Applications of High Temperature Superconductors Vol II

Encyclopaedia of Applied Superconductivity in Electrical Engineering covers study of applied superconductivity in electrical engineering. Hightemperature superconductors are materials that behave as superconductors at unusually high temperatures.

The superconductor with the highest transition temperature that has been confirmed by multiple independent research groups is mercury barium calcium copper oxide at around 133 K.

The biggest application for superconductivity is in producing the large volume, stable, and high magnetic fields required for MRI and NMR.

The HTS can superconduct at temperatures above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen, which makes them cheaper to cool than low temperature superconductors. This volume “Applications of High Temperature Superconductors” contains eight chapters.

1. Iron Chalcogenides: A Study on High Temperature Superconductivity

2. Defect Structure Versus Superconductivity in Meb2 Compounds (Me = Refractory Metals) and One-Dimensional Superconductors

3. Superconducting Magnet Technology and Applications

4. Improvement of Critical Current Density and Flux Trapping in Bulk High-Tc Superconductors

5. Development and Present Status of Organic Superconductors

6. Magnetic Texturing of High-Tc Superconductors

7. Field-Induced Superconductors: Nmr Studies of (–(BETS) 2 FECL4

8. Composite Structures of D-Wave and S-Wave Superconductors (D-Dot): Analysis Using Two-Component Ginzburg-Landau

Citations, Index