High-Temperature Superconductors

✍ Scribed by Ajay Kumar Saxena (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science 125
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The present book aims at describing the phenomenon of superconductivity and high-temperature superconductors discovered by Bednorz and Muller in 1986. The book covers the superconductivity phenomenon, structure of high-T_c superconductors, critical currents, synthesis routes for high T_c materials, superconductivity in cuprates, the proximity effect and SQUIDs, theories of superconductivity and applications of superconductors.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
The Phenomenon: Occurrence and Characteristics....Pages 1-39
Crystal structure of High Temperature Superconductors....Pages 41-57
Critical Current....Pages 59-97
Synthesis of High T c Superconductors....Pages 99-121
Superconductivity in Cuprates....Pages 123-145
The Proximity and Josephson Effects....Pages 147-198
Theories of superconductivity....Pages 199-214
Application of superconductivity....Pages 215-218
Back Matter....Pages 1-5

✦ Subjects

Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity; Structural Materials; Engineering, general