248 Pages
85 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
248 Pages
by
CRC Press
High-temperature superconductors are one of the most active and exciting areas of condensed matter physics research. From high-quality thin-films to friction-less transportation, their applications in industries such as telecommunications, environment and geology, medicine, nuclear physics, and security are just the beginning. The Rise of the Superconductors is an ideological chronology of the... Read more
Prologue
The long road to the discovery of superconductivity
Superconductivity reveals its mysteries
The breakthrough to high temperature superconductivity
Structure of the cuprates. CuO2 layers: the genie for high temperature superconductivity
A diversion: quantum mechanics, atoms and the free electron theory of metals
What causes superconductivity?
The giant quantum state and Josephson effects
Applications of superconductors: enabling technologies of the 21st century
Electronic applications of high temperature superconductors
Organic superconductors enter the race for the top
The continuing search for the physical origin of high-temperature superconductivity
Epilogue
The way forward?
References
Subject Index
The long road to the discovery of superconductivity
Superconductivity reveals its mysteries
The breakthrough to high temperature superconductivity
Structure of the cuprates. CuO2 layers: the genie for high temperature superconductivity
A diversion: quantum mechanics, atoms and the free electron theory of metals
What causes superconductivity?
The giant quantum state and Josephson effects
Applications of superconductors: enabling technologies of the 21st century
Electronic applications of high temperature superconductors
Organic superconductors enter the race for the top
The continuing search for the physical origin of high-temperature superconductivity
Epilogue
The way forward?
References
Subject Index
Biography
P.J. Ford, G.A. Saunders
"An excellent introduction to a fascinating area of condensed matter physics should benefit the novice and the experienced reader … . The authors deal well with the large amount of research in what has been one of the most intensively investigated areas of physics in the last 18 years."
- Materials Today, Vol. 8, No. 9, Sept. 2005
