News tagged with superconductors
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Taking the juice for granted: Powering American cities in the new century
Barring the occasional thunderstorm, most Americans take the electric current behind their power buttons for granted, and assume the juice will be there when they're ready to fire up an appliance or favorite ...
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Hydrogen-rich Material Promises Advances in Energy Transmission, Fuel Storage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, a joint institute of SLAC and Stanford University, have produced a hydrogen-rich alloy that could provide insight into ...
Aug 20, 2009 |
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Research pokes holes in Hubbard model: Could help solve enigma of high-temperature superconductors
New UBC research has literally and figuratively poked holes in single-band Hubbard physics--a model that has been used to predict and calculate the behavior of high-temperature superconductors for 20 years.
Aug 19, 2009 |
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LHC to run at 3.5 TeV for early part of 2009-2010 run rising later
CERN 's Large Hadron Collider will initially run at an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam when it starts up in November this year. This news comes after all tests on the machine's high-current electrical connections ...
Aug 06, 2009 |
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Fire Meets Ice: Superhot And Supercold Remarkably Similar In The 'Fermion' World (w/ Video)
Trapping and cooling a microscopic clump of gas and then suddenly releasing it would normally result in the gas rapidly expanding outward in all directions, like a spherical bubble.
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Conquering one of the biggest challenges in the study of high-temperature (high-Tc) superconductors, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have grown ...
Aug 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
Jul 13, 2009 |
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New insights, and a new angle, on high-temperature superconductivity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Princeton-led research team has revealed surprising information about how electron behavior influences the conduction of electricity in a class of high-temperature superconductors. An increased ...
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Researchers discovers how strain at grain boundaries suppresses high-temperature superconductivity
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a reduction in mechanical strain at the boundaries of crystal grains can significantly improve the performance ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Thinnest superconducting metal created
A superconducting sheet of lead only two atoms thick, the thinnest superconducting metal layer ever created, has been developed by physicists at The University of Texas at Austin.
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Europium discovery: New element found to be a superconductor
(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 92 naturally occurring elements, add another to the list of those that are superconductors. James S. Schilling, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University ...
May 13, 2009 |
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Frozen helium-4 may be an unusual 'superglass'
(PhysOrg.com) -- When helium is cooled to around 4 degrees above absolute zero, it turns liquid. Make it a couple of degrees cooler, and it becomes a "superfluid" that flows without resistance from its container, ...
May 01, 2009 |
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Iron-arsenic superconductors in class of their own
Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all other ...
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Researchers Explore Magnetic Properties of Iron-Based Superconductors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have proposed theoretical models to explain the normal magnetic properties in iron-based superconductors. This research was published in the December ...
Apr 13, 2009 |
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New material could help cut future energy losses
Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Durham University have developed a new material to further understanding of how superconductors could be used to transmit electricity to built-up areas and reduce global energy ...
Mar 19, 2009 |
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