by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 34)
Figure 1.
Sketch of the typical superconducting phase diagram of a Type-I superconductor
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Figure 1.
Sketch of the typical superconducting phase diagram of a Type-II superconductor
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As of 2020, basically means "liquid nitrogen temperature", which is much cheaper than liquid helium.
Figure 1.
Timeline of superconductivity from 1900 to 2015
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Upside: superconducting above 92K, which is above the 77K of liquid nitrogen, and therefore much much cheaper to obtain and maintain than liquid helium.
Downside: it is brittle, so how do you make wires out of it? Still, can already be used in certain circuits, e.g. high temperature SQUID devices.
Discovered in 1988, the first high-temperature superconductor which did not contain a rare-earth element.

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