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The search for high-temperature superconductors in hydrides under high pressure has always been a research hotspot. Hydrogen-based superconductors offer an avenue to achieve the long-sought goal of superconductivity at room temperature. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-22 Ming Xu , Defang Duan , Wendi Zhao , Decheng An , Hao Song , Tian Cui

In an experiment in a diamond anvil cell utilizing helium pressure medium, yttrium metal displays a superconducting transition temperature which increases monotonically from Tc ? 3.5 K at 30 GPa to 17 K at 89.3 GPa, one of the highest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. J. Hamlin , V. G. Tissen , J. S. Schilling

Inspired by the high critical temperature in yttrium superhydride and the low stabilized pressure in superconducting cerium superhydride, we carry out four independent runs to synthesize yttrium-cerium alloy hydrides. The phases examined by…

Recently, the superconducting transition temperature Tc = 287 K has been experimentally obtained in the material composed of carbon, sulfur, and hydrogen under the high pressure of 267 GPa. The material structure is unknown yet, where the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-08 Zheng-Wei Liao , Zhen Zhang , Jing-Yang You , Bo Gu , Gang Su

We report significant enhancement in superconducting properties of yttrium substituted Ce1-xYxOFFeAs superconductors. The polycrystalline samples were prepared by two step solid state reaction technique. X-ray diffraction confirmed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Prakash , S. J. Singh , A. Banerjee , S. Patnaik , A. K. Ganguli

Inspired by recent predictions of superconductivity in B-C framework clathrates, we employ density functional theory to explore potential superconductors among hexagonal hydride-substituted compounds with compositions XB$_8$C, XB$_7$C$_2$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-11 Bin Li , Yuxiang Fan , Chuanhui Yin , Junjie Zhai , Cong Zhu , Zhisi Cao , Jie Cheng , Shengli Liu

The discovery of the high temperature superconducting state in compounds of hydrogen, carbon and sulfur with the critical temperature (Tc) of 288 K at high pressure is an important milestone towards room-temperature superconductors. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-23 Mingyang Du , Zihan Zhang , Tian Cui , Defang Duan1

To veryfy "hot supreconductivity" recently proposed in lanthanum hydride-based compounds, we explored thermodynamically stable and superconducting phases in the lanthanum (La)-platinum (Pt)-hydrogen (H) ternary system at 20 GPa using an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-12 T. Ishikawa , Y. Tanaka , S. Tsuneyuki

Lanthanum hydrides, containing hydrogen framework structures under compression, display a superconducting state with a high observed critical temperature. However, this phenomenon has so far only been observed at very high pressures. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-16 Hao Song , Zihan Zhang , Tian Cui2 , Chris J. Pickard , Vladimir Z. Kresin , Defang Duan

The abundant chemical compositions in ternary hydrides bring much more possibility to explore high temperature superconductors under lower pressure. Here we constructed 115 ternary hydrides on the basis of the elements substitution using 16…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-19 Bangshuai Zhu , Dexi Shao , Cuiying Pei , Qi Wang , Juefei Wu , Yanpeng Qi

Elemental materials provide clean and fundamental platforms for studying superconductivity. However, the highest superconducting critical temperature (Tc) yet observed in elements has not exceeded 30 K. Discovering elemental superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-27 Jianjun Ying , Shiqiu Liu , Qing Lu , Xikai Wen , Zhigang Gui , Yuqing Zhang , Xiaomeng Wang , Jian Sun , Xianhui Chen

The use of high pressure to realize superconductivity in the vicinity of room temperature has a long history, much of it focused on achieving this in hydrogen rich materials. This paper provides a brief overview of the work presented at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-11 Russell J. Hemley , Muhtar Ahart , Hanyu Liu , Maddury Somayazulu

The quest for room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-standing aspiration in the field of materials science, driving extensive research efforts. In this work, we present a novel hydride, YSc$_2$H$_{24}$, which is stable at high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Truong-Tho Pham , Viet-Ha Chu , Duc-Long Nguyen

The highest critical temperature of superconductivity Tc has been achieved in cuprates: 133 K at ambient pressure and 164 K at high pressures. As the nature of superconductivity in these materials is still not disclosed, the prospects for a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-02 A. P. Drozdov , M. I. Eremets , I. A. Troyan

Observation of high-temperature superconductivity in sulfur hydrides at megabar pressures has generated an irresistible wave on searching for new superconductors in other compressed hydrogen-rich compounds. An immediate effort is towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-02-10 Xin Zhong , Hui Wang , Jurong Zhang , Hanyu Liu , Shoutao Zhang , Hai-Feng Song , Guochun Yang , Lijun Zhang , Yanming Ma

The study of superconductivity in compressed hydrides is of great interest due to measurements of high critical temperatures (Tc) in the vicinity of room temperature, beginning with the observations of LaH10 at 170-190 GPa. However, the…

The discovery of superconductivity in $\mathrm{YH_{9}}$ with a critical temperature of approximately $T_c\sim 243 \ K$ has opened a new window toward room temperature superconductivity. In this work, we employ the lowest order constrained…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-10-14 M. A. Rastkhadiv

Recently, the discovery of room-temperature superconductivity (SC) was experimentally realized in the fcc phase of LaH$_{10}$ under megabar pressure. Specifically, the isotope effect of $T_{\rm c}$ was measured by the replacement of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-06-03 Artur P. Durajski , Radoslaw Szczesniak , Yinwei Li , Chongze Wang , Jun-Hyung Cho

The recent reports on high-temperature superconductivity above 190 K in hydrogen sulfide at 200 GPa pressure, exceeding all previously discovered superconductors, has greatly invigorated the interest in dense hydrogen-rich solids. In this…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-02 Christoph Heil , Lilia Boeri

The recent discovery of H3S and LaH10 superconductors with record high superconducting transition temperatures, Tc, at high pressure, has fueled the search for room-temperature superconductivity in the compressed superhydrides. Here we…