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Experimental demonstration of superconducting critical temperature increase in electromagnetic metamaterials

A recent proposal that the metamaterial approach to dielectric response engineering may increase the critical temperature of a composite superconductor-dielectric metamaterial has been tested in experiments with compressed mixtures of tin and barium titanate nanoparticles of varying composition. An...

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Autores principales: Smolyaninova, Vera N., Yost, Bradley, Zander, Kathryn, Osofsky, M. S., Kim, Heungsoo, Saha, Shanta, Greene, R. L., Smolyaninov, Igor I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25471303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07321
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Sumario:A recent proposal that the metamaterial approach to dielectric response engineering may increase the critical temperature of a composite superconductor-dielectric metamaterial has been tested in experiments with compressed mixtures of tin and barium titanate nanoparticles of varying composition. An increase of the critical temperature of the order of ΔT ~ 0.15 K compared to bulk tin has been observed for 40% volume fraction of barium titanate nanoparticles. Similar results were also obtained with compressed mixtures of tin and strontium titanate nanoparticles.