When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Magnetic levitation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation

    Superconductors may be considered perfect diamagnets, and completely expel magnetic fields due to the Meissner effect when the superconductivity initially forms; thus superconducting levitation can be considered a particular instance of diamagnetic levitation. In a type-II superconductor, the levitation of the magnet is further stabilized due ...

  3. Levitation (physics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation_(physics)

    a high-temperature superconductor levitating above magnet. Magnetic levitation is the most commonly seen and used form of levitation. This form of levitation occurs when an object is suspended using magnetic fields. Diamagnetic materials are commonly used for demonstration purposes.

  4. Diamagnetism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism

    Transition from ordinary conductivity (left) to superconductivity (right). At the transition, the superconductor expels the magnetic field and then acts as a perfect diamagnet. Superconductors may be considered perfect diamagnets (χ v = −1), because they expel all magnetic fields (except in a thin surface layer) due to the Meissner effect. [7]

  5. Superconductivity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity

    Cuprate superconductors can have much higher critical temperatures: YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7, one of the first cuprate superconductors to be discovered, has a critical temperature above 90 K, and mercury-based cuprates have been found with critical temperatures in excess of 130 K. The basic physical mechanism responsible for the high critical temperature ...

  6. Meissner effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meissner_effect

    In type-I superconductors, superconductivity is abruptly destroyed when the strength of the applied field rises above a critical value H c. Depending on the geometry of the sample, one may obtain an intermediate state [ 3 ] consisting of a baroque pattern [ 4 ] of regions of normal material carrying a magnetic field mixed with regions of ...

  7. Superdiamagnetism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdiamagnetism

    Superdiamagnetism established that the superconductivity of a material was a stage of phase transition. Superconducting magnetic levitation is due to superdiamagnetism, which repels a permanent magnet which approaches the superconductor, and flux pinning, which prevents the magnet floating away. Superdiamagnetism is a feature of superconductivity.

  8. Superconducting magnet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnet

    The wire or tape itself may be made of tiny filaments (about 20 micrometres thick) of superconductor in a copper matrix. The copper is needed to add mechanical stability, and to provide a low resistance path for the large currents in case the temperature rises above T c or the current rises above I c and superconductivity is

  9. Electrodynamic suspension - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_suspension

    Unlike configurations of simple permanent magnets, electrodynamic levitation can be made stable. Electrodynamic levitation with metallic conductors exhibits a form of diamagnetism, and relative permeabilities of around 0.7 can be achieved (depending on the frequency and conductor configuration). Given the details of the applicable hysteresis ...