Discovery of the one-way superconductor

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Discovery of the one-way superconductor, thought to be impossible

NEWS - 28 APRIL 2022 - COMMUNICATION TNW

Associate Professor Mazhar Ali and his research group at TU Delft have discovered one-way superconductivity without magnetic fields, something that was thought to be impossible ever since its discovery in 1911 – up till now. The discovery, which was published in Nature yesterday, makes use of 2D quantum materials and paves the way towards superconducting computing. Superconductors can make electronics hundreds of times faster, all with zero energy loss. Ali: “If the 20th century was the century of semi-conductors, the 21st can become the century of the superconductor.”

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Now we want to work with the known so-called "High Tc Superconductors", and see whether we can operate Josephson diodes at temperatures above 77 K, since this will allow for liquid nitrogen cooling. The second thing to tackle is scaling of production. While it’s great that we proved this works in nanodevices, we only made a handful.

Only operating at below -321° F and unknown commercial production viability is a far cry from ready to revolutionize computing. Lots of "revolutionary" technologies die on the lab floor because they won't work outside of highly controlled environments or can be produced en masse.