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| Illustration: Takashi Takahashi/Tohoku University |
Topics: Condensed Matter Physics, Graphene, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Semiconductor Technology, Superconductors, Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanics
Graphene is an amazing conductor. The transport of electrons through graphene nanoribbons has even surpassed what scientists thought were the theoretical limits for the material—so much so that electrons moving through it seem to behave almost like photons.
Graphene’s amazing properties as a conductor has inspired some researchers to explore whether the single-atom-thick sheets of carbon could also be made into superconductors. Last year, an international research team from Canada and Germany was able to demonstrate that graphene can be made to behave that way when it’s doped with lithium atoms.
Now researchers in Japan (from Tohoku University and the University of Tokyo) have developed a new method for coaxing graphene to behave as a superconductor that has some important and distinctive differences from the previous research by the Canadian and German researchers.
IEEE: Graphene's Role as a Superconductor Just Got Better, Dexter Johnson
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