Superconductors/

"Superconductors is neither about basic aspects of superconductivity nor about its applications, but its main focus is on superconducting materials themselves. Unusual and unconventional features of a large variety of novel superconductors are presented and their technological potential as prac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Narlikar, A. V.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Superconductors.
Materials science.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=fSfRCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Superconductors+by+A+V+Narlikar&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHrZOBusbTAhXGL48KHSxQB6YQ6AEILzAC#v=onepage&q=Superconductors%20by%20A%20V%20Narlikar&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Onnes' discovery and one hundred years of superconductors. Onnes' discovery
  • One hundred years of superconductors
  • Progress with LTS and HTS applications
  • This book
  • Summary
  • 2. The superconducting state. Electrical conduction in metals and the origin of resistance
  • Microscopic nature of superconducting state
  • Summary
  • Appendix 2A. BCS ground state and the energy gap
  • 3. The superconducting transition and its basic phenomenology. Fundamental characteristics of the superconducting transition
  • The critical field Hc
  • The critical current
  • Resistive transition
  • Implications of perfect conductivity
  • Meissner--Ochsenfeld effect
  • London phenomenology
  • Penetration depth
  • Departing current density
  • Shortcomings of the London phenomenology
  • Intermediate state
  • Filamentary superconductors and Mendelssohn's sponge
  • Range of coherence and non-local theory
  • Interface boundary energy
  • Summary
  • Appendix 3A. Electrodynamics of a perfect conductor and London phenomenology
  • 4. Thermodynamics and general properties. Thermodynamic aspects of the transition
  • Thermal properties
  • Ultrasonic behaviour
  • AC and optical properties
  • Tunnelling in the superconducting state
  • Summary
  • Appendix 4A. Condensation energy
  • Entropy
  • Heat capacity
  • 5. Advent of type II superconductors. Ginzburg--Landau phenomenology
  • Sign of the surface energy and superconductor types
  • Mixed state and other characteristics
  • Summary
  • Appendix 5A. Ginzburg--Landau equations
  • 6. Critical current and flux pinning. Transport current in the mixed state
  • Driving force and the critical state
  • Vortex motion
  • Stabilisation of superconductors
  • Pinning centres
  • Pinning interactions
  • AC losses
  • Summary
  • 7. Superconductors in abundance. Low-temperature superconductors (LTS)
  • High-temperature superconductors (HTS)
  • Summary
  • 8. Niobium--zirconium and niobium--titanium alloys. The niobium--zirconium system
  • The niobium--titanium system
  • Summary
  • 9. A-15 superconductors. Crystal structure, stoichiometry, and ordering
  • Long-range order and Tc
  • Structural instability at low temperature
  • Potential binary systems
  • Pseudo-binaries
  • A-15 phase formation
  • Upper critical field and paramagnetic limitation
  • Critical current density and the nature of pinning centres in A-15s
  • Strain sensitivity
  • Summary
  • 10. Conductor development of A-15 superconductors. Liquid-solute diffusion
  • CVD process
  • The bronze process and formation of A-15 phase by solid state diffusion
  • Thermodynamics and kinetics of compound-layer formation in the bronze process
  • Modifications of the bronze process
  • Fabrication of Nb3Al conductor
  • Summary
  • 11. Chevrel-phase superconductors. Crystal structure and stoichiometry
  • Occurrence of superconductivity in Chevrel phases
  • Synthesis of bulk samples
  • Upper critical field
  • Critical current density : inherent problems and progress in raisingJc
  • Conductor development of Chevrel-phase compounds
  • Nature of superconductivity of Chevrel-phase compounds
  • Summary
  • 12. Rare-earth-based ternary superconductors and quaternary borocarbides. LTS systems with magnetic order
  • The interplay
  • Various ternary materials and their interplay behaviour
  • Quaternary borocarbides
  • Crystal structure and related aspects
  • Coexistence and interplay of Tc and Tm
  • Summary
  • 13. Heavy fermion superconductors. Discovery of HF superconductors
  • Quantum phase transition and quantum critical point
  • General features of anomalous normal state and unusual superconductivity
  • Short description of various HF superconductors
  • Special features of HF superconductors
  • Summary
  • 14. Organic superconductors. Evolution of organic superconducting salts
  • The (TM)2 family of quasi-one-dimensional superconductors
  • The (ET)2 family of quasi-two-dimensional superconductors
  • Superconducting fullerides
  • Graphite intercalation compounds (GICs)
  • Summary
  • 15. Superconducting magnesium diboride. Crystal structure and Tc
  • Conventional superconductivity of MgB2
  • Band structure and two superconducting gaps
  • Implications of two gaps
  • MgB2 for practical applications
  • Material synthesis
  • Nanoparticle doping for enhancingJc
  • Conductor development : wires and tapes of MgB2
  • Summary
  • 16. High-temperature cuprate superconductors. Genesis of HTS cuprates
  • General features of HTS cuprates
  • Prominent HTS cuprate systems
  • Substitution studies in HTS
  • Summary
  • 17. Thin-film technology and conductor development of HTS cuprates. Microstructural aspects
  • Prominent techniques for depositing HTS films
  • Conductor development
  • Summary
  • 18. Bulk HTS cuprates. General considerations
  • Melt processing of bulk YBCO samples
  • Effective pinning centres in bulk HTS
  • Ternary 123 bulk compounds
  • Trapped field
  • Mechanical strengthening
  • Summary
  • 19. Ruthenates and ruthenocuprates. A superconductor in the ruthenate family : Sr2RuO4
  • Unconventional superconductivity
  • Summary of the current status of ruthenate superconductors
  • Superconducting ruthenocuprates
  • Superconductivity, general features
  • Magnetic states and coexistence of TM and Tc
  • Cationic substitutions in Ru-1212 and Ru-1222, effect on Tc and TM
  • Summary
  • 20. Iron-based superconductors. Different FBS families, their crystal structures, and their general features
  • Electronic structure
  • Phase diagrams
  • Unconventional superconductivity of FBS
  • Materials synthesis
  • Upper critical field, anisotropy, and potential for applications
  • Summary
  • 21. Miscellaneous superconductors. Superconducting bismuthates
  • Cobalt oxide hydrate
  • Intermetallic perovskites free from oxygen : MgCNi3 and related superconducting compounds
  • Metallonitride halides
  • Pyrochlore oxides
  • Layered transition metal chalcogenides
  • BiS2-based superconductors.

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