High-Temperature Superconductors
Ceramic and other unconventional superconducting materials with critical temperatures above earlier metallic superconductors, beginning with Bednorz and Muller's 1986 Ba-La-Cu-O discovery.
Core metadata
- ID: superconductors_high_temp
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 1986 (exact)
- Region: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland; later global condensed-matter and materials research
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
- Advanced Chemistry (advanced_chemistry)
- Advanced Materials Science (advanced_materials_science)
- Quantum Physics (quantum_physics)
- Early Superconductors (superconductors_early)
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Fields
Field lanes
- Materials Science & Manufacturing: Semiconductor Materials
- Energy Systems & Grid: Storage
Node sources
- Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba-La-Cu-O system (Zeitschrift fuer Physik B / Springer, 1986, primary_paper) • Supports: node, maturity
- Press release: The 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobel Prize, 1987, museum) • Supports: node, maturity
- Perovskite-Type Oxides - The New Approach to High-Tc Superconductivity (Nobel Prize, 1987, review) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 4
- Average edge confidence: 83%
- Prerequisite sources: 4
- primary_source: 1
- review: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early Superconductors (superconductors_early) | historical_predecessor | 90% | review | High-temperature superconductors are a later branch of superconductivity research; earlier superconductivity was discovered in 1911 and frames the temperature-limit breakthrough. |
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| Advanced Materials Science (advanced_materials_science) | enabling | 82% | review | The breakthrough came from solid-state materials work on oxide/perovskite structures, making advanced materials science an enabling research capability rather than a hard component prerequisite. |
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| Advanced Chemistry (advanced_chemistry) | enabling | 82% | primary_source | The original Ba-La-Cu-O work depended on prepared mixed oxide ceramic compositions and processing, which is chemistry/materials synthesis evidence rather than a generic forecast edge. |
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| Quantum Physics (quantum_physics) | common_dependency | 78% | review | Superconductivity is interpreted through quantum concepts such as Cooper pairing and tunneling, but this edge is a shared theoretical foundation, not a direct product prerequisite. |
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