Superconductivity
News Releases
Magnesium Protects Tantalum, a Promising Material for Making Qubits
Monday, February 5, 2024
First Direct Visualization of a Zero-Field Pair Density Wave
Monday, July 3, 2023
'Charge Density Wave' Linked to Atomic Distortions in Would-be Superconductor
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Brookhaven Lab Physicist John Tranquada Elected NAS Member
Monday, May 15, 2023
Mapping the Electronic States in an Exotic Superconductor
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Magnetism Meets Topology on a Superconductor's Surface
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Electrons Break Rotational Symmetry in Exotic Low-Temp Superconductor
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Scientists See Energy Gap Modulations in a Cuprate Superconductor
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Scientists Observe Superconductivity in Meteorites
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Electron (or 'Hole') Pairs May Survive Effort to Kill Superconductivity
Friday, June 14, 2019
Scientists Enter Unexplored Territory in Superconductivity Search
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Scientists Pinpoint Energy Flowing Through Vibrations in Superconducting Crystals
Friday, April 27, 2018
Bringing a Hidden Superconducting State to Light
Friday, February 16, 2018
Strange Electrons Break the Crystal Symmetry of High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Electron Orbitals May Hold Key to Unifying Concept of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Brookhaven Scientists Study Role of 'Electrolyte Gating' in Functional Oxide Materials
Monday, July 3, 2017
Laser Pulses Help Scientists Tease Apart Complex Electron Interactions
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Scientists Find Static "Stripes" of Electrical Charge in Copper-Oxide Superconductor
Friday, October 14, 2016
Enhancing the Superconducting Properties of an Iron-Based Material
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Scientists Uncover the Origin of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Copper-Oxide Compound
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Ultra-fast X-ray Lasers Illuminate Elusive Atomic Spins
Monday, May 9, 2016
Elusive State of Superconducting Matter Discovered after 50 Years
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Scientists Study the Insulator-Superconductor Transition of Copper-Oxide Compound in Fine Detail
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Technologist Craig Barrett and World Renowned Physicist Séamus Davis Awarded Prestigious Science Foundation Ireland St. Patrick's Day Science Medal
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Four Brookhaven Lab Researchers Elected as 2015 American Physical Society Fellows
Monday, February 1, 2016
Robert M. Konik Named Chair of Brookhaven Lab's Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department
Monday, January 25, 2016
2015's Top 10 Scientific Advances at Brookhaven National Laboratory
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Quantum Spin Could Create Unstoppable, One-Dimensional Electron Waves
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Unraveling the Complex, Intertwined Electron Phases in a Superconductor
Monday, October 26, 2015
Two Spin Liquids Square Off in an Iron-Based Superconductor
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Visualizing How Radiation Bombardment Boosts Superconductivity
Friday, May 22, 2015
2014's Top-10 Scientific Achievements at Brookhaven Lab
Monday, January 5, 2015
Unusual Electronic State Found in New Class of Unconventional Superconductors
Monday, December 8, 2014
Elusive Quantum Transformations Found Near Absolute Zero
Monday, September 15, 2014
Brookhaven Physicist Ivan Bozovic Elected to European Academy of Sciences
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Funding Renewed for Brookhaven's Center for Emergent Superconductivity, a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center
Friday, June 20, 2014
Three Brookhaven Physicists Receive DOE Early Career Research Program Funding
Monday, May 12, 2014
Scientists Find Solution to Two Long-Standing Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Scientists Capture Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-driven Superconductivity
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Brookhaven Lab's Emil Bozin Receives 2014 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Superconductivity in Orbit: Scientists Find New Path to Loss-Free Electricity
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Top-10 Brookhaven Lab Breakthroughs of 2013
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Opposing Phenomena Possible Key to High-Efficiency Electricity Delivery
Thursday, December 19, 2013
A Grand Unified Theory of Exotic Superconductivity?
Thursday, October 17, 2013
New Evidence to Aid Search for Charge 'Stripes' in Superconductors
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Scientists Discover Hidden Magnetic Waves in High-Temperature Superconductors
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Interface Superconductivity Withstands Variations in Atomic Configuration
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Imaging Electron Pairing in a Simple Magnetic Superconductor
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Laser Mastery Narrows Down Sources of Superconductivity
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Dopants Dramatically Alter Electronic Structure of Superconductor
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Breakthrough Iron-based Superconductors Set New Performance Records
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Scientists Chart the Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, November 19, 2012
X-rays Reveal Spin Waves in Two-Dimensional High-Temperature Superconductors
Monday, September 3, 2012
Brookhaven Lab’s Ivan Bozovic Wins Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials
Monday, June 18, 2012
Atomic-scale Visualization of Electron Pairing in Iron Superconductors
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Brookhaven Lab Physicist Genda Gu Named American Physical Society Fellow
Friday, March 2, 2012
Impurity Atoms Introduce Waves of Disorder in Exotic Electronic Material
Monday, October 17, 2011
Department of Energy Awards $156 Million for Groundbreaking Energy Research Projects
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Link Between Competing Phases in Cuprates Leads to New Theory
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Ultrathin Copper-Oxide Layers Behave Like Quantum Spin Liquid
Friday, June 10, 2011
Exploring the Superconducting Transition in Ultra Thin Films
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Giant Proximity Effect Enhances High-Temperature Superconductivity
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Sharpening Images of High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Finding the Right Superconducting ‘Flavor’
Monday, March 21, 2011
Room-Temperature Superconductivity: Prospects and Challenges
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Fleeting Fluctuations in Superconductivity Disappear Close to Transition Temperature
