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Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 28

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer ...


Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...


Superconductivity: Which one of these is not like the other?

Superconductivity: Which one of these is not like the other?

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Superconductivity appears to rely on very different mechanisms in two varieties of iron-based superconductors. The insight comes from research groups that are making bold statements about the correct description ...


Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

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

(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 ...


Physicists offer new theory for iron compounds

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An international team of physicists from the United States and China this week offered a new theory to both explain and predict the complex quantum behavior of a new class of high-temperature superconductors.


Superconductivity: the new high critical temperature superconductors

Superconductivity: the new high critical temperature superconductors

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) by a team led by professor Francesc Illas of the University of Barcelona's Department of Physical Chemistry and di ...


Physicists discover surprising variation in superconductors

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicists have discovered that several high-temperature superconductors display patchwork quilt-like variations at the atomic scale, a surprising finding that could help scientists understand a new class ...


Squashing Silane into Metal

Squashing Silane into Metal

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Squeeze it hard enough and hydrogen, the most abundant and lightest element in our Universe, strangely takes on a metallic nature. During this state, as it loses hold of its electrons, hydrogen ...


Breakthrough experiment on high-temperature superconductors

Breakthrough experiment on high-temperature superconductors

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (71) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- New information about the metallic state from which high temperature superconductivity emerges, has been revealed in an innovative experiment performed at the University of Bristol.


Room temperature superconductivity: One step closer to the Holy Grail of physics

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (116) | comments 29

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time identified a key component to unravelling the mystery of room temperature superconductivity, according to a paper published in today's edition of the scientific ...