Properties of Superconductors

Superconductors have some unique properties after critical temperatures, that makes them work like superconductors. Some of the properties of superconductors are listed below,

• Transition Temperature: Also known as critical temperature, below this point metals get their superconductive properties. Superconductors start forming cooper pairs which help reduce resistance to zero.
• Zero Electric Resistance: Superconductors offer zero electric resistance, which is also called infinite conductivity. Even Good Conductors have some resistance, but superconductors have no resistance to current.
• Messier Effect: Superconductors hate magnetic field, hence they exhibit expulsion of magnetic field. This is also defined as Messier Effect (perfect diamagnetism)
• Critical Magnetic Effect: At this point, superconductors start losing their special zero resistance power and behave as normal conductors.

Advantages of Superconductors

Various advantages of the superconductors are:

• Superconductors offer no resistance at critical temperature, hence it offers no energy loss.
• Ideal for storing heavy energy.
• Ideal for transferring high energy effectively.
• Low power loss and High speed operation.

Disadvantages of Superconductors

Various disadvantages of the superconductors are:

• Superconductors have a Need of low temperature to get superconductive properties, as a consequence it has high operational cost.
• Superconductor are mostly brittle, hence they are hard to shape.
• In presence of magnetic field at a certain range, superconductors lose its properties.

Superconductors are those elements that conduct electricity without resistance after they become colder than a particular temperature, which is also called “critical temperature”. At this temperature, electrons move freely through the material hence they become superconductors.

Ordinary conductors, such as copper gradually get more conductive with a decrease in temperature but superconductors like metals mercury get conductive all at once, after the critical temperature. This is also called phase transition.

In this article, we will study superconductor definitions, types of superconductors, properties of superconductors, working of superconductors, applications of superconductors and others in detail.