Transport and proximity effect in unconventional ferromagnet/superconductor heterostructures

Abstract

This dissertation collects results of my own work about heterostructures with unconventional ferromagnets and superconductors. It both introduces the matter by reviewing part of the existing literature and it includes original results. In particular charge and spin transport in ferromagnet/superconductor bilayer, Josephson effect in superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions, and proximity effect in ferromagnet/triplet superconductor structures are examined. All work has been supervised by Prof. Canio Noce and Dr. Mario Cuoco from Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno. I have also benefited from collaborations with Prof. Alfonso Romano and Dr. Paola Gentile from the same department. Part of the work has been supervised by Prof. Asle Sudbø and Prof. Jacob Linder from Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. I have also benefited from collaboration with Henrik Enoksen from the same department. [edited by author]