In 1986, Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller discovered Supraleitung in a ceramic material, a lanthanum-based cuprate perovskite, at a kritische Temperatur of ~35 K. This was significantly higher than the ~23 K record for conventional superconductors at the time and shattered the belief that superconductivity was restricted to much lower temperatures, opening the field of high-temperature superconductivity.

















