ASU scientists investigate potential superconductor
Superconductors may become even more super if the aspirations of Alexandra Navrotsky and Seth Tongay to enhance superconductivity come to fruition. Both are faculty members in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, part of the Fulton Schools. Superconductivity enables transmission of electricity without power loss, but only when materials are cooled to extremely low temperatures. Navrotsky and Tongay are working to develop superconductors that will operate optimally at room temperatures, which would enable technical applications to help overcome some of the world’s biggest energy challenges, enhance computing speed, enable innovative memory-storage devices and create highly sensitive sensors, among many more possibilities.