Superconductors to get a low temperature boost (-180°C) from Laser-based refrigerator
University of New Mexico researchers have surpassed themselves in a laser-based cooling project. Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae (et al.) and other researchers from the University of Pisa, Italy and the Los Alamos Institute created the world's first all-solid-state cryocooler, that can be used from cooling infrared sensors to superconductors.
New Material Promises Fast Energy Saving Electronics
Scientists developed a new one-atom thick material that allows fast movement of electrical charges. It can boost performance of electronics, while saving power.
Scientists from...
High Temperature Superconducting Magnets Just Got 45% More Power
Engineers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Florida State University are closer than ever to launching a new generation of high-field magnet, being 3,000 times stronger than an ordinary refrigerator magnet and will be able to generate a field about 45% more powerful than the strongest superconducting magnet currently available.
Scientists Explain Limitations of High Temperature Superconductors in High Currents
Since their discovery in late 1980s, superconductors were thought to revolutionize everything that had an electric current flowing, but allowing it to pass through more easily, and with much less heat produced. Ultra-efficient magnetic trains had been envisioned, then, but ...
Superconductors Could Increase Wind Turbine Efficiency
One of the great limitations in any electrical or electronic system is resistance. Electrical resistance, measured in “Ω” or ohms, is not a constant,...
Solar Cells and Supercapacitors Improved by New 3D Germanium Sulfide Nanostructure
Next-generation supercapacitors and solar cells could be improved by a newly-created germanium sulfide (GeS) nanomaterial resembling a shish-kebab.
North Carolina State University researchers put up...
Superconductivity Could Be Reinvented
Rice University scientists conducted a study on superconductivity. Physicists Pengcheng Dai and Andriy Nevidimoskyy, with some of their colleagues, used simulations and neutron scattering experiments that show that the atomic structure of materials to reveal tiny distortions of the crystal lattice in a so-called iron pnictide compound of sodium, iron, nickel, and arsenic.
Germanium Hydride to Become High Temperature Viable Superconductor
The evolution of energy storage is not enough if we don't also evolve the energy transportation methods. That's why superconductors are not only good for us, but are also necessary in some applications where heat and energy loss, in general, have no place.
High-Performance Superconductors Developed, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Superconductors typically find their way into power generation and transmission applications, where losses are unacceptable or great amounts of current are needed to flow.
When...
Room Temperature Superconductors: a Step Away
Imagine your television set working for 0.0001Watt, or your electric car charged by the Sun as you go. Imagine almost never ending batteries powering cool engines, no power lost through heat.
