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Thursday, May 29, 2008

"MATERIALS: High-temp superconductors pave way for 'supermagnets'"


The world's highest temperature superconductors share an unusual affinity for magnetism, according to researchers in the U.S. Earlier this month, high-temperature superconducting iron-compounds with lanthanum and arsenic were separately discovered by Japanese and Chinese researchers. Now, U.S. researchers have confirmed those results, heralding a new generation of "supermagnets" for magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) machines, superconducting electric motors, power-generators and -transmission lines.
Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208400851