Sentences with phrase «of cuprate»

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 this research, Lawler and his colleagues focused on a member of the cuprate class of superconductors called bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide (BSCCO).
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.
Due to the complexity of cuprates, it is difficult for researchers to study them directly to find out what properties lead to the ability to conduct current without resistance.

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We have directly determined the structural dynamics of such a nonequilibrium phase transition in a cuprate superconductor.
More than a decade after the discovery of high - transition temperature superconductivity in cuprate materials, its mechanism is still a matter of contentious debate.
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.
«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.
Physicists around the world are hailing the discovery of the new iron - and - arsenic compounds as a major advance, as the only other high - temperature superconductors are the copper - and - oxygen compounds, or cuprates, that were discovered in 1986.
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.
They proposed a new way to study a cuprate, one that no other group had tried: a powerful imaging technique developed by Davis, called sublattice imaging - which is performed using a specialized scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of determining the electronic structure in different subsets of the atoms in the crystal, the so - called sublattices.
But after three decades of ensuing research, exactly how cuprate superconductivity works remains a defining problem in the field.
In 1986, however, discovery of high - temperature superconductivity in copper oxide compounds called cuprates engendered new technological potential for the phenomenon.
Having observed this unexpected state in the cuprates and iron - pnictides, scientists were eager to see whether this unusual electronic order would also be observed in a new class of titanium - oxypnictide high - temperature superconductors discovered in 2013.
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.
«We now believe these density waves exist in all cuprates,» says Lawler, a theorist whose contribution to the research involved subtle uses of the Fourier transform, a mathematical analysis that's useful when examining amplitude patterns in waves.
We have used QMC to study magnetic properties of Ca2CuO3, an effectively one - dimensional counterpart of the famous superconducting cuprates.
Michael Lawler, assistant professor of physics at Binghamton, is part of an international team of physicists with an ongoing interest in the mysterious pseudogap phase, the phase situated between insulating and superconducting phases in the cuprate phase diagram.
K. Foyevtsova, J. T. Krogel, J. Kim, P. R. C. Kent, E. Dagotto, and F. A. Reboredo, «Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo calculations of spin superexchange in cuprates: the benchmarking case of Ca2CuO3,» Physical Review X 4 031003...
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...
HTSC cuprates: The controlled epitaxial growth of various cuprates, mainly YBCO, was studied on a variety of substrates and orientations.
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