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Superconductor timeline. In 1986, J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Mueller discovered superconductivity in a lanthanum-based cuprate perovskite material, which had a transition temperature of 35 K (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1987) and was the first of the high-temperature superconductors.
English: Overview of superconducting critical temperatures for a variety of superconducting materials since the first discovery in 1911. Colors represent different classes of materials: BCS (dark green circle)
The precise date and circumstances of the discovery were only reconstructed a century later, when Onnes's notebook was found. [10] In subsequent decades, superconductivity was observed in several other materials. In 1913, lead was found to superconduct at 7 K, and in 1941 niobium nitride was found to superconduct at 16 K.
1985 – The first fullerene molecule discovered by scientists at Rice University (see also: Timeline of carbon nanotubes) 1986 – The first high temperature superconductor is discovered by Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller
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Timeline of superconductor discoveries. On the right one can see the liquid nitrogen temperature, which usually divides superconductors at high from superconductors at low temperatures. Cuprates are displayed as blue diamonds, and iron-based superconductors as yellow squares.
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The table below shows some of the parameters of common superconductors. X:Y means material X doped with element Y, T C is the highest reported transition temperature in kelvins and H C is a critical magnetic field in tesla. "BCS" means whether or not the superconductivity is explained within the BCS theory.