Twisters turn up the current in superconductors
Vortices in resistance-free current flow could explain a strange current effect
Superconductivity: it’s in the genes
The very stuff we're made of can act as a superconductor
Superconducting tape promises more efficient energy
Researchers at the laboratory first created a superconducting tape five years ago. They used a process known as Ion Beam Assisted Deposition (IBAD) to create a film of the ceramic superconductor yttri...
Buckyball scores high-temperature goal
Carbon-60 is in a class of organic materials known as fullerenes, which are insulators. Scientists first generated superconductivity – current flow without resistance below a certain ‘tran...
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Superconductivity leaves the lab
Superconducting magnets are a common tool in many physics and chemistry laboratories, and are used in a host of research applications, including solid-state physics, nuclear-magnetic-resonance chemist...
Superconductivity: getting warmer
The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in 1986 raised hopes that loss-free superconducting power cables would be able to operate at liquid nitrogen temperatures. Previously, superconducto...
Breaking through the quantum limit
Andrey Geim of the Universities of Nijmegen and Manchester, and co-workers from Russia, Belgium and the UK, measured the amount of flux entering micron-sized aluminium discs, where edge effects are im...
Organic superconductivity
Hendrik Schon, Christian Kloc and Batlogg investigated three different acenes: anthracene (which contains three linked rings), tetracene (four) and pentacene (five). The crystals are normally insulati...
Superconducting gains
The device has three electrodes: a niobium injector electrode; a common electrode that consists of a layer of niobium and a layer of aluminium; and a niobium detector electrode. The electrodes are sep...
Schrodinger’s cat comes into view
In his original thought experiment, Schrodinger imagined that a cat is locked in a box, along with a radioactive atom that is connected to a vial containing a deadly poison. If the atom decays, it cau...
