Francesco Piazza

Name: Francesco Piazza
Title: Mr.
Institution: Heriot-Watt University, Physics Department
Address: Riccarton Campus
City, ZIP code: Edinburgh EH14 4AS
Country: UK
E-mail: f.piazza@hw.ac.uk
Web page: http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/
Interests: Thermal vibrations and anharmonicity, Theory, Superconductors, EXAFS
Keywords: High Temperature Superconductivity, Lattice Anharmonicity,
EXAFS
Brief description of the work:

Interested in the role of lattice anharmonicities in the superconducting
properties of High-Tc Superconductors and in particular in their
macroscopic mechanism. The research includes, beside analytical and numerical
simulation of model structures, performing EXAFS experiments.
Typically, samples are investigated with respect to temperature
and dopant concentration variations. In particular Debye-Waller
factors are studied.