Science: Can diamond now be a superconductor?

Science: Can diamond now be a superconductor?
Physicsweb ^ | 4 April 2003 | Peter Rodgers is Editor of Physics World

Posted on 04/16/2003 5:00:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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A new superconducting state of matter at room temperature

Is this an attempt to revive the diamond industry?

1 posted on 04/16/2003 5:00:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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Anyone heard of this?

Superconducting at room temperature would be a big deal!

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2 posted on 04/16/2003 5:02:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

let me know when they start buying kidney stones for superconductors

3 posted on 04/16/2003 5:06:09 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

For it to be workable, it would need to be a synthetic diamond layer on some substrate. You need to have the actual superconductor be long enough to actually be useful.

4 posted on 04/16/2003 5:07:07 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Heavily armed, easily bored, and off my medication)

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

what a waste of good jewelery ; )

5 posted on 04/16/2003 5:08:11 PM PDT by xsmommy

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Why, it is just a rock!

6 posted on 04/16/2003 5:09:20 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

"Superconducting at room temperature would be a big deal! "

It would be a very big deal.
My son did some post-grad work in this area at the University of Houston with Paul Chu.

7 posted on 04/16/2003 5:10:11 PM PDT by blam

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Superconducting at room temperature would be a big deal!

AlGore would have a job till the end of time.

8 posted on 04/16/2003 5:11:17 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

a nice sparkly one!

9 posted on 04/16/2003 5:11:34 PM PDT by xsmommy

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

So...you have a quasi two-dimensional layer of charge that is so narrow that the ground state energy is separated from the first excited state by more than the lowest phonon excitation mode...so that phonon scattering can't push electrons out of the ground state...

or something like that...

10 posted on 04/16/2003 5:29:48 PM PDT by HassanBenSobar (I now inform you that you are too far from reality!)

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Remember Texas A&M published room temp super conductivity.
Their measurements were off.
When another person can duplicate this, it will make more
sense.

11 posted on 04/16/2003 6:00:55 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ( clinton is a raping traitor!)

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Electron transition efficiency on diamond surfaces has been studied for decades... Even before Hagstrum's seminal work on bombardment-induced Auger transitions... Looks like promising stuff...

12 posted on 04/16/2003 6:04:26 PM PDT by maxwell (Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)