Frontiers in Superconducting Materials


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Frontiers in Superconducting Materials gives a state-of-the-art report of the most important topics of the current research in superconductive materials and related phenomena. It comprises 30 chapters written by renowned international experts in the field. It is of central interest to researchers and specialists in Physics and Materials Science, both in academic and industrial research, as well as advanced students. It also addresses electronic and electrical engineers. Even non-specialists interested in superconductivity might find some useful answers.




Frontiers in Superconducting Materials


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The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.




Fundamentals and Frontiers of the Josephson Effect


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This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the Josephson effect, a topic of never-ending interest in both fundamental and applied physics. In this volume, world-renowned experts present the unique aspects of the physics of the Josephson effect, resulting from the use of new materials, of hybrid architectures and from the possibility of realizing nanoscale junctions. These new experimental capabilities lead to systems where novel coherent phenomena and transport processes emerge. All this is of great relevance and impact, especially when combined with the didactic approach of the book. The reader will benefit from a general and modern view of coherent phenomena in weakly-coupled superconductors on a macroscopic scale. Topics that have been only recently discussed in specialized papers and in short reviews are described here for the first time and organized in a general framework. An important section of the book is also devoted to applications, with focus on long-term, future applications. In addition to a significant number of illustrations, the book includes numerous tables for comparative studies on technical aspects.




Superconducting Materials


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This book presents an overview of the science of superconducting materials. It covers the fundamentals and theories of superconductivity. Subjects of special interest involving mechanisms of high temperature superconductors, tunneling, transport properties, magnetic properties, critical states, vortex dynamics, etc. are present in the book. It assists as a fundamental resource on the developed methodologies and techniques involved in the synthesis, processing, and characterization of superconducting materials. The book covers numerous classes of superconducting materials including fullerenes, borides, pnictides or iron-based chalcogen superconductors ides, alloys and cuprate oxides. Their crystal structures and properties are described. Thereafter, the book focuses on the progress of the applications of superconducting materials into superconducting magnets, fusion reactors, and accelerators and other superconducting magnets. The applications also cover recent progress in superconducting wires, power generators, powerful energy storage devices, sensitive magnetometers, RF and microwave filters, fast fault current limiters, fast digital circuits, transport vehicles, and medical applications.




Superconductors


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Unusual and unconventional features of a large variety of novel superconductors are presented and their technological potential as practical superconductors assessed.




High Temperature Superconducting Magnetic Levitation


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The authors begin this book with a systematic overview of superconductivity, superconducting materials, magnetic levitation, and superconducting magnetic levitation - the prerequisites to understand the latter part of the book - that forms a solid foundation for further study in High Temperature Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (HTS Maglev). This book presents our research progress on HTS Maglev at Applied Superconductivity Laboratory (ASCLab) of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), China, with an emphasis on the findings that led to the world‘s first manned HTS Maglev test vehicle "Century". The book provides a detailed description on our previous work at ASCLab including the designing of the HTS Maglev test and measurement method as well as the apparatus, building "Century", developing the HTS Maglev numerical simulation system, and making new progress on HTS Maglev. The final parts of this book discuss research and prototyping efforts at ASCLab in several adjacent fi elds including HTS Maglev bearing, Flywheel Energy Storage System (FESS) and HTS maglev launch technology. We hope this book becomes a valuable source for researchers and engineers working in the fascinating field of HTS Maglev science and engineering. Contents Fundamentals of superconductivity Superconducting materials Magnetic levitation Superconducting magnetic levitation HTS Maglev experimental methods and set-up First manned HTS Maglev vehicle in the world Numerical simulations of HTS Maglev New progress of HTS Maglev vehicle HTS Maglev bearing and flywheel energy storage system HTS Maglev launch technology




Frontiers in Electronic Materials


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This collection of extended abstracts summarizes the latest research as presented at "Frontiers in Electronic Materials", a Nature conference on correlation effects and memristive phenomena, which took place in 2012. The contributions from leading authors from the US, Japan, Korea, and Europe discuss breakthroughs and challenges in fundamental research as well as the potential for future applications. Hot topics covered include: Electron correlation and unusual quantum effects Oxide heterostructures and interfaces Multiferrroics, spintronics, ferroelectrics and flexoelectrics Processing in nanotechnology Advanced characterization techniques Superionic conductors, thermoelectrics, photovoltaics Chip architectures and computational concepts An essential resource for the researchers of today and tomorrow.




