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Sci Rep. 2014 Dec 04;4:7321. doi: 10.1038/srep07321.

Experimental demonstration of superconducting critical temperature increase in electromagnetic metamaterials.

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Vera N Smolyaninova, Bradley Yost, Kathryn Zander, M S Osofsky, Heungsoo Kim, Shanta Saha, R L Greene, Igor I Smolyaninov

Affiliations

  1. Department of Physics Astronomy and Geosciences, Towson University, 8000 York Rd., Towson, MD 21252, USA.
  2. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375, USA.
  3. Department of Physics, Center for Nanophysics &Advanced Materials, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
  4. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

PMID: 25471303 PMCID: PMC4255178 DOI: 10.1038/srep07321

Abstract

A recent proposal that the metamaterial approach to dielectric response engineering may increase the critical temperature of a composite superconductor-dielectric metamaterial has been tested in experiments with compressed mixtures of tin and barium titanate nanoparticles of varying composition. An increase of the critical temperature of the order of ΔT ~ 0.15 K compared to bulk tin has been observed for 40% volume fraction of barium titanate nanoparticles. Similar results were also obtained with compressed mixtures of tin and strontium titanate nanoparticles.

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