Superconductors go large

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:13:03 GMT

Superconductors go large (Dec 1)
   http://physicsweb.org/article/world/17/12/5
    Since it was discovered in 1986, high-temperature superconductivity has
    continued to surprise and fascinate condensed-matter physicists. Today,
    most researchers agree that there are several key features of these
    "cuprate" compounds - all of which contain layers of copper and oxygen
    atoms - that remain unexplained. Now Ivan Bozovic of the Brookhaven
    National Laboratory and co-workers have discovered another unexpected
    property of the cuprates - the "giant proximity effect" - for the first
    time.