Superconductivity Summary

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Encyclopedia Articles (7)

913 words, approx. 4 pages
Superconductivity In the age of technology, with smaller and smaller electronic components being used in a growing number of applications, one pertinent application of mathematics and physics is the s... Read more
1,774 words, approx. 6 pages
"The Coldest Spot on Earth": Low Temperature Physics, Superfluidity, and the Discovery of Superconductivity Overview The Dutch experimental physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Heike Kamer... Read more
1,063 words, approx. 4 pages
Superconductivity Superconductors are materials that exhibit zero electrical resistivity and become diamagnetic when they are cooled to a sufficiently low temperature. In the superconducting state, pe... Read more
978 words, approx. 4 pages
Superconductor Technology A superconductor is a material that loses all resistance (called "zero resistance") to the flow of direct electrical current and nearly all resistance to the flow of alternat... Read more
707 words, approx. 3 pages
Superconductors and Superconductivity A superconductor is a material that conducts electrical current with no resistance. The phenomenon of superconductivity was first discovered by H. Kamerlingh Onne... Read more
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Superconductivity During the early 1900s, the Dutch physicist, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes carried out a series of studies on low temperature phenomena. The most striking result he obtained was the liquefa... Read more
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Superconductivity In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes discovered that some materials, when cooled to very low temperatures—within a few degrees of absolute zero—become superc... Read more