Recently, researchers at UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering, supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, have discovered an entirely new method of fabricating superconductors. In this study, the team did not employ traditional chemical methods but instead utilized photonic crystal cavities to create superconductors. This approach sensitively controls superconductivity by changing the physical environment rather than the chemical environment, thus enabling the design of superconductors without changing their chemical composition.

Researchers at QuTech have found a way to make Majorana particles in a two-dimensional plane. This was achieved by creating devices that exploit the combined material properties of superconductors and semiconductors. The inherent flexibility of this new 2D platform should allow one to perform experiments with Majoranas that were previously inaccessible. The results are published in Nature.