New family of superconductor materials

By the controlled addition of doping impurities, Prof. Renato Jardim and collaborators from EEL-USP, UNIFEI and UNICAMP developed a new family of superconductors with relatively high critical temperature. In a recent paper, the hexagonal structure stabilization of the Nb5Ge3 compound doped with carbon atoms was reported.


Bortolozo, A. D. et al. Interstitial doping
induced superconductivity at 15.3K in
Nb5Ge3 compound. Journal of Applied
Physics. 2012.




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http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/japiau/v111/i12/p123912_s1

See the highlight in Revista FAPESP
http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/2012/09/14/o-valor-das-impurezas/