{"id":200844,"date":"2024-12-06T05:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-reveal-superconductivity-secrets-of-an-iron-based-material"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:40:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:40:27","slug":"scientists-reveal-superconductivity-secrets-of-an-iron-based-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-reveal-superconductivity-secrets-of-an-iron-based-material","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reveal superconductivity secrets of an iron-based material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-reveal-superconductivity-secrets-of-an-iron-based-material2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have uncovered the atomic-scale mechanics that enhance superconductivity in an iron-based material, a finding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08118-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> recently in Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Using advanced spectroscopy instruments housed in the UC Irvine Materials Research Institute, the researchers were able to image atom vibrations and thereby observe new phonons\u2014quasiparticles that carry thermal energy\u2014at the interface of an iron selenide (FeSe) ultrathin film layered on a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/strontium+titanate\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">strontium titanate<\/a> (STO) substrate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimarily emerging from the out-of-plane vibrations of oxygen atoms at the interface and in apical oxygens in STO, these phonons couple with electrons due to the spatial overlap of electron and phonon wave functions at the interface,\u201d said lead author Xiaoqing Pan, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering, Henry Samueli Endowed Chair in Engineering and IMRI director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have uncovered the atomic-scale mechanics that enhance superconductivity in an iron-based material, a finding published recently in Nature. Using advanced spectroscopy instruments housed in the UC Irvine Materials Research Institute, the researchers were able to image atom vibrations and thereby observe new phonons\u2014quasiparticles that carry thermal energy\u2014at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}