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Nature Materials 7, 929 - 930 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2327

Superconductivity: Squash and sandwiches

Erio Tosatti1

  1. Erio Tosatti is at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy; at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Strada Costiera 11, 34014, Trieste, Italy; and at the CNR-INFM Democritos National Simulation Center, via Beirut 2, 34014 Trieste, Italy.
    e-mail: tosatti@sissa.it


Externally applied pressure induces superconductivity in the layer compound 1T-TaS2. Similarities to, and differences from, other superconducting systems promise exciting future experiments on this old, but suddenly rejuvenated, compound.

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