Chemistry & Materials · 1986
Possible High-Tc Superconductivity in the Ba-La-Cu-O System
J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex Müller
Overview
Bednorz and Müller discovered superconductivity in a copper-oxide ceramic at a far higher temperature than any known material, breaking the long-standing temperature ceiling and launching the field of high-temperature superconductivity.
Opened high-temperature superconductivity; won the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Key findings
Methods
Synthesis of mixed barium-lanthanum-copper oxides followed by resistivity-versus-temperature measurements that revealed a sharp drop characteristic of a superconducting transition.
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