Publications

Room Temperature Superconductivity in a Carbonaceous Sulfur Hydride

Elliot Snider, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Raymond McBride, Mathew Debessai, Hiranya P. Vindana, Kevin Vencatasamy, Keith Lawler, Ashkan Salamat, Ranga P. Dias Nature, volume 586, 373–377(2020).

Publication highlights and reports about this work

• The New York Times
  Finally, the First Room-Temperature Superconductor
• Nature Podcast
  Superconductivity gets heated
• NewScientist
  First room-temperature superconductor could spark energy revolution –
• Nature News
  First room-temperature superconductor
• Chemistry World
  Room temperature superconductivity finally claimed by mystery material
• BBC News
  Superconductors: Material raises hope of energy revolution
• The Economist
  Material that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency at ambient temperatures
• ScienceNews
  The first room-temperature superconductor has finally been found
• Science Magazine News
  At last, room temperature superconductivity achieved
• MIT Technology Review
  Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time
• Scientific America
  First Room-Temperature Superconductor Excites and Baffles Scientists 
• Physicsworld
  Superconductivity endures to 15 °C in high-pressure material
• Quantamagazine
  Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time –
• Interview with German National Radio
  The holy grail of solid state physics

Superconductivity to 262 kelvin via catalyzed hydrogenation of yttrium at high pressures

Elliot Snider, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Raymond McBride, Noah Meyers, Keith Lawler, Ashkan Salamat, Ranga P. Dias Nature Comm, in press.

Monolayer Graphene under Pressure: Novel Technique for Resistivity Measurements into the Megabar Regime

Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Ranga P. Dias Submitted

Quantum phase transition in solid hydrogen at high pressure

Ranga P. Dias, Ori Noked, Isaac F. Silvera Physical Review B 100 (18), 184112 (2019)

Anomalous Conductivity in the Rutile Structure Driven by Local Disorder

Dean Smith, Daniel Sneed, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Elliot Snider, G. Alexander Smith, Christian Childs, Jeffrey S. Pigott, Nenad Velisavljevic, Changyong Park, Keith V. Lawler, Ranga P. Dias, and Ashkan Salamat J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 10, 5351−5356 (2019)

Observation of the Wigner-Huntington Transition to Solid Metallic Hydrogen

Ranga P. Dias, Isaac F. Silvera
Science 355, 715-718 (2017)

Publication highlights and reports about this work

• The Harvard Gazette
  Advance in high-pressure physics
• The New York Times
  Hydrogen Squeezed Into a Metal, Possibly Solid, Harvard Physicists Say
• Independent
  Hydrogen turned into metal in stunning act of alchemy that could revolutionise technology and spaceflight
• BBC Science in Action
  Making Metallic Hydrogen
• NewScientist
  Metallic hydrogen finally made in lab at mind-boggling pressure

Metallic hydrogen

Isaac F. Silvera, Ranga P. Dias, Ori Noked, Ashkan Salamat, Mohamed Zaghoo J. Low. Temp. Phys. 142, 1-6 (2017)

Dense Carbon Monoxide to 160 GPa: Polymerization to a Two-Dimensional Layered Solid

J. Chem. Phys. C 120, 27548-27554 (2016)
Young-Jay Ryu, Minseob Kim, Jinhyuk Lim, Ranga P. Dias, Dennis Klug, Choong-Shik Yoo

New Phases and Dissociation-Recombination of Hydrogen Deuteride to 3.4 Mbar

Ranga P. Dias, Ori Noked, Isaac F. Silvera
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 145501 (2016)

Structural transitions and metallization in dense GeS

Ranga P. Dias, Minseob Kim, Choong-Shik Yoo
Phys. Rev. B. 93, 104107 (2016)

Crystal Structures and Dynamical Properties of Dense CO2

Xue Yong, Hanyu Liua, Yansun Yao, John S. Tse, Ranga P. Dias, Choong-Shik Yoo
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 11720-11724 (2016)

Pressure-induced Transformations of Dense Carbonyl Sulfide to Singly Bonded Amorphous Metallic Solid

Minseob Kim, Ranga P. Dias, Yasuo Ohishi, Takehiro Matsuoka, Jing Chen, Choong-Shik Yoo
Nature Sci.Rep. 6, 31594 (2016) R.D. and M.K. contributed equally as co-first authors

Densification, Polyamorphism and Pressure Induced Metallization at the Rigidity Percolation Threshold in Densified GeSe4 glass

Bora Kalkan, Ranga P. Dias, Choong-Shik Yoo, Simon M. Clark, Sabyasachi Sen
J. Phys. Chem. C. 118, 51105121 (2014)

Superconductivity in highly disordered dense carbon disulfide

Ranga P. Dias, Choong-Shik Yoo, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Minseob Kim, Takaki Muramatsu, Takahiro Matsuoka, Yasuo Ohishi, Stainislav Sinogeikin
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 11720-11724 (2013)

Time-Resolved Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction on Pulse Laser Heated Iron in DAC”

Choong-Shik Yoo, Haoyan Wei, Ranga P. Dias, Guoyin Shen, Jesse Smith, William Evans
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 377, 012108 (2012)

“Stubborn” triaminotrinitrobenzene:Unusual chemical stability of a molecular solid to 150 GPa

Alistair J. Davidson, Ranga P. Dias, Dana M. Dattelbaum, Choong-Shik Yoo
J. Chem. Phys. 135, 174507 (2011)

Insulator-metal transition of highly compressed carbon disulfide

Ranga P. Dias, Choong-Shik Yoo, Minseob Kim, John S. Tse
Phys. Rev. B. 84, 144104-1-6 (2011)