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Pseudogap phenomenon explains superconducting temperature change
Cornell University researchers have discovered a rare "pseudogap" phenomenon that helps explain how the superconducting transition temperature can be greatly boosted in a single monolayer of iron selenide.
[Researchers used the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility, supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (grant ECCS 2025233).]
Learn more about this research in the Fall/Winter 2021 CNF Nanometer newsletter. (Date image taken: 2021; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 14, 2021)
Credit: Image provided by Kyle Shen's Research Group, Cornell University
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