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Handout
Florida State University

Florida State University: Magnet Lab: Lanthanum Aluminate

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of this unique ceramic, including why it is of such great interest to scientists. Researchers use lanthanum aluminate to grow thin films of superconducting materials (including buckyballs) and hope it can one day be used...
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Karl Alexander Muller

For Students 9th - 10th
In their search for new superconductors, Swiss theoretical physicist Karl Alexander Muller and his young colleague, J. Georg Bednorz, abandoned the metal alloys typically used in superconductivity research in favor of a class of oxides...