{"id":98159,"date":"2019-11-05T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/suspended-layers-make-a-special-superconductor"},"modified":"2019-11-05T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T15:42:56","slug":"suspended-layers-make-a-special-superconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/suspended-layers-make-a-special-superconductor","title":{"rendered":"Suspended layers make a special superconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/suspended-layers-make-a-special-superconductor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In superconducting materials, an electric current will flow without any resistance. There are quite a few practical applications of this phenomenon; however, many fundamental questions remain as yet unanswered. Associate Professor Justin Ye, head of the Device Physics of Complex Materials group at the University of Groningen, studied superconductivity in a double layer of molybdenum disulfide and discovered new superconducting states. The results were published in the journal <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i> on 4 November.<\/p>\n<p>Superconductivity has been shown in monolayer crystals of, for example, molybdenum disulphide or tungsten disulfide that have a thickness of just three atoms. \u201cIn both monolayers, there is a special type of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconductivity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconductivity<\/a> in which an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/internal+magnetic+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">internal magnetic field<\/a> protects the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting state<\/a> from external magnetic fields,\u201d Ye explains. Normal superconductivity disappears when a large external magnetic field is applied, but this Ising superconductivity is strongly protected. Even in the strongest static magnetic field in Europe, which has a strength of 37 Tesla, the superconductivity in tungsten disulfide does not show any change. However, although it is great to have such strong protection, the next challenge is to find a way to control this protective effect, by applying an electric field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In superconducting materials, an electric current will flow without any resistance. There are quite a few practical applications of this phenomenon; however, many fundamental questions remain as yet unanswered. Associate Professor Justin Ye, head of the Device Physics of Complex Materials group at the University of Groningen, studied superconductivity in a double layer of molybdenum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}