The newsletter High-T c Update ground to a halt at the end of last year when its funding dried up. Founded by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science in 1987, during the early, heady days of high-temperature superconductors, the newsletter listed new preprints and provided commentary on advances in high-temperature superconductivity.
“The big discovery that got things going was in early 1987, of yttrium barium copper oxide. That has a transition temperature of about 90 K,” says Iowa State University’s John R. Clem, the newsletter’s science editor. High-T c Update chronicled findings in cuprates, magnesium diboride, and other superconductors. “Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide has turned out to be a wonderful playground for studies of vortex matter,” says Clem. In recent years, he adds, “the emphasis has been going more toward applications.”
High-T c Update’s electronic archives will remain available on the Web at http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/htcu.
