YBCO Superconductor

This is a YBCO disc we created in Materials Science. The assignment was to study modern materials. We started with Yttrium Oxide, Barium Carbonate, and Cupric Oxide powders and went through the steps of ceramic processing including calcination, firing, sintering, and oxygen annealing.

This video shows superconducting YBCO levitating a permanent magnet. Liquid nitrogen is used to keep the temperature of the YBCO under 100 degrees kelvin.

Footage by Leif Jentoft
Edited by Ben Fisher

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• YBCO
• Superconductor
• Olin
• College

[TechnologyGeekify]

Do you know how the YBCO becomes a superconductor and why the magnet just floats atop? If so please tell me.

[bngboing]

@TechnologyGeekify Yes, it does enter a superconductive state.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

next experiment, see if X-rays and gamma rays pass through the activated superconductor.

[TheSasss1]

I should mean are "operated" through similar concepts. 

[TheSasss1]

I bet extraterrestrial aircraft are made from similar concepts.

[MrAndreaspower]

is that calcination process?

[absurdist366]

Hey I am working on a project. Do you know anywhere I could find YBCO made already in wire form, so as to conduct electricity?

[ysbaysal]

good old yittrum

[twtmei88]

this is so cool. i hope i can make this stuff once i graduate. my major is chemistry/material science, currently a junior at UCLA.

i am looking for informations to put into my paper for my inorganic chem honors class.