Silicon becomes a superconductor

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Nov 23, 2006

If you missed the paper in this week's Nature, let's just say that this is an unexpected discovery. You can read a report of it in PhysicsWeb

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/11/19/1

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Nov 23, 2006

Just an alloy...! A 9% boron doping is too much for a silicon elementar superconductor.

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