Nanoscience and Engineering in Superconductivity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Moshchalkov, Victor. (Editor), Woerdenweber, Roger. (Editor), Lang, Wolfgang. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: NanoScience and Technology,
• Subjects: Physics.; Engineering.; Optical materials.; Surfaces (Physics).; Low Temperature Physics.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15137-8
• Physical Description: XVIII, 395 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642151378
• ISSN: 1434-4904

For emerging energy saving technologies superconducting materials with superior performance are needed. Such materials can be developed by manipulating the "elementary building blocks" through nanostructuring. For superconductivity the "elementary blocks" are Cooper pair and fluxon (vortex). This book presents new ways how to modify superconductivity and vortex matter through nanostructuring and the use of nanoscale magnetic templates. The basic nano-effects, vortex and vortex-antivortex patterns, vortex dynamics, Josephson phenomena, critical currents, and interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism at the nanoscale are discussed. Potential applications of nanostructured superconductors are also presented in the book.