---
title: "Superconductivity Without Cooling"
description: "With the aid of short infrared laser pulses, researchers have succeeded for the first time in making a ceramic superconducting at room temperature."
date: "2014-12-04"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Radu Serban"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/techie1986"
url: "https://futurism.com/superconductivity-without-cooling"
categories:
  - "Future Materials"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "materials"
---

# Superconductivity Without Cooling

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/9-superconduct.jpg>)

- In 2013, an international team discovered that when YBCO (yttrium barium copper oxide) is irradiated with infrared laser pulses it briefly becomes superconducting at room temperature
- On the one hand, the new result helps to refine the still incomplete theory of high-temperature superconductors, on the other, it could assist materials scientists to develop new superconductors with higher critical temperatures
- Until now, superconducting magnets, motors and cables must be cooled to temperatures far below zero with liquid nitrogen or helium.