To make this material superconduct, the researchers used a method that they have pioneered on other polymers over the past year: they built it into a so-called field-effect transistor. |
The alloys used in medical imaging superconduct only at supercold temperatures, about 450 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. |
National Laboratory, produced the first 10-meter-long ribbons that can superconduct electricity at 100 amperes per centimeter of ribbon width. |
That led to a rush to find similar materials that would superconduct at even higher temperatures. |
The gyroscope rotors are covered with a layer of niobium, a metal that will superconduct when it is cooled by liquid helium. |
But K. Alex Müller and J. Georg Bednorz at the Zurich laboratory of I. B. M. believed that a ceramic material might be able to superconduct at warmer temperatures. |