How to Use superconductivity in a Sentence

superconductivity

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• The bronze plaque from the IEEE will be mounted outside the room that once served as the superconductivity laboratory.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 19 Aug. 2019
• But scientists around the world are still hard at work uncovering the quantum secrets of superconductivity so that, one day, that dream can come true.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
• But Dias continued to claim that the superconductivity was present.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023
• Claims of room-temperature superconductivity date back to at least the year 2000, though many of them require immensely high pressures.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
• Bardeen later moved to the University of Illinois, where his work on superconductivity won him a second Nobel Prize.
  — PCMAG, 15 Dec. 2022
• And in July, researchers reported signs of superconductivity when three sheets of graphene are stacked atop each other—no twisting needed.
  — Mark Zastrow, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2019
• The researchers aren’t well known in the field, and their analysis lacks basic tests typically used to confirm superconductivity.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• One of these effects is superconductivity which comes about in certain metals when electrons form into Cooper pairs.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2020
• But a reluctance to trust results until they are replicated is not unusual in the field of superconductivity.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• Physicists have learned that temperature emerges from the motions of molecules, magnetism from the orientations of atoms, and superconductivity from the pairing up of electrons.
  — Quanta Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
• Others found fault with the way the U of R group measured the material’s magnetic behavior, a key signature of superconductivity.
  — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
• Quark matter might have even more peculiar properties: it is expected to be similar to the state of electrons in a metal, and perhaps even exhibit a type of superconductivity.
  — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
• To achieve superconductivity, the device has to be cooled to cryogenic temperatures, and wiring up many pixels into the cooling system is prohibitive.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2023
• But in superconductivity—a state of matter that, at least for now, requires very low temperatures—electrons learn to cooperate.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• Many electrical devices used in medicine and other fields can employ extremely high currents, by use of equipment cooled to temperatures at which superconductivity sets in.
  — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
• The University of Rochester is investigating the work of Ranga Dias, a physicist who claimed to have made progress toward superconductivity at room temperature.
  — Nidhi Subbaraman, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2023
• The large moiré pattern of the superlattice is both visually striking and electrically special, as the emergence of superconductivity shows.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2019
• The heating element would then heat up naturally and in turn break superconductivity locally on the bus, which is also made of superconducting wire.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2023
• To demonstrate superconductivity, the team hit three textbook benchmarks.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• Further, a co-author of the retracted paper was also the first author of a 2009 study on superconductivity that was later retracted because of altered data, per Quanta Magazine.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• The phenomenon known as superconductivity was first discovered more than 100 years ago.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• That’s more than 50 degrees hotter than the previous high-temperature superconductivity record set last year.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
• Extraordinary claims that did not survive scrutiny have long plagued the field of superconductivity.
  — Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
• Cooper pairs are necessary to get superconductivity to work.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
• An experiment published in September all but proved the origin of high-temperature superconductivity, which could help in the field’s perennial quest for an even warmer version of the phenomenon that could work at room temperature.
  — Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• High-temperature superconductivity has made a lot of progress due to the use of hydrogen-rich chemicals at extreme pressures, which can force the hydrogen into chemical structures that would otherwise have empty space.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2022
• In this way, researchers have produced superconductivity at temperatures tens of degrees above the frigid extremes usually needed.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
• The lab that produced the chemical, however, had one of its earlier papers on high-temperature superconductivity retracted due to a lack of details regarding one of its key measurements.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023
• At conferences this summer, Dias has presented claims of superconductivity in new hydride compounds.
  — Byeric Hand, science.org, 26 Sep. 2022
• So to achieve superconductivity, electrons need to easily generate and absorb phonons.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019

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