# Conventional superconductivity at 203 kelvin at high pressures in the sulfur hydride system

@article{Drozdov2015ConventionalSA,
title={Conventional superconductivity at 203 kelvin at high pressures in the sulfur hydride system},
author={Alexander P. Drozdov and Mikhail I. Eremets and Ivan A. Troyan and Vadim Ksenofontov and Sergii I. Shylin},
journal={Nature},
year={2015},
volume={525},
pages={73-76}
}
A superconductor is a material that can conduct electricity without resistance below a superconducting transition temperature, Tc. The highest Tc that has been achieved to date is in the copper oxide system: 133 kelvin at ambient pressure and 164 kelvin at high pressures. As the nature of superconductivity in these materials is still not fully understood (they are not conventional superconductors), the prospects for achieving still higher transition temperatures by this route are not clear. In… Expand
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