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Brookhaven Lab’s Top 5 Scientific Discoveries of 2010
Friday, January 14, 2011
Brookhaven Scientist Peter Johnson Shares American Physical Society Oliver E. Buckley Prize
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Grant Funds Superconducting Magnet Energy Storage Research at Brookhaven Lab
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Brookhaven Lab Physicist William Sampson Receives IEEE Award for Applied Superconductivity Research
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Brookhaven Lab Physicist Simon Billinge Receives the J.D. Hanawalt Award from the International Centre for Diffraction Data
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Key Advance in Understanding ‘Pseudogap’ Phase in High-Tc Superconductors
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Scientists Create Nano-Patterned Superconducting Thin Films
Sunday, June 13, 2010
First Images of Heavy Electrons in Action
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Student at Brookhaven Lab Wins Award From Chinese Government for Energy Research
Thursday, May 20, 2010
J.C. Séamus Davis Elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Brookhaven Lab's Cedomir Petrovic Receives the Marko Jaric Award for Outstanding Achievements in Physics
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Meigan Aronson Named Department of Defense Security Fellow
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Electronic Liquid Crystal States Discovered in Parent of Iron-Based Superconductor
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Absorbing Hydrogen Fluoride Gas to Enhance Crystal Growth
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Puzzled Physicists Solve Decade-Long Discrepancies
Friday, October 9, 2009
Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Magnetic Measurements Question Assumptions About High-Tc Superconductors
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Brookhaven Physicists Win Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Research Offers New Insights, and a New Angle, on High-Temperature Superconductivity
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
DOE to Establish Energy Frontier Research Center at Brookhaven Lab
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Disappearing Superconductivity Reappears — in 2-D
Monday, December 1, 2008
Electron Pairs Precede High-Temperature Superconductivity
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Scientists Engineer Superconducting Thin Films
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Brookhaven Lab Scientist Masaki Suenaga Receives IEEE Award for Applied Superconductivity Research
Monday, September 15, 2008
Scientists Reveal Effects of Quantum "Traffic Jam" in High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Where's the glue?
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Unlocking the Secrets of High-temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
One Mystery of High-Tc Superconductivity Resolved
Thursday, November 16, 2006
More Evidence for "Stripes" in High-Temperature Superconductors
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
New Wrinkle in the Mystery of High-Tc Superconductors
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Helping Out a High-Temperature Superconductor
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Research on "Holes" May Unearth Causes of Superconductivity
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
New Physics Law Unifies Several Superconducting Compounds
Friday, July 30, 2004
Why Calcium Improves a High-Temperature Superconductor
Monday, June 7, 2004
Fluid "Stripes" May Be Essential for High-Temperature Superconductivity
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
Another Twist in the Field of Superconductivity
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Scientists Investigate the Mechanism Behind High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, February 23, 2004
Features
Longstanding Model Fails to Explain Spin Dynamics in 1D Cuprates
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Peeling Back the Layers: Exploring Capping Effects on Nickelate Superconductivity
Friday, January 17, 2025
Slow Atomic Movements Shed New Light on Unconventional Superconductivity
Monday, December 9, 2024
X-rays Reveal Electronic Details of Nickel-based Superconductors
Monday, April 17, 2023
524th Brookhaven Lecture: Magnetism, Superconductivity, and Neutron Scattering
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Understanding the Physics in New Metals
Monday, July 19, 2021
Physicists Uncover Secrets of World's Thinnest Superconductor
Friday, May 28, 2021
"Choosy" Electronic Correlations Dominate Metallic State of Iron Superconductor
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Breaking Electron Waves Provide New Clues to High-Temperature Superconductivity
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Surprising Stripes in a "Bad Metal" Offer Clues to High-Temperature Superconductivity
Monday, June 5, 2017
Room-Temp Superconductors Could Be Possible
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Supercooled Cavities for Particle Acceleration
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Upgrades to ATLAS and LHC Magnets for Run 2 and Beyond
Monday, July 6, 2015
Séamus Davis Selected to Receive New Grant for Exploring Exotic Quantum Phenomena
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Unstoppable Magnetoresistance
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Brookhaven Lab's Alexei Tsvelik Receives Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
Friday, August 22, 2014
New Grant to Aid Search for the Secrets of Superconductivity
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
MIT/National Labs Team Visualizes Complex Electronic State
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Simon Billinge Named 2014 NSSA Fellow
Friday, March 7, 2014
Séamus Davis Awarded Honorary Degree by National University of Ireland
Monday, December 2, 2013
Backup Magnets Ready to Ship to LHC
Monday, September 30, 2013
Superconducting Magnet Researchers Develop Exciting New HTS Technology
Friday, October 5, 2012
Next Generation of Superconducting Magnets
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Meet Jason Graetz and Qiang Li
Monday, February 6, 2012
Eight BNL Researchers Honored as New York State Leaders In Superconductivity
Monday, August 22, 2011
Brookhaven-Built Magnet Will Catch Subatomic Debris at FRIB
Monday, December 20, 2010
Brookhaven Lab Materials Scientist Participates in Statewide Superconductivity Summit
Monday, December 13, 2010
Expanding the Toolbox for Superconducting Film Investigations
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
ARPA-E to Power Superconducting Magnet Energy Storage Project
Thursday, September 9, 2010
An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Jinsheng Wen: Working on a Superconducting Energy Solution
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Recovery Act Pushes High-Field Magnet Development Forward
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Finding the Path of Least Resistance
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
