Defects in A-15 superconductors

✍ Scribed by L.R. Testardi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 523 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-2275
• DOI: 10.1016/0011-2275(77)90098-4

✦ Synopsis

Evidence is now emerging of a universal defect behaviour in A-15 compounds which has considerable importance to the superconducting as well as the normal state behaviour. The susceptibility of these materials to the defect formation may be another manifestation of their structural instability. While the nature of the defect is still unknown it apparently can greatly influence the properties of superconductors we make, and the problems for superconductors we cannot make.