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What temperature is needed for superconductivity?
The critical temperature is 203 K (−70 °C) which would be the highest Tc ever recorded and their research suggests that other hydrogen compounds could superconduct at up to 260 K (−13 °C) which would match up with the original research of Ashcroft.
Which are the high-temperature superconductors?
The superconductor with the highest transition temperature at ambient pressure is the cuprate of mercury, barium, and calcium, at around 133 K. There are other superconductors with higher recorded transition temperatures – for example lanthanum superhydride at 250 K, but these only occur at very high pressures.
How much current can a superconductor carry?
They have to carry very high current, normally in the range of a few thousand Amperes, compared to less than 1000 Amperes in conventional termination leads.
What are typical transition temperatures for metals and high temperature superconductors?
The vast majority of the known superconductors have transition temperatures that lie between 1 K and 10 K. Of the chemical elements, tungsten has the lowest transition temperature, 0.015 K, and niobium the highest, 9.2 K.
What are high temperature and low temperature superconductors?
Low-temperature superconductors, or LTS: those whose critical temperature is below 30 K. High-temperature superconductors, or HTS: those whose critical temperature is above 30 K.
How are the low temperatures needed for superconductivity reached?
In order to reach very low temperatures – a branch of physics called “cryogenics” – we use machines that pump the heat out of an object in order to cool it. It is precisely by liquefying gases that lower and lower temperatures were reached: -183°C for oxygen, -196°C for nitrogen, -253°C for hydrogen.
At what temperature range most of the metals become superconductors?
Between 0.1 K to 10 K temperature.
What is the highest critical temperature of superconductor?
Although superconductors have been found by looking at such materials, the highest critical temperature achieved so far is 39 K in magnesium diboride. Superconductivity has been achieved at 164 K at high pressure in copper-oxide systems, but these are not conventional superconductors.