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High-temperature superconductor

The term high-temperature superconductor was initially employed to designate the new family of cuprate-perovskite ceramic materials discovered by J.G. Bednorz[?] and K.A. Mueller[?] in 1986. These materials are characterized by presenting superconductivity at a higher temperature than conventional superconductors (which require temperatures a few degrees above absolute zero), and by other unconventional features. Recently, other unconventional superconductors have been discovered. Some of them also have unusually high values of the critical temperature Tc, and hence they are sometimes also called high-temperature superconductors, although the record is still held by a cuprate perovskite material (Tc=133K, that is -140°C). Nevertheless it is widely believed that if room temperature superconductivity[?] is ever achieved it will be in a different family of materials.



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