Superconductivity

Superconducting Wire Sets New Current Capacity Record

August 17, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Superconductors have for decades spurred dreams of extraordinary technological breakthroughs, but many practical applications for them have remained out of reach. Now a new study reveals what may be the world’s highest-performing high-temperature superconducting wires yet, ones that carry 50 percent as much current as the previous record-holder. Scientists add…

May 15, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revolutionized healthcare by providing radiation-free, non-invasive 3-D medical images. However, MRI scanners often consume 25 kilowatts or more to power magnets producing magnetic fields up to 1.5 tesla. These requirements typically limits scanners’ use to specialized centers and departments in hospitals.A University of Hong Kong…

May 2, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Ferromagnetism and superconductivity don’t play well together. Ordinarily the two phenomena—ferromagnetism grants garden-variety permanent magnets their magnetic fields and superconductivity expels the internal magnetic fields of certain materials cooled below critical temperatures—seem to cancel each other out.But under uncommon circumstances, the two phenomena can behave with one another. One such…

09 Jan 24

X-rays Reveal a New Phase of Matter

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

In a scientific breakthrough that could reshape our understanding of how light interacts with matter, researchers from the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona, Spain have discovered a new phase of matter, aptly named a “light-matter hybrid”. The findings, published in Nature…

03 Aug 23

Graphene Gives 3D Graphite Twisted Powers

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Stacking two slightly askew sheets of graphene on top of each other has in recent years led to phenomenal physics—including tunable superconductivity, quantum memory, and strange new states of matter involving “puddled” clumps of electrons. The curious behavior of these systems emerge with a “twist” angle between the hexagonal pattern…

Superconducting Wire Sets New Current Capacity Record

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X-rays Reveal a New Phase of Matter

Graphene Gives 3D Graphite Twisted Powers

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