{"id":214124,"date":"2025-05-16T05:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-superconducting-diode-researchers-successfully-control-the-direction-of-current-in-a-superconductor"},"modified":"2025-05-16T05:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:14:58","slug":"a-superconducting-diode-researchers-successfully-control-the-direction-of-current-in-a-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-superconducting-diode-researchers-successfully-control-the-direction-of-current-in-a-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"A superconducting diode: Researchers successfully control the direction of current in a superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-superconducting-diode-researchers-successfully-control-the-direction-of-current-in-a-superconductor3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would happen if you combined the unparalleled efficiency of a superconductor with the flexibility and controllability of a semiconductor? Thanks to a new breakthrough in quantum materials, we may be getting an answer soon.<\/p>\n<p>In an article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42005-025-02118-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Communications Physics<\/i>, a multi-institutional research team led by The University of Osaka announces the successful observation of the so-called superconducting diode effect in an Fe(Se, Te)\/FeTe heterostructure. The paper is titled \u201cA scaling relation of vortex-induced rectification effects in a superconducting thin-film heterostructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article describes a series of experiments in which the material developed a preference for current to flow in a particular direction, a phenomenon known as rectification, under a broad range of temperature and magnetic fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if you combined the unparalleled efficiency of a superconductor with the flexibility and controllability of a semiconductor? Thanks to a new breakthrough in quantum materials, we may be getting an answer soon. In an article published in Communications Physics, a multi-institutional research team led by The University of Osaka announces the successful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214124","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=214124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}