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Dr. Nai-Chang Yeh
Professor of Physics, Caltech
This event was digitally recorded and is available for viewing on the Caltech Theater site.
Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with no resistance below a critical temperature. Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductors spurred a worldwide frenzy in superconductivity research over 15 years ago, a vast amount of new physics knowledge has been accumulated, and a variety of applications ranging from magnetic sensors for cardiograms to microwave filters for cellular phone base stations have been realized. Despite the progress, the hype of great promises has not been fully achieved, largely due to the complexity of the material properties that limits fundamental physics understanding at the microscopic level. This talk will review novel properties of high-temperature superconductors, the discovery of a new superconducting material and promising applications of superconductors in communication technology, energy transmission, quantum computation, medical and space research.
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