Science Daily February 16, 2018
An international team of researchers (Germany, USA – Brookhaven National Laboratory, UK) has detected a hidden state of electronic order in a layered material containing lanthanum, barium, copper, and oxygen (LBCO). When cooled to a certain temperature and with certain concentrations of barium, LBCO is known to conduct electricity without resistance, but now there is evidence that a superconducting state occurs above this temperature too. The discovery could help design better high-temperature superconductors… read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE