Scientists of the Max Plank Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have turned a normal insulator partially into a superconductor at room temperature, using a flash of infrared light. The superconducting state survived only for a couple of picoseconds (trillionths of a second), but the findings may aid the quest for higher temperature superconductors, as the team of scientists including Wanzheng Hu, Daniele Nicoletti, Cassi Hunt and Stefan Kaiser lead by Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at CFEL reports in the scientific journal Nature Materials.
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Advancement brings superconductors closer to functioning at room temperature
