Handbook of superconductivity /

The field of superconductivity has tremendous potential for growth and further development in industrial applications. The subject continues to occupy physicists, chemists, and engineers interested in both the phenomena itself and possible financially viable industrial devices utilizing the physical...

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Main Authors: Poole, Charles P. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego, Calif. :
Publication Dates: 1999.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780125614603
Summary: The field of superconductivity has tremendous potential for growth and further development in industrial applications. The subject continues to occupy physicists, chemists, and engineers interested in both the phenomena itself and possible financially viable industrial devices utilizing the physical concepts. For the past five years, within the publications of the American Physical Society, for example, 40%-60% of all articles submitted to major journals in the area of Solid State Physics have been on the subject of superconductivity, including the newer, extremely important subfield of high temperature superconductivity (high Tc). The present volume is the first handbook to address this field. It covers both "classic" superconductivity-related topics and high Tc. Numerous properties, including thermal, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, phase diagrams, and spectroscopic crystallographic structures are presented for many types of superconductors. Critical fields, critical currents, coherence lengths, penetration depths, and transition temperatures are tabulated. Key Features * First handbook on Superconductivity * Coherence lengths and depths are tabulated * Crystallographic structures of over 100 superconductor types * Main results of several theories are submitted * Phase diagrams for synthesizing new superconductors are included.
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiii, 693 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780080533216
0080533213
Index Number: QC611
CLC: O511-62
Contents: Introduction, Physical Constants and Conversion Factors. Properties of the Normal State. Superconducting State. Models and Theories. Supercondutor Types. R.E. Gladysheviskii and K. Cenzual, Crystal Structures of Classical Superconductors. Cuprates. R.E. Gladyshevskii and Ph. Galez, Crystal Structures of High-Tc Superconducting Cuprates. Characteristic Parameters. Thermal Properties. Electrical Properties. Magnetic Properties. Mechanical Properties. W. Wong-ng, Phase Diagrams of High TC Superconductors.