Superconducting materials & devices

Superconductors, from the atom up.

We design superconducting materials and the processes that make them, test them in the lab, and take them to pilot production for AI, fusion, quantum, the grid, and medicine.

How it works Discuss a project

Individual atoms on the surface of a superconductor crystal, measured with a scanning tunneling microscope at Georgia Tech.

AtomsMeasured

Ceramic targetMaterial

Coated tapeConductor

Magnet coilComponent

Power cableSystem

The machineDevice

Atoms measured at Georgia Tech.

Lab work
Measurement
Materials and pilot production
Programs
Counsel

Our team comes from
KOPEX USA
Hyunsung TNC

The platform

The search runs on GPUs.

AI agents and generative models propose the candidates, and GPU-parallel simulations test every one against the physics. Partners make and measure the top of the ranking, and every result retrains the models.

A representative search

candidate routes still standing · from 3,214,880

FORMS A PHASE418,220
STABLE AT 1 ATM62,140
CARRIES Jc AT FIELD8,930
SYNTHESIS ROUTE1,104
COST PER kA·m143
SCALES TO LENGTH12 worth making

These counts are representative, and six of the cuts are named.

GenerateAI agents and generative models
SimulateGPU-parallel solver sweeps
RankProprietary ranking algorithms
LearnLab results retrain the models

Inside the platform

Contours of a superconducting gap map, measured at Georgia Tech.

Where it goes

Five industries that need better superconductors.

01AI data centers
950 TWhdata-center electricity by 2030, roughly double 2025
AI is running short of power.
Superconductors carry far more current in a smaller cable, from the grid to the rack.
Source: IEA, Key questions on energy and AI (opens in a new tab)
02Fusion
$9.8Braised by fusion companies
Stronger magnets make smaller reactors.
Fusion power rises steeply with magnetic field, and superconducting tape can reach that field in a smaller machine.
Source: Fusion Industry Association, 2025 (opens in a new tab)
03Quantum computing
$28–72Bquantum computing revenue by 2035
Coherence is a materials problem.
Leading quantum processors are superconducting circuits, limited by the films and interfaces they are made of.
Source: McKinsey Quantum Technology Monitor, 2025 (opens in a new tab)
04The grid
$400Binvested in grids every year
The same trench can carry far more power.
Superconducting cables carry several times the power of copper in the same space.
Source: IEA, World Energy Investment 2025 (opens in a new tab)
05Medicine
35,000+MRI scanners on superconducting magnets, of close to 50,000
Most MRI scanners already use superconductors.
MRI magnets are superconducting and cooled with liquid helium, and a conductor that works warmer could do without it.
Source: Superconductor Science and Technology, 2017 (opens in a new tab)

The prize

Every superconducting machine is limited by how cold it has to run.

4 KLiquid helium
77 KLiquid nitrogen
135 KDurable recordHg-1223, 1993
293 KA warm room

158 K short of a warm room

Another research group set the 135 K record, at ambient pressure.

What a warmer superconductor changes

MRI needs no liquid helium.
Power cables cost far less to cool.
Fusion magnets shrink.
AI data centers move more power through less copper.

Business model

We earn from programs now and from royalties at scale.

Development programs pay us today, platform software licenses come next, and at scale we license the materials and processes we own.

Development programs
01Revenue today
A fee per program.
Platform licenses
02Next
A license per workspace.
Materials and process licensing
03At scale
A royalty on every unit.

Schematic of the model, not a forecast.

Traction

Development work is under contract.

Revenue: Major AI company; Development contract with a major AI company
Deployed: Live with CAN Superconductors today
IP: 20+; Patents issued and pending
Materials: 5; Proposed materials in synthesisEach is predicted to superconduct at 100 kelvin or higher, warmer than liquid nitrogen at 77 kelvin. None has yet been independently established as superconducting.

We have been making superconductors for three decades. What this search returns is a route our own line can run, with the numbers we would have asked for.

Jan PlecháčekCEO, CAN Superconductors

Team

Scientists and operators run the company.

Charlie Moon

Co-founder · Chief Executive Officer

KOPEX USA
Hyunsung TNC

Charlie brings twenty-five years of executive leadership across industrial manufacturing, AI medical imaging, and pharmaceutical nanotechnology, including fifteen as CEO of KOPEX USA.

Davis Rens

Founder

Davis graduated from UC Berkeley at 20 with Chemistry and Physics degrees, a 4.0 GPA, and Highest Honors. At Rigetti Computing, he engineered cryogenic systems.