cuprate
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9.2
- noun
- /ˈkjuːpreɪt/
- Specialized
- Electronic and electrical power technologies based on the superconducting cuprates are expected to grow rapidly in the near future.
- high-Tc cuprate
Examples
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DCMP: The Electronic Properties of Overdoped Cuprates: The Clean Gateway to High-Tc Superconductivity.
Academic text (2006) -
Thus, the iron-arsenic superconductors appear to exhibit properties of both high-temperature cuprates and magnesium diboride.
Blog text (2) -
I believe there will be one theory to explain all superconductors: cuprate, pnictide, conventional.
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Moreover, it was a consideration of the effects of pressure that played a prominent role in the search for higher-temperature cuprate superconductors in 1986 and the years following.
Academic text (1998) -
Very high critical temperatures have been measured in mercury-bearing cuprates, with the highest TAUc materials having a value of 135 K.
Academic text (1998) -
"We did not expect the charge density waves in the superconducting cuprates because they destroy the superconductivity," says Bernhard Keimer.
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Photo (color): A single crystal of the superconducting layered-cuprate ceramic YBa2Cu3O7-x, whose critical temperature is 92 K.
Academic text (1993) -
Nonetheless, a substantial number of theorists and experimenters in this field agree that it is likely that in the cuprate normal metal (above T c), the transport properties cannot be understood with a conventional quasiparticle theory.
Academic text (1997) -
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have discovered charge density waves in ceramic yttrium and neodymium barium cuprates.
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The potential of cuprates as high-temperature superconductors makes them a key focus of modern physics research.
Synonyms
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4.6
A substance made of copper and oxygen that forms black or red solids
Surface Forms
Morphology
cuprate = copper (semi-transparent) = cupr + ate
The word denotes a copper-containing compound (transparent relation to 'copper'), but the chemical sense of '-ate' (anion/salt) is specialized and not fully predictable for average learners.
Etymology
Cuprate comes from the Latin word cuprum (from Cyprus, known for its copper) and the chemical ending -ate, which often names compounds that include oxygen; so a cuprate is a chemical compound 'made of copper and oxygen', which is why many high-temperature superconductors are called cuprates.