News tagged with iron arsenide

Researchers find magnetic link to high-temperature superconductivity

Researchers from the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint SLAC-Stanford institute, have seen strong indications of a relationship between the superconductive and magnetic properties ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Quantum fluctuations are key in superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- New experiments on a recently discovered class of iron-based superconductors suggest that the ability of their electrons to conduct electricity without resistance is directly connected with the magnetic properties ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 90 | with audio podcast

Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 135 feature




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A chemical detour to quantum criticality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists and chemists use different techniques to study essentially the same thing — the nature and behavior of matter. Usually the particular path is of little consequence, because ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Room-temperature spintronic computers? Silicon spin transistors heat up and spins last longer

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah researchers built "spintronic" transistors and used them to align the magnetic "spins" of electrons for a record period of time in silicon chips at room temperature. The ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Technology uses auto exhaust heat to create electricity, boost mileage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are creating a system that harvests heat from an engine's exhaust to generate electricity, reducing a car's fuel consumption.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

NASA completes critical design review of one Landsat instrument

NASA engineers have begun building hardware for a new Landsat satellite instrument that helps monitor water consumption — an important capability in the U.S. West where precipitation is sparse and water rights are allocated ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Template engineering demonstrates possibilities of new superconducting material

(PhysOrg.com) -- A breakthrough approach by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers and their collaborators in fabricating thin films of a new superconducting material has yielded promising results: The material has a ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Electrons on the brink: Fractal patterns may be key to semiconductor magnetism (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as the heartbeats of today's electronic devices depend on the ability to switch the flow of electricity in semiconductors on and off with lightning speed, the viability of the "spintronic" ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Spin polarization achieved in room temperature silicon

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group in The Netherlands has achieved a first: injection of spin-polarized electrons in silicon at room temperature. This has previously been observed only at extremely low temperatures, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 0 weblog

Fujitsu Develops Technology for Low-Temperature Full-Service Direct Formation of Graphene Transistors on Large-Scale Sub

Fujitsu Laboratories today announced, as a world first, the development of a novel technology for forming graphene transistors directly on the entire surface of large-scale insulating substrates at low temperatures ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Iron-arsenic superconductors in class of their own

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all other ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Putting the Pressure on Iron-Based Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditionally, magnetism and superconductivity don't mix. For more than 20 years, the only known superconductors that worked at so-called "high" temperatures (above 30 K, or about -406 degrees ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3


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