--- title: Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors,... description: MIT researchers have developed a method to grow ultrathin superconducting niobium diselenide at wafer scale while keeping it air-stable. By growing the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/researchers-make-air-stable-ultrathin-superconductors-for-more-scalable-quantum-devices-ntid5a3xj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors, for more scalable quantum devices | daily.dev og:description: MIT researchers have developed a method to grow ultrathin superconducting niobium diselenide at wafer scale while keeping it air-stable. By growing the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/researchers-make-air-stable-ultrathin-superconductors-for-more-scalable-quantum-devices-ntid5a3xj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ntId5a3xJ.png og:image:alt: Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors, for more scalable quantum devices og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Researchers make air-stable, ultrathin superconductors, for more scalable quantum devices **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary MIT researchers have developed a method to grow ultrathin superconducting niobium diselenide at wafer scale while keeping it air-stable. By growing the material underneath a graphene layer placed on a silicon dioxide substrate, the graphene simultaneously protects the fragile superconductor from oxidation and guides it to form a uniform monolayer over an inch in size. The team also developed an oxidation-free transfer technique and a method to integrate the thin film into superconducting microwave circuits without degrading its properties. The resulting material maintains superconducting behavior and exhibits high kinetic inductance, a key resource for compact quantum devices. The approach could eventually miniaturize superconducting quantum computing hardware and enable ultrasensitive quantum detectors for communications and cosmology. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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