Selected Topics On Superconductivity


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Contents:The First Five Years of High-Tc Superconductivity (K A Müller)Different Factors which Govern the Optimisation of High-Tc Superconductive Cuprates Involving Bi-, Tl or Pb (B Raveau, M Hervieu, C Michel, J Provost, A Maignan, C Simon & D Groult)Superconductivity in Cuprates and Other Oxides (H R Ott)Organic Superconductors with Tc Higher than 10K (T Ishiguro & Y Nogami)Fundamentals of RVB Theory and Some Applications to High Temperature Superconductors (G Baskaran)Anyons and Superconductivity (S Das Sarma)Mott Transition in the Hubbard Model (B S Shastry)Superconducting Pairing in Layered Superconductors (S S Jha)Breaking the Log-Jam in Many-Body Physics: Fermi Surfaces Without Fermi Liquids (P W Anderson)Superconductivity in High Magnetic Fields from a Microscopic Theory (A K Rajagopal)Nonequilibrium Superconductivity (R Tidecks)Neutron Scattering Study of the High-Tc Superconducting System YBa2Cu3O6+x (J Rossat-Mignod et al.)Crystal-Field Excitations in High-Tc Superconducting Materials (A Furrer)Superconducting Granular Films (S-I Kobayashi)Transport Properties in the Mixed State of High Temperature Superconductors (A Freimuth)Physics of Josephson Effect and Recent Advances (A Barone & S Pagano)Tunneling Spectroscopy of Copper Oxide Superconductors (T Ekino & J Akimitsu)Superconductivity and Magnetism in Heavy-Fermion Compounds (F Steglich, U Ahlheim, C D Bredl, C Geibel, M Lang, A Loidl & G Sparn)Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies in Highly Correlated Systems: Heavy Fermion and High-Tc Superconductors (K Asayama)Pulsed Laser and Cylindrical Magnetron Sputter Deposition of Epitaxial Metal Oxide Thin Films (T Venkatesan et al.) Readership: Physicists, chemists and engineers. keywords:




Magnetocaloric Energy Conversion


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This book provides the latest research on a new alternative form of technology, the magnetocaloric energy conversion. This area of research concerns magnetic refrigeration and cooling, magnetic heat pumping and magnetic power generation. The book’s systematic approach offers the theoretical basis of magnetocaloric energy conversion and its various sub domains and this is supported with the practical examples. Besides these fundamentals, the book also introduces potential solutions to engineering problems in magnetocalorics and to alternative technologies of solid state energy conversion. The aim of the book is therefore to provide engineers with the most up-to-date information and also to facilitate the understanding, design and construction of future magnetocaloric energy conversion devices. The magnetocaloric energy conversion represents an alternative to compressor based refrigerators and heat pumps. It is a serious alternative to power generation with low enthalpy heat sources. This green technology offers an opportunity to use environmentally friendly solid refrigerants and the potentially high energy efficiency follows the trends of future energy conversion devices. This book is intended for postgraduate students and researchers of refrigeration, heat pumping, power generation alternatives, heat regenerators and advanced heat transfer mechanisms.




Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths


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Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: Including Actinides, Volume 56, is a continuous series of books covering all aspects of rare earth science, including chemistry, life sciences, materials science and physics. The book's main emphasis is on rare earth elements [Sc, Y, and the lanthanides (La through Lu], but whenever relevant, information is also included on the closely related actinide elements. Individual chapters in this release include Lanthanide Molecules for Spin-based Quantum Technologies, Modeling Intramolecular Energy Transfer in Lanthanide Chelates: A Critical Review and Recent Advances, and Superconducting Uranium-Based Materials. - Presents up-to-date overviews and new developments in the field of rare earths, covering both their physics and chemistry - Contains Individual chapters that are comprehensive and broad, along with critical reviews - Provides contributions from highly experienced, invited experts