Critical Current Limitations In High Temperature Superconductors

This volume will focus on the theory and experiments leading to quantitative understanding of the magnetic field and temperature dependence of critical current densities in high-temperature superconductors. Topics will include: critical currents and flux-pinning, flux flow and flux creep, anisotropy of critical fields and currents, properties of the flux lattice and the irreversibility line, magnetization, granularity. Contents:Critical Currents in Neutron Irradiated High Temperature Superconductors (H W Weber)Radiation Induced Disorder as a Unique Method for Studing Electronic States of HTSC's and Modifying Their Properties (B N Goshchitskii et al)Influence of Fast Neutron Irradiation on Various Types of HTSC Materials: Comprehensive Study (H Szymczak et al)Critical Currents and Angular Dependence in Magnetic a.c. Response: Test for Intrinsic Pinning (L Krusin-Elbaum et al)Why the Critical Current Densities of High Tc's Vary Anomalously with Temperature, Field and Time (S Senoussi et al)The Effect of the Intragranular Irreversible Magnetization on the Intergranular and Intragranular Critical Currents (S L Ginzburg et al)Bean-Livingstone Surface barrier in High Temperature Superconductors (M Konczykowski)Pinning Centers in C-Axis Oriented Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films (G Jung et al)The Effect of an Electric Current on Microwave Absorption in a YBaCuO Ceramic Superconductor (J Stankowski et al)and other papers Readership: Condensed matter physicists, electronic and electrical engineers and chemists. keywords:

In contrast to research on the fundamental mechanisms of High-Temperature Superconductivity, in recent years we have seen enormous developments in the fabrication and application of High-Tc-superconductors. The two volumes of High Temperature Superconductivity provide a survey of the state of the technology and engineering applications of these materials. They comprise extended original research papers and technical review articles written by physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers, all of them noted experts in their fields. The interdisciplinary and strictly application-oriented coverage should benefit graduate students and academic researchers in the mentioned areas as well as industrial experts. Volume 1 "Materials" focuses on major technical advancements in High-Tc materials processing for applications. Volume 2 "Engineering Applications" covers numerous application areas where High-Tc superconductors are making tremendous impact.

Drawing from physics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, ceramics, and metallurgy, high-temperature superconductivity (HTSC) spans nearly the entire realm of materials science. This volume presents each of those disciplines at an introductory level, such that readers will ultimately be able to read the literature in the field.

This Golden Jubilee volume in the world's foremost series on superconductivity covers wide-ranging topics capturing the current excitement in the field. The broad areas include the advancement of high Tc theory, materials depicting unusual characteristics, materials' processing and defect structures for improved properties, their electromagnetic response, flux pinning, Josephson junctions and devices, and large scale applications.

This volume will focus on the theory and experiments leading to quantitative understanding of the magnetic field and temperature dependence of critical current densities in high-temperature superconductors. Topics will include: critical currents and flux-pinning, flux flow and flux creep, anisotropy of critical fields and currents, properties of the flux lattice and the irreversibility line, magnetization, granularity.

Devoted to the preparation, characterization and evaluation of HTS electronic devices, the Handbook of High-Temperature Superconductor Electronics provides information on using high-Tc thin films and junctions to increase speed, lessen noise, lower power consumption and enhance upper frequency limits in superconductor electronics. Compiled by a gro