High-temperature superconducting materials: preparations, properties, and processing

✍ Scribed by Hatfield, William E.; Miller, John H

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of proceedings of a symposium organized by the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society on the preparations, properties, and processing of high-temperature superconducting materials. The proceedings include papers of new results presented at the symposium.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Foreword......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
Contents......Page 16
1. OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS: STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS AND MECHANISM FOR HIGH TC......Page 20
2. THE ADVENT OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS: CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS AND HALLMARK DEVELOPMENTS......Page 56
3. HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTION: AN OVERVIEW......Page 86
4. THE PHYSICS OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY......Page 98
5. DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY FOR HIDDEN HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTIVITY......Page 118
6. WHERE CAN NEW CLASSES OF HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS BE FOUND?......Page 126
7. PRECIPITATION OF SUPERCONDUCTOR PRECURSOR POWDERS......Page 140
8. SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS IN THE YBa2(Cul-xNix)3O7-δ SYSTEM......Page 150
9. PREPARATION AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF OXYFLUORIDES IN THE Ln-Ba-Cu SYSTEM (Ln = Y, La)......Page 160
10. OXALATE PRECIPITATION METHODS FOR PREPARING THE YTTRIUM-BARIUM-COPPER SUPERCONDUCTING COMPOUND......Page 172
11. HIGH-TEMPERATURE OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR THICK FILMS......Page 178
12. IODOMETRIC TITRATIONS AND XANES: TWO PERSPECTIVES OF THE COPPER VALENCE IN HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTING OXIDES......Page 186
13. IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE COPPER ATOMS OF THE CuO2 LAYERS OCCURRING VIA THE OXYGEN-COPPER-OXYGEN ATOM BRIDGES OF THE CuO3 CHAINS FOR THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE (TC > 90 K) SUPERCONDUCTIVITY OF YBa2Cu3O7-Y......Page 200
14. CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND LATTICE VIBRATIONS OF THE CERAMIC SUPERCONDUCTOR Lal.85Sr0.15CuO4: NEUTRON SCATTERING STUDIES......Page 230
15. OBSERVATION OF THE AC JOSEPHSON EFFECT INSIDE COPPER OXIDE-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS......Page 254
16. TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT CONDUCTIVITY OF OXYGEN-DEPLETED YBCO CERAMICS......Page 262
17. EFFECT OF SURFACE PROPERTIES ON METAL-OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR CONTACT RESISTANCE......Page 270
18. OBSERVATIONS OF THE DETERIORATION OF YBa2Cu3O7 USING A NEW SUPERCONDUCTOR CHARACTERIZATION CRYOSTAT......Page 280
19. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, THERMOGRAVIMETRY, EPR, ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, AND X-RAY DIFFRACTION OF YBa2Cu3O7-z......Page 286
20. OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF La2-xSrxCuO4......Page 294
21. INFRARED REFLECTANCE OF RARE EARTH-BARIUM-COPPER OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS......Page 302
22. SIMULATION OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES BY EMPIRICAL ATOM-ATOM POTENTIALS. IV. INTERPRETATION OF THE RAMAN AND INFRARED SPECTRA OF La2-xMxCuO4......Page 308
23. INVESTIGATION OF Y-Ba-Cu-O SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS BY POSITRON ANNIHILATION LIFETIME SPECTROSCOPY......Page 324
24. MAGNETIC ANOMALIES IN THE RARE EARTH OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS GdBa2Cu3O7-x AND YbBa 2Cu3O7-x......Page 332
25. THE LOW-TEMPERATURE SPECIFIC HEAT OF YBa2Cu3O6+δ COMPOUNDS......Page 340
26. PROCESSING AND SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES OF OF GdBa2Cu3O7 -z......Page 346
27. PROCESSING AND MICROSTRUCTURES OF YBa 2Cu3O7-σ......Page 354
28. RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENT PHASES IN THE Y-Ba-Cu-O SYSTEM......Page 368
INDEX......Page 386

✦ Subjects

Superconductors;TECHNOLOGY / Electricity;TECHNOLOGY / Electronics / General;TECHNOLOGY / Material Science;Electronic books