Author : Horst Rogalla
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 143984948X
Even a hundred years after its discovery, superconductivity continues to bring us new surprises, from superconducting magnets used in MRI to quantum detectors in electronics. 100 Years of Superconductivity presents a comprehensive collection of topics on nearly all the subdisciplines of superconductivity. Tracing the historical developments in supe
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It was one hundred years ago this year that Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that by lowering the temperature of mercury to a blistering cold four degrees Kelvin, the metal became a "superconductor" and allowed electricity to flow through it with very little, if any, resistance. Fast forward one hundred years: now we are looking for new ways to store and transport energy -- energy we can use to get from one place to another, stay comfortable when the weather outside is not, grow enough healthy food to feed the population, and sustain our ways of life -- all while trying to protect the planet. Superconductors, with their potential to be über-energy efficient, are likely to play a crucial role in solving these challenges, and researchers at Brookhaven Lab are figuring out just how it can be done. Li will begin his talk with an overview of the first one hundred years of exploring superconductivity. He will also discuss the challenges of developing new superconductors and improving their performance for real-world energy applications, and then explain how basic science researchers at BNL are addressing those challenges.
Author : Rudolf P Huebener
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 3658323809
Rudolf P. Huebener presents the field of superconductivity research in a clear and compact way. He vividly describes how this area has developed in many directions since the discovery of superconductivity more than 100 years ago. This concerns materials, experiments on the physical principles, theoretical understanding and technical applications. Among other things, the essential deals with the Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect, magnetic flux quantization, the Josephson effect, the BCS theory and high-temperature superconductivity. This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Geschichte und Theorie der Supraleiter by Rudolf P. Huebener, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2017. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.
Author : A. V. Narlikar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191645400
Superconductors is neither about basic aspects of superconductivity nor about its applications, but its mainstay is superconducting materials. Unusual and unconventional features of a large variety of novel superconductors are presented and their technological potential as practical superconductors assessed. The book begins with an introduction to basic aspects of superconductivity. The presentation is readily accessible to readers from a diverse range of scientific and technical disciplines, such as metallurgy, materials science, materials engineering, electronic and device engineering, and chemistry. The derivation of mathematical formulas and equations has been kept to a minimum and, wherever necessary, short appendices with essential mathematics have been added at the end of the text. The book is not meant to serve as an encyclopaedia, describing each and every superconductor that exists, but focuses on important milestones in their exciting development.
Author : Dirk van Delft
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : V.P. Mineev
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 1999-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789056992095
Unconventional superconductivity (or superconductivity with a nontrivial Cooper pairing) is believed to exist in many heavy-fermion materials as well as in high temperature superconductors, and is a subject of great theoretical and experimental interest. The remarkable progress achieved in this field has not been reflected in published monographs and textbooks, and there is a gap between current research and the standard education of solid state physicists in the theory of superconductivity. This book is intended to meet this information need and includes the authors' original results.
Author : Stephen Blundell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 019954090X
Superconductivity is one of the most exciting areas of research in physics today. Outlining the history of its discovery, and the race to understand its many mysterious phenomena, this Very Short Introduction also explores the deep implications of the theory, and its potential to revolutionize the physics and technology of the future.
Author : Kristian Fossheim
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3642360599
This book is about the work of 10 great scientists; who they were and are, their personal background and how they achieved their outstanding results and took their prominent place in science history. We follow one of physics and science history's most enigmatic phenomena, superconductivity, through 100 years, from its discovery in 1911 to the present, not as a history book in the usual sense, but through close ups of the leading characters and their role in that story, the Nobel laureates, who were still among us in the years 2001-2004 when the main round of interviews was carried out. Since then two of them already passed away. For each one of the 10 laureates, the author tells their story by direct quotation from interviews in their own words. Each chapter treats one laureate. The author first gives a brief account of the laureates' scientific background and main contribution. Then each laureate tells his own story in his own words. This book is unique in its approach to science history.
Author : Inamuddin
Publisher : Materials Research Forum LLC
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2022-11-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1644902109
The book presents the current status of superconductor science and technology. It focuses on the design, properties and applications of superconductor materials. The superconductor categories covered include type-I, type-II, bulk, hard, soft, oxide, fermions, organic, iron, Lanthanide-based superconductors, high temperature superconductors and superconducting metamaterials. Keywords: Superconductors, Large-Scale Applications, Bulk Superconductors, Soft Superconductors, Oxide Superconductors, Lanthanide-based Superconductors, High Temperature Superconductors, Superconducting Metamaterials, Medical Applications, Magnetic Imaging Resonance Applications.
Author : Guy Deutscher
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9810230893
How new are the high c superconductors, as compared to the conventional low Tc ones? In what sense are these oxides different from regular metals in their normal state? How different is the mechanism for high Tc superconductivity from the well-known electron-phonon interaction that explains so well superconductivity in metals and alloys? What are the implications of the new features of the high Tc oxides for their practical applications? This interesting book aims to provide some answers to those questions, drawing particularly on similarities between the high Tc oxides and granular superconductors, which also present a short coherence length and a small superfluid density.
