---
title: "New superconducting hybrid crystals developed at the University of Copenhagen"
description: "A new type of 'nanowire' crystals that fuses semiconducting and metallic materials on the atomic scale could lay the foundation for future semiconducting electronics."
date: "2015-01-14"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Christine Doan"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/christine_doan"
url: "https://futurism.com/new-superconducting-hybrid-crystals-developed-at-the-university-of-copenhagen"
categories:
  - "Future Materials"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "materials"
---

# New superconducting hybrid crystals developed at the University of Copenhagen

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- The new material, comprised of both a semiconductor and metal, has a special superconducting property at very low temperatures and could play a central role in the development of future electronics.
- The new material was born as a hybrid between a semiconducting nanowire and its electronic contact, and represents a way to make a perfect transition between the nanowire and a superconductor.
- In their publication in Nature Materials, the research group has demonstrated this perfect contact and its properties and has also shown that they can make a chip with billions of identical semiconductor-metal nanowire hybrids.