Communications Materials (Jan 2021)

Calcium-free double-layered cuprate superconductors with critical temperature above 100 K

  • Hiroki Ninomiya,
  • Kenji Kawashima,
  • Akira Iyo,
  • Hiroshi Fujihisa,
  • Shigeyuki Ishida,
  • Hiraku Ogino,
  • Yoshiyuki Yoshida,
  • Yoshito Gotoh,
  • Hiroshi Eisaki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-00116-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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High-temperature superconductivity at above 100 K in cuprates is typically realized in materials containing multilayered CuO2 planes separated by calcium. Here, critical temperatures of over 100 K are achieved in calcium-free double-layered cuprates, attributed to strontium-separated CuO2 planes.