World-First Demonstration of Zero-Resistance Monatomic Surface Material
-Contribute to Developments of Superconducting Devices-
A MANA-NIMS research group has found that a surface material consisting of monatomic layers of metal on a silicon surface exhibits the superconducting property of zero electrical resistance. This demonstrates that a superconducting material can be ultimately thin at the atomic scale. The present result is expected to accelerate researches on superconducting computing devices and superconducting single-photon detectors.
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Affiliations
Takashi Uchihash1, Puneet Mishra1, Masakazu Aono1,Tomonobu Nakayama1
- International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)