High-Tc SQUID biomagnetometers”, Superconductor Science and Technology 30, 083001 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/aa73ad
4. M. I. Faley, P Reith, C D Satrya, V S Stolyarov, B Folkers, A A Golubov, H Hilgenkamp, and R E Dunin-Borkowski “MoRe/YBa2Cu3O7-x Josephson junctions and p-loops”, Superconductor Science and Technology 33 (2020) 044005 (12pp). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/ab7053.
5. M. I. Faley, T. Bikulov, V. Bosboom, A. A. Golubov, and R. E. Dunin-Borkowski “Bulk nanomachining of cantilevers with Nb nanoSQUIDs based on nanobridge Josephson junctions”, Superconductor Science and Technology 34 035014 (8pp) (2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/abda5c
6. M. I. Faley, Y. Liu, and R. E. Dunin-Borkowski “Titanium Nitride as a New Prospective Material for NanoSQUIDs and Superconducting Nanobridge Electronics” Nanomaterials 11, 466 (12pp) (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020466
7. M I Faley, H Fiadziushkin, B Frohn, P Schüffelgen, and R E Dunin-Borkowski “TiN nanobridge Josephson junctions and nanoSQUIDs on SiN-buffered Si“, Superconductor Science and Technology 35 065001 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/ac64cd
8. M. I. Faley and R. E. Dunin-Borkowski “A Self-Flux-Biased NanoSQUID with Four NbN-TiN-NbN Nanobridge Josephson Junctions” Electronics 11 1704 (12pp) (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111704
9. Michael I. Faley, Joshua Williams, Penghan Lu and R. E. Dunin-Borkowski “TiN-NbN-TiN and Permalloy Nanostructures for Applications in Transmission Electron Microscopy”. Electronics, 12(9), 2144 (14pp) (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12092144
10. Faley M.I. (2024) Nanodimensional superconducting quantum interference devices. In: Chakraborty, Tapash (eds.) Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics, 2e, vol. 2, pp. 702-711. Oxford: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90800-9.00161-X
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