How to Use superconductivity in a Sentence

superconductivity

noun
  • But Dias continued to claim that the superconductivity was present.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 May 2023
  • But scientists around the world are still hard at work uncovering the quantum secrets of superconductivity so that, one day, that dream can come true.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The team found that small differences in how atoms are arranged in a crystalline lattice can strongly affect superconductivity.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
  • One of these effects is superconductivity which comes about in certain metals when electrons form into Cooper pairs.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2020
  • The sensors may also shed light on superconductivity.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • But a reluctance to trust results until they are replicated is not unusual in the field of superconductivity.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The researchers aren’t well known in the field, and their analysis lacks basic tests typically used to confirm superconductivity.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And in July, researchers reported signs of superconductivity when three sheets of graphene are stacked atop each other—no twisting needed.
    — Mark Zastrow, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Specifically, the researchers were studying a type of superconductivity called edge states.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2024
  • To demonstrate superconductivity, the team hit three textbook benchmarks.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But in superconductivity—a state of matter that, at least for now, requires very low temperatures—electrons learn to cooperate.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Extraordinary claims that did not survive scrutiny have long plagued the field of superconductivity.
    — Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
  • So to achieve superconductivity, electrons need to easily generate and absorb phonons.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Many electrical devices used in medicine and other fields can employ extremely high currents, by use of equipment cooled to temperatures at which superconductivity sets in.
    — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
  • On earth, the findings may inform research into superconductivity.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Claims of room-temperature superconductivity date back to at least the year 2000, though many of them require immensely high pressures.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The summer of room-temperature superconductivity was short-lived.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • While superconductivity allows electrons to flow without energy loss, the flow is not continuous.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The superconductivity goes away, and the magnetic field dissipates.
    — Nicholas Fitzkee, The Conversation, 17 Jan. 2024
  • In this way, researchers have produced superconductivity at temperatures tens of degrees above the frigid extremes usually needed.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2020
  • To achieve superconductivity, the device has to be cooled to cryogenic temperatures, and wiring up many pixels into the cooling system is prohibitive.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2023
  • That’s more than 50 degrees hotter than the previous high-temperature superconductivity record set last year.
    — Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The phenomenon known as superconductivity was first discovered more than 100 years ago.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • At conferences this summer, Dias has presented claims of superconductivity in new hydride compounds.
    — Byeric Hand, science.org, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The heating element would then heat up naturally and in turn break superconductivity locally on the bus, which is also made of superconducting wire.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 July 2023
  • While room-temperature superconductivity remains a distant prospect, this kind of research seems to put it squarely within the realm of possibility.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 July 2017
  • The bronze plaque from the IEEE will be mounted outside the room that once served as the superconductivity laboratory.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The two companies will explore wing performance, fuel efficiency, and superconductivity, which may be used for future aircraft builds.
    — Chris Dong, AFAR Media, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The blockbuster discovery last year of superconductivity in a material called twisted bilayer graphene caught theorists off guard.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2019
  • The large moiré pattern of the superlattice is both visually striking and electrically special, as the emergence of superconductivity shows.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2019

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