Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University say they've found a way to make thin films of an exciting new nickel oxide superconductor that are free of extended defects. Not only does this improve the material's ability to conduct electricity with no loss, they said, but it also allows them to discover its true nature and properties, both in and out of the superconducting state, for the first time. Their first look at a superconducting nickel oxide, or nickelate, that does not have defects revealed that it is more like the cuprates ­- which hold the world's high-temperature record for unconventional superconductivity ­at normal pressures - than previously thought.

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