Handbook of Superconductivity

Charles K. Poole, Horacio A. Farach, Richard J. Creswick

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1999
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080533216
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Quantum Theory

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. - 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

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Handbook of Superconductivity
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Properties of the Normal Metallic State
• Chapter 3. Superconducting State
• Chapter 4. Models and Theories
• Chapter 5. Superconductor Types
• Chapter 6. Crystal Structures of Classical Superconductors
• Chapter 7. Cuprates
• Chapter 8. Crystal Structures of High-Tc Superconducting Cuprates
• Chapter 9. Characteristic Parameters
• Chapter 10. Thermal Properties
• Chapter 11. Electrical Properties
• Chapter 12. Magnetic Properties
• Chapter 13. Mechanical Properties
• Chapter 14. Phase Diagrams
• Index