Superconductivity in new materials:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier 2011
Edition:1st ed
Series:Contemporary concepts of condensed matter science 4
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:The discoveries of new superconducting materials, most of them during the last 30 years, have served very much as the context for further developments in theory which continue to the present. In many of these cases, the observations of superconductivity in new materials were completely unexpected and therefore may be regarded as real discoveries. Even the most visible progress, which followed a search using, to some extent, conventional wisdom, was finally rather unexpected - the discovery of high-Tc superconductivity in copper oxides. This book presents superconductivity in this materials context and displays some of the underlying simplicity in the materials record that provided fuel for the theoretical developments. Not only is the phenomenon deeply interesting, the metallic systems where it plays out are as well, and superconductivity gives a very interesting window from which to view the nature of electrically conducting materials. The level is not advanced, yet allows the serious reader to access the current developments in the literature. Addresses in detail the exciting developments after 1980. Demonstrates that progress in superconductivity is to a large extent due to progress in materials synthesis and characterization. Gateway to the current developments in the literature
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 271 pages)
ISBN:9780444534255
0444534253
9780080958606
0080958605

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