Lanthanide-based Superconductor and its Applications
Godlisten N. Shao
Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with no resistance below its critical temperature (Tc). To date, pure metals, metal alloys, oxides, hydrides and super hydrides are among structures that have been reported to exhibit excellent superconducting properties due to their unique electronic properties and lattice structure. Most researchers have widely reported on the fabrication, structure, properties and applications of cuprate and iron-based superconducting materials. The modification of cuprate-based and iron-based superconducting materials using lanthanides have shown to massively improve their physico-chemical properties and applications. Investigations on lanthanide superhydride superconductors which contain hydrogen framework structures such as LaH10 and YbH10 are a recent adventure in the field of superconductors. Lanthanide-based structures are considered as potential high temperature superconductors (HTSC) and can be used in high performance applications. The current chapter outlines the advances and prospects observed in lanthanide-based superconductors (LBSC) as modern and fascinating functional materials. There is some literature that has been dedicated to providing a review on superconductors but very few have reported on LBSC. This review chapter provides a general insight of the development of LBSC and their potential technological applications.
Keywords
Superconductivity, Critical Temperature, High-Temperature Superconductors, Lanthanide-based Superconductors
Published online 10/5/2022, 11 pages
Citation: Godlisten N. Shao, Lanthanide-based Superconductor and its Applications, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 132, pp 97-107, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902110-5
Part of the book on Superconductors
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