Superconductivity has been a major focus in research since its discovery in 1911 . The discovery of a material that exhibits superconductivity at operating temperatures above 273 K and at atmospheric pressure (101 kPa) would have an enormous technological impact. It would absolutely revolutionize the fields of digital electronics and the electric power industry. For many years, all known superconductors were thought to exist within the bounds of Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory, which stated that the superconductivity of materials could not exist above temperatures of 30 K . It wasn't until 1986 when Johannes G. Bednorz and Karl A. Müller discovered a new class of superconductor in the cuprate family that exceeded this BCS theory threshold. . As explained in , "the superconducting cuprates are very different from conventional superconductors, in the fact that they are not traditional metals, but instead doped oxides that behave like bad metals. Often, the pairing for superconduction does not happen with electrons, but instead with the doped holes -which act as quasiparticles that pair up and behave like the Cooper pairs, but with opposite charge. It is still not fully known what drives the pairing mechanism to get superconductivity in these materials." Materials with these properties are deemed in the category of a type-II superconductor. Other types of superconductors have since been discovered beyond the cuprate family such as heavyfermion-based, buckminsterfullerine-based, carbon-allotrope, iron-pnictogen-based, nickel-based, and strontium-ruthenate superconductors among others.