Ceramic Metaconductor
A ceramic material doped with trace amounts of rare earth elements such as lanthanum to produce a new type of material that can act as either an insulator or a superconductor. A ceramic metaconductor has two states: it performs as an insulator at low power, or as a superconductor at high power. When the material changes states, from insulator to superconductor or vice versa, it creates a unique field effect that can be controlled.
Just as alternating current creates a magnetic field in a wire, a high-power, high-frequency alternating current creates a changing field state in a ceramic metaconductor. Controlling this field effect allows the manipulation of specific subatomic particles in useful ways; ceramic metaconductors are therefore the key to artificial gravity, thruster, and jump drive technologies.
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