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Tord Claeson 3811254618
Curriculum vitae – Tord Claeson
Born November 25 1938 in Varberg, Swedish citizen, married to Madeleine Bratt Claeson, four daughters.
Undergraduate Studies:
Post Graduate Studies:
Docent competence
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Göteborg Sweden, with a two year period
at University of California, San Diego. Physics. Doctoral thesis: "Superconductivity of
Binary Alloys Based on Thallium, Lead, and Bismuth". Under H P Myers (B T
Matthias at UCSD), Graduated Dec 1967
Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Jan 1968
Appointments
From 1982, Professor of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology
Visiting researcher (longer periods) at Stanford, XEROX-PARC, NTT-BRL, UCB, UCSD, Seoul Natl Univ
Honors and Commisions of trust
Gold medal, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 2004; Celsius medal, Uppsala, 1994; Jacob Wallenberg
Prize, IVA, 1985; Chalmers medal 2006. Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, Gothenburg Royal Society of Sciences and Arts, Nobel Committee of Physics (incl chair) 19892000. Foreign member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology and Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences and
Arts. Evaluator of JST, RIKEN, Japan; MESA+; MaNEP; German super universities; INFM; numerous research
programs, researchers, and projects. Advisory boards of HKUST, HongKong, NTT, Japan, RIKEN, Japan. Arranged 3
Nobel symposia.
Graduation of PhD students
Tord Claeson has graduated >30 PhDs (not counting graduates having other supervisors but for which he had large
responsibility). During the last years he has been supervisor and/or active examiner of the following graduates:
1993-12-06
Per-Åke Nilsson
1993-12-16
Yongming Zhang
1993-12-17
Göran Brorsson
1994-02-04
Martin Danerud
1994-02-03
Jonas Edstam
1994-03-31
Chen Chi Dong
1994-10-03
1995-01-13
Magnus Persson
Per Davidsson
1996-11-08
1996-11-11
HuaiRen Yi
Jaime Ramos
1997-01-08
Refael Gatt
1998-12-18
Peter Wahlgren
1999-02-22
1999-05-10
Torsten Henning
Inger Ekvall
1999-05-31
Peter Larsson
1999-06-07
Niklas Mros
2001-05-31
Matthias Krough
2001-06-06
Dennis Chouvaev
Key Components for High Tc Superconducting
Quantum Interference Device Magnetometers
Dynamics and Applications of Long Josephson
Junctions
Laser Deposited YBa2Cu3O7-x Thin Films and
Heterostructures: Growth and Characterization
Photoresponse of Patterned YBa2Cu3O7-d
Thin Films
Josephson Junctions: Oscillators and Broadband
Spectrometers at Frequencies up to 1 THz
Dynamics of Vortices and Changes in Two
Dimensional Arrays of Small Josephson Junctions
Electron Transport in Mesoscopic Nanostructures
Design and Applications of Sub-Kelvin Tunnelling
Microscopy
Step Edge Junctions in YBCO High-Tc Supercond.
YBCO biepitaxial and step edge Josephson junctions on MgO substrates. SQUID amplifier
Hg Cuprate Sueprconductors: Technological and
Conceptual Tools
The Radio Frequency Single-Electron Transistor
and the Horizon Picture for Tunneling
Charging effects in niobium nanostructures
Charge density waves and alkali metal intercalation
in layered materials
Sub-micron structures in laser ablated
Yba2Cu3O7-x thin films
Intrinsic Josephson effects in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x
single crystals: Effects of Josephson vortices on
critical current and rf induced resonances
NbN Hot Electron Bolometric Mixers for a
Quasi-Optical THz Receiver
Normal metal hot-electron microbolometer with
superconducting Andreev mirrors
Acreo
Conductus
ABB Corporate
Research
Ericsson
Microwaves
Ericsson Radar
Electronics AB
NEC
AS, Taiwan
Thin FilmsElnics
FOI
ISCO Int, Chicago
Luscent, Germany
U Wisconsin
Consulting firm
Semic foundry,
ABB
Consulting firm
Consulting firm
SRON
Ericsson
VR Bil B. CV
Tord Claeson 381125-4618
2001-09-04
Jacob Blomgren
2001-09-26
Thomas Eriksson
2002-03-22
Andrey Danilov
2004-09-17
2005-01-26
2005-01-27
Robert Gunnarsson
Khaled Khamchane
Anayesu Malisa
Post-docs in the group
Claes-Göran Granqvist 76
Marc Feldman 1979/81
Staffan Rudner 1979/81
W R McGrath 1985/87
Zdravko Ivanov 1985/6
Birgit Politt 1988/89
Dag Winkler 1989/90
Håkan Olsson 1990/95
David Haviland 1991/96
Low Noise Voltage Amplifiers Based on High Tc
IMEGO
SQUIDs
High Voltage Insulation Diagnostics Utilizing
ABB Corp Res
HTS-SQUID Based Amplifiers
Quench-Condensed Metallic Clusters Studied by
Nanofactory
Single Electron Tunneling
Magnetic Bicrystal Junctions
Chalmers
Growth and Characterization of Non-linear Ferroelectric Heterostructures
Magnesium Diboride and Ca-Doped YBaCuO: Thin Films and Devices
Post-docs
Oliver Kuhn
Radoslav Chakalov
Xiong Xuming 96/99
Huang Ming-Qiang
Zdravko Ivanov 1988/95
Floriana Lombardi 96/98
Yoshinao Mizugaki 99/00
Serge Charlebois 02/03
Yuichi Harada
Students performing their research
in grp but graduated fr other univ
Vladimir Antonov
Rais Chaikhaidarov
Philippe Kommisinski
>10 appointed professors with
decisive merits from work in the
group as students or post-docs
Research description
The research interest of Tord Claeson is focused on tunneling properties of solids, in particular superconducting tunneling
and mesoscopic systems. He has been a (co-)author of > 350 papers. Interests:
• superconductivity of metals and alloys (order/disorder, electron structure, new superconductors, etc)
• superconducting tunneling, including phonon spectroscopy of alloys
• proximity effects, gapless superconductivity
• amorphous and ultrathin films
• magnetic impurities, Kondo effect
• Josephson effects incl. coupled oscillators and parametric amplifiers
• SIS mixers for low noise mm wave receivers, arrays of junctions
• long Josephson junctions, solitons, fluxon generator and transistor
• nanometer fabrication and physics
• single electron tunneling phenomena, qp & pair oscillations, environment
• applications of SET
• Aharonov-Bohm effects, phase dependent transport in mesoscopic structures
• superconducting mesoscopics, 2DEG/superconductor, field effects, three terminal devices
• high temperature superconductivity, basic properties and electronic applications
• intrinsic Josephson junctions for pseudogap and mechanism studies
• artificial grain boundary Josephson junctions (bi-crystal, bi-epitaxial, step edge, ramp edge)
• SQUIDs, basic properties and applications in scanning SQUID, low noise amplifier, pico-voltmeter, gravity
gradiometer
• high frequency devices, HTS bolometers, non-equilibrium phenomena, hot electron devices
• superconducting π-junctions and qu-bits, Andreev effects
• rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) superconducting logic circuits
• EXAFS of solids and liquids
• charge density waves
• ferroelectric films, multilayers of FE/SC/normal (oxide) metal, nucleation and growth, tunable filter
• oxide interfaces, electrical transport and local structure, LAO/STO
• transport in HTS grain boundary junctions
• graphene properties and applications
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