Removing defects reveals a nickelate superconductor's true nature (IMAGE)

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Removing defects reveals a nickelate superconductor's true nature

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Colorized electron microscope images reveal defects in the atomic structure of a nickelate superconductor (left) compared to a defect-free structure (right). By eliminating the defects, SLAC and Stanford researchers improved the material's superconductivity and were able to see its true properties for the first time.

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Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and K. Lee et al., Nature, 2023

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