The research team verified that the electronic structure of the nickelate resembles that of
cuprate materials by taking X-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements at the Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and by performing density functional theory calculations.
More than a decade after the discovery of high - transition temperature superconductivity in
cuprate materials, its mechanism is still a matter of contentious debate.
Bozovic says his team will next try to fabricate a superconducting field - effect transistor using
their cuprate material.
Not exact matches
In the late 90's, Prof. Leggett of the University of Illinois presented a scenario for high Tc superconductivity in the
cuprates,
materials consisting primarily of copper and oxygen.
The new
materials resemble the
cuprates in some striking ways.
«It's possible that these
materials will provide a cleaner system to work with, and suddenly [the physics of] the
cuprates will become clearer,» says Hai - Hu Wen, a physicist at the Institute of Physics (IoP) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
The
material is a member of a family of copper - oxygen - based superconducting compounds - the
cuprates - that are prime candidates for numerous potential high - impact applications, including extremely efficient electricity generation, storage, and transmission across the nation's power grid.
While the basis of conventional superconductivity is understood, researchers are still exploring the theory of high - temperature superconductivity in copper - based
materials called
cuprates.
«This is the first demonstration of quasiparticle imaging and tunneling spectroscopy at individual impurity atoms in complex
materials like the
cuprate - oxides,» Davis adds.
The latest breakthrough in superconductors, which will be published March 20 in Science, answers a key question on the microscopic electronic structure of
cuprate superconductors, the most celebrated
material family in our quest for true room - temperature superconductivity.
In
cuprate superconductors, another state blocks and interacts with superconductivity: the charge - density - wave, in which the electrons assume a static pattern, different from the pattern that the
material's crystal structure defines.
Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown that copper - based superconductors, or
cuprates — the first class of
materials found to carry electricity with...