News tagged with copper oxide

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Key advance in understanding 'pseudogap' phase in high-Tc superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have been trying for some 20 years to understand why the low temperature at which copper-oxide superconductors carry current with no resistance can't be increased to be closer to ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Researchers report breakthrough in narrow pitch interconnects

Imec researchers set major step towards 20nm half pitch interconnects with the realization of electrically functional copper lines embedded into silicon oxide using a spacer-defined double patterning approach. ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Improvement of superconductors within reach

An international group of physicists from the University of Augsburg in Germany, the University of Florida in Gainesville, and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in creating ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Superconductor breakthrough could power new advances (w/ Video)

 (PhysOrg.com) -- The first batch of a new range of powerful superconductors which could revolutionise the production of machines like hospital MRI scanners and protect the national grid has been developed ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Jul 09, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (31) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

For lambs, a pasture a week keeps blood suckers away

Deworming lambs can be minimized with rotational grazing and checking the animals' eye color, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher modernizes US power grid

Although the U.S. electric power industry is one of the greatest engineering marvels of the 20th century, aging technology and an increase in demand create problems for the electricity infrastructure that need to be fixed. ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Spinons -- confined like quarks

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 2

PhD student solves decade-long mystery of magnetism

(PhysOrg.com) -- A PhD student from the London Centre for Nanotechnology has won a prize for solving a decade-long mystery central to understanding modern magnetic systems.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (33) | comments 3

Magnet Lab to Investigate Promising Superconductor

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Applied Superconductivity Center at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has received $1.2 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to understand and enhance a new form of superconducting ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by physicists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have resolved a decade-long puzzle that is set to have huge implications ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 7

Safer, Denser Acetylene Storage in an Organic Framework

(PhysOrg.com) -- The century-old challenge of transporting acetylene may have been solved in principle by a team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A NIST research ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Superconductivity: Which one of these is not like the other?

Superconductivity appears to rely on very different mechanisms in two varieties of iron-based superconductors. The insight comes from research groups that are making bold statements about the correct description ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Red-hot research could lead to new materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent experiments to create a fast-reacting explosive by concocting it at the nanoscopic level could result in more spectacular firework displays. But more impressive to the Missouri University ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Study Yields Surprising New Insight into High-Temp Superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, an international group of researchers discovered that the underlying mechanism producing high-temperature superconductivity in a widely studied class of copper-oxygen-based superconductors may be ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 135 feature

Superconductivity: the new high critical temperature superconductors

(PhysOrg.com) -- The paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) by a team led by professor Francesc Illas of the University of Barcelona's Department of Physical Chemistry and di ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0