An international team led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University has detected new features in the electronic behavior of
a copper oxide material that may...
In the experiments, researchers used a technique called angle - resolved photoemission spectroscopy, or ARPES, to knock electrons out of
a copper oxide material, one of a handful of materials that superconduct at relatively high temperatures — although they still have to be chilled to at least minus 135 degrees Celsius.
Not exact matches
«In solid - state
materials like
copper oxides, there are many different effects and impurities that make these
materials difficult to study.
This was achieved by coupling it with a
material called praseodymium cerium
copper oxide (PCCO).
The team is now using this strategy, called a Metal - Embedded - in - Oxygen - Matrix (MEOM), to predict the best
oxide material — either
copper or something new — to place next to the neutral
copper strips to achieve the fastest reaction.
In their native state, even at super chilly temperatures, the
copper -
oxide materials are actually strong insulators.
In the
copper -
oxide material, instead of raising the temperature, the scientists raise the level of doping to «melt» the density waves at a particular «critical point.»
Disappearing stripes linked with free electron movement: Scientists used a precision microscope to simultaneously explore electrons» arrangements and movements as charge carriers called holes were added to transform a
copper -
oxide material from an insulator to a superconductor.
Right now, even these «high - temperature»
copper -
oxide materials operate as superconductors only when cooled to below -100 degrees Celsius.
In this case, the solid
material was a
copper oxide, a member of the transition - metal
oxide family of
materials, which have wide - ranging applications for their electronic, magnetic and catalytic properties.
The superconducting
materials are ceramics composed of complex
oxides of
copper and other metals.
Until now they have been difficult to make, particularly in large quantities, because they require precise ratios of raw
materials containing metals such as bismuth, strontium and
copper oxides to be ground together, before being heated to high temperatures to produce batches of about 10 grams of superconductor.
«Instead of searching for new single - electron antiferromagnetic insulators like
copper oxide to make high - temperature superconductors, maybe we should be searching for new highly magnetic, metallic
materials that have properties like iron but in an orbitally selective arrangement,» Davis said.
The project was conceived by researchers from MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), and aims within three years to develop superconducting electromagnets from a newly available
material - a steel tape coated with an yttrium - barium -
copper oxide compound.
Our joint theory - experiment effort has successfully identified new earth - abundant
copper and manganese vanadate complex
oxides that meet highly demanding requirements for photoanodes, substantially expanding the known space of such
materials.
Employing a strategic combination of detailed electronic structure calculations, combinatorial
materials synthesis, and both traditional and high - throughout photoelectrochemistry measurements, the JCAP team identified earth - abundant
copper and manganese vanadate complex
oxides that meet highly demanding requirements for photoanodes: low band gap energy, stability under highly oxidizing conditions, and valence band alignment with respect to OER.
For example, a particle with a shell of
copper oxide its aluminium core reduces carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide faster and more efficiently than particles made of either
material alone.
The superconducting
material itself is typically an yttrium - barium -
copper -
oxide or similar compound,» explains Dr. Michael Koblischka, one of the research scientists in Hartmann «s group.
It contains montmorillonite, decomposed plant
material such as kelp and seaweed, magnesium, calcium, potassium, dolomite, silica, manganese, phosporous, silicon,
copper, selenium, and up to nine mineral
oxides.