Superconductivity — ICSC

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Preface

• Hetero-epitaxial growth of YBaCuO-MgO system

• Microfilamentary Bi₂Sr₂Ca₁ Cu₂O₈ fibers

• Experimental observations on Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O_y single crystals

• Growth structural and physical properties of doped and undoped high T_c Bi-based cuprates

• The great complexity of the superconducting copper oxides: some recent observations

• Cuprate superconductors: Phase stability of 123 compounds, novel features of Bi₂Ca_1−x Ln_xSr₂Cu₂O_8+δ (Ln = rare earth) and new thallium cuprates

• Effect of additives on the structure and superconducting properties of YBCO; Ag_x and BSCCO: Pbx superconductors

• Some interesting substitutional effects in La-, Y-, Bi- and T1-based high Tc cuprates

• Some thermochemical and thermodynamic problems in HTSC-chemistry

• Resistive transition and galvanomagnetic effects in high temperature superconductors

• Fluctuation effects in high temperature superconductors

• Modulation techniques for studying superconductors

• The specific heat of the high temperature superconductors near T_c

• Raman spectroscopy of high T_c superconductors

• Critical current densities in the high temperature superconductors

• Coupling nature of grains and critical current density in textured Bi(Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O tapes

• Dependence of Meissner effect on the shape of the specimens and magnetic field

• Critical current enhancement in epitaxial Y-Ba-Cu-O films by introduction of flux pinning defects

• Neutron scattering studies of magnetism in the high-T_c compounds

• Nuclear resonance studies in REBa₂ Cu₃ O_7−x superconducting and other related materials

• Progress in layered film fabrication for high-T_c superconducting electronics

• High-T_c superconducting junctions: problems and perspectives

• Tunneling spectroscopy of hole and electron doped superconductors

• Aspects of quantum coherence in HT_c superconductors: Flux quantisation in hybrid rings; Neutron diffraction and μSR studies of the flux line lattice

• Influence of SN boundary transparency on stationary properties of SNS variable-thickness bridges

• Junction technologies based on high T_c superconductors

• Generalised BCS pairing theory for anisotropic layered superconductors and their electromagnetic response

• Charge transfer polarisation wave in high T_c oxides and superconductive pairing

• Marginal fermi-liquid theory of the normal and superconductive state of Cu-O compounds

• Localization of quantum vacancies in a Mott insulator and delocalization by pairing

• Magnetization behavior of conventional and high temperature superconductors

• Intrinsic flux pinning and flux creep in oxide superconductors

• Correlated electrons, flux phases and superconductivity

• Supersymmetry of Cu 3d holes in high T_c superconductors by X-ray absorption spectroscopy