T-SHIRT technology could make high-temperature superconductors almost as
cheap as chips. Chemists in Austria have developed a way of screen-printing
superconducting films to create complex circuits with zero resistance.
“Screen-printing is a technique that has been abandoned but we’re trying to
push this technology. We feel it has a lot of potential,” says Gerhard Gritzner
of the Institute for Chemical Technologies of Inorganic Materials at the
University of Linz in Austria, who carried out the work.
In screen-printing, a mask in the shape of the desired pattern is laid over a
substrate, and a liquid or paste forced through so…
