Discovery of Unconventional Superconductors by Design

Project Personnel

Julia Mundy

Principal Investigator

Harvard University

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Jarad Mason

Co-PI

Harvard University

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ANTIA S. BOTANA

Co-PI

Arizona State University

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Jennifer Hoffman

Co-PI

Harvard University

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Funding Divisions

Division Of Materials Research (DMR)

Superconductivity is a quantum phenomenon where electricity flows with zero resistance below a critical temperature. High temperature superconductivity has the promise to revolutionize energy generation, storage, and distribution. Despite the discoveries of unconventional, high-temperature superconductivity in copper and iron-based materials, known superconductors cannot be widely exploited as they become superconducting at very low temperatures. Discovering new superconductors and increasing their transition temperatures has been limited by the lack of consensus about the necessary ingredients that give rise to superconductivity in these families of materials. This DMREF project seeks to exploit the characteristics (descriptors) of the known copper- and iron-based superconductors as design criteria in the search for new ambient-pressure superconducting materials. Promising materials will be synthesized in a tight feedback loop between theory and experiment. This project will also provide educational opportunities for students in high school and at the beginning of their undergraduate studies.

Publications

Alkaline Earth Bismuth Fluorides as Fluoride-Ion Battery Electrolytes
S. Doyle, E. Tewolde Berhane, P. Zou, A. B. Turkiewicz, Y. Zhang, C. M. Brooks, I. El Baggari, H. L. Xin, and J. A. Mundy
9/2/2024
Extensive hydrogen incorporation is not necessary for superconductivity in topotactically reduced nickelates
P. P. Balakrishnan, D. Ferenc Segedin, L. E. Chow, P. Quarterman, S. Muramoto, M. Surendran, R. K. Patel, H. LaBollita, G. A. Pan, Q. Song, Y. Zhang, I. El Baggari, K. Jagadish, Y. Shao, B. H. Goodge, L. F. Kourkoutis, S. Middey, A. S. Botana, J. Ravichandran, A. Ariando, J. A. Mundy, and A. J. Grutter
8/27/2024
Absence of strong magnetic fluctuations or interactions in the normal state of LaNiGa2
P. Sherpa, I. Vinograd, Y. Shi, S. A. Sreedhar, C. Chaffey, T. Kissikov, M. -. Jung, A. S. Botana, A. P. Dioguardi, R. Yamamoto, M. Hirata, G. Conti, S. Nemsak, J. R. Badger, P. Klavins, I. Vishik, V. Taufour, and N. J. Curro
3/8/2024

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Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)