High-Temperature Superconductors

• Main Author: Saxena, Ajay Kumar. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 125
• Subjects: Physics.; Engineering.; Materials.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Structural Materials.; Engineering, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00712-5

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-Tc superconductors, critical currents, synthesis routes for high Tc materials, su...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The phenomenon, occurrence and characteristics
• 2. Crystal structure of high temperature superconductors
• 3. Critical Current
• 4. Synthesis of high Tc superconductor
• 5. Superconductivity in Cuprate HTSCs
• 6. The Proximity and Josephson effects
• 7. Theories of superconductivity
• 8. Applications of superconductivity.