Applied potential can reversibly induce a superconducting-insulator transition in lithium titanate thin films
Monday, November 9, 2015 - 06:20
in Physics & Chemistry
"Controlling such exotic properties by applying an external field is one of the biggest continuous challenges in condensed matter physics," state Kohei Yoshimatsu and his colleagues in their recent paper. Their latest results demonstrate that in thin-film structures it is possible to control the transition between superconducting and insulating states using lithium ion electrochemical reactions.