Lanthanum barium copper oxide

Lanthanum barium copper oxide
LBCO unit cell
The unit cell of the layered perovskite structure of LBCO. Copper ions are red, lanthanum (barium) ions are blue, and oxygen ions are green.
Except where noted otherwise, data is given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa)
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Lanthanum barium copper oxide, or LBCO, was discovered in 1986 and was the first high temperature superconductor.[1] Johannes Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in physics for its discovery.[2]

References

  1. ↑ J. G. Bednorz and K. A. Müller (1986). "Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba−La−Cu−O system". Z. Physik, B 64 (1): 189–193. Bibcode:1986ZPhyB..64..189B. doi:10.1007/BF01303701.
  2. ↑ Nobel prize website

The Break-Through, by Robert M. Hazen, Summit books, 1988