Electrons are not enough: Cuprate superconductors defy convention
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 07:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —To engineers, it's a tale as old as time: Electrical current is carried through materials by flowing electrons. But physicists at the University of Illinois and the University of Pennsylvania found that for copper-containing superconductors, known as cuprates, electrons are not enough to carry the current.