Frontiers in Superconductivity Research

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2004
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-59454-005-9 (ISBN)

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Superconductivity is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low losses. High temperature superconductors, such as La2-xSrxCuOx (Tc=40K) and YBa2Cu3O7-x (Tc=90K), were discovered in 1987 and have been actively studied since. In spite of an intense, worldwide, research effort during this time, a complete understanding of the copper oxide (cuprate) materials is still lacking. Many fundamental questions are unanswered, particularly the mechanism by which high-Tc superconductivity occurs. More broadly, the cuprates are in a class of solids with strong electron-electron interactions. An understanding of such 'strongly correlated' solids is perhaps the major unsolved problem of condensed matter physics with over ten thousand researchers working on this topic. High-Tc superconductors also have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics. This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines. For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminum wires of the same size. Many universities, research institutes and companies are working to develop high-Tc superconductivity applications and considerable progress has been made. This volume brings together leading research in this growth field.

CONTENTS: Preface; Superconductivity via BCS and EEC Unification: A Review (M. de Llano -- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Mexico); Bi2Sr2CaCu2O 8+d Bicrystal c-Axis Twist Josephson Junctions: The Superior Phase-Sensitive Test of Order Parameter Symmetry (Richard A. Klemm -- Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik komplexer System, Dresden); Equilibrium and Dynamic Properties of d-wave ceramic superconductors (D. Dominguez -- Centre Atmico Bariloche, Argentina, H. Kawamurai -- Osaka University, Mai Suan Li -- Institute of Physics, Warsaw); Pairing Symmetry of the Superconducting Gap Analyzed by Means of Measurement for Inhomogeneous High-?c Superconductors (Hun-Tab Kirn -- ETRI, Taejon, Korea); Processing and Characterisation of MgB2 (Adriana C. Serquis and Xiaozhou Liao -- Los Alamos National Laboratory); Fabrication and Characterisation of Superconducting MgB2 thin films in-situ grown by dc Magnetron Sputtering (R. Di Caqua, A. Andreone, A. Cassinese, F. Chiarella, E. Di Gennaro, G. Lamura, M.G. Maglione, M. Salluzzo, R. Vaglio -- Universita degli Studi di Napoli and L. Maritato, S.L. Prischepa, M. Salvato -- Universita degli Studi di Salerno); The Role of Nonlocality in the Pinning Properties of Borocarbides Materials (A. V. Silhanek -- Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Belgium, J.R. Thompson -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, L.Civale -- Los Alamos National Laboratory, S.L. Bud'ko and P. Canfield -- Ames Laboratory); Vortices in low-Tc Layered TaGex Superconductors (Andreas Engel -- German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin and Benjamin J. Buck -- Victoria University of Wellington); Spin Glass Behavior in the Ru -- 1222 and Ru -- 1212 Rutheno-Cuprate Families: A Comparative Study (C.A. Cardoso and P.M. Araujo-Moreira -- UFSCar, Brazil, -- V.P.S. Awana and H. Kishan -- National Physical Laboratory, India, E. Takayama-Muromachi -- Superconducting Materials Center, National Institute for Materials, Ibaraki, Japan, O.F. de Lima -- UNICAMP, Brazil); Optical Properties of Unconventional Superconductors (Takashi Yanagisawa and Hajime Shibata -- Nanoelectronics Research Institute (NeRI), Ibaraki, Japan and Takashi Yanagisawa -- Osaka University); Thermomagnetic Shock Waves in the Vortex State of Type-II Superconductors (N.A. Taylanov -- National University of Uzbekistan); Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2004
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 180 mm
Gewicht	802 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-59454-005-5 / 1594540055
ISBN-13	978-1-59454-005-9 / 9781594540059
Zustand	Neuware