Superconductors at the Nanoscale: From Basic Research to Applications

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 508
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

By covering theory, design, and fabrication of nanostructured superconducting materials, this monograph is an invaluable resource for research and development. Examples are energy saving solutions, healthcare, and communication technologies. Key ingredients are nanopatterned materials which help to improve the superconducting critical parameters and performance of superconducting devices, and lead to novel functionalities.

Contents
Tutorial on nanostructured superconductors
Imaging vortices in superconductors: from the atomic scale to macroscopic distances
Probing vortex dynamics on a single vortex level by scanning ac-susceptibility microscopy
STM studies of vortex cores in strongly confined nanoscale superconductors
Type-1.5 superconductivity
Direct visualization of vortex patterns in superconductors with competing vortex-vortex interactions
Vortex dynamics in nanofabricated chemical solution deposition high-temperature superconducting films
Artificial pinning sites and their applications
Vortices at microwave frequencies
Physics and operation of superconducting single-photon devices
Josephson and charging effect in mesoscopic superconducting devices
NanoSQUIDs: Basics & recent advances
Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈ intrinsic Josephson junction stacks as emitters of terahertz radiation|
Interference phenomena in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids
Spin-orbit interactions, spin currents, and magnetization dynamics in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids
Superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Tutorial on nanostructured superconductors
1. Imaging vortices in superconductors: from the atomic scale to macroscopic distances
2. Probing vortex dynamics on a single vortex level by scanning ac-susceptibility microscopy
3. STM studies of vortex cores in strongly confined nanoscale superconductors
4. Type-1.5 superconductivity
5. Direct visualization of vortex patterns in superconductors with competing vortex-vortex interactions
6. Vortex dynamics in nanofabricated chemical solution deposition high-temperature superconducting films
7. Artificial pinning sites and their applications
8. Vortices at microwave frequencies
9. Physics and operation of superconducting single-photon devices
10. Josephson and charging effect in mesoscopic superconducting devices
11. NanoSQUIDs: Basics & recent advances
12. Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈ intrinsic Josephson junction stacks as emitters of terahertz radiation
13. Interference phenomena in superconductor–ferromagnet hybrids
14. Spin-orbit interactions, spin currents, and magnetization dynamics in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids
15. Superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids
Index

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