What is it about?
The superconductivity of a solid material depends on how its atoms are arranged into a lattice. It is sometimes possible to quench a melt fast enough to freeze it into a random or glass-like structure, and this article attempts to do this for a variety of alloys of zirconium, and to see how the temperature below which superconductivity starts (Tc) depends on the lattice structure.
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Why is it important?
This is an example of a superconductivity study that predates the advent of high-temperature superconductors.
Perspectives
This was my first scientific paper, written when I was a physics undergraduate at the University of Virginia, in the early 1980s. I changed to planetary science in graduate school, but this first paper in condensed matter physics helped to bolster my graduate school application. (It also decided the choice of metal for my first Forever Spin top!)
Professor Timothy E. Dowling
University of Louisville
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This page is a summary of: Superconductivity of the allotropic forms of zirconium-based alloys obtained by liquid quenching on hot substrates, Solid State Communications, April 1984, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/0038-1098(84)90937-2.
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