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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor P.J. Ford, G.A. Saunders Klappentext The Rise of the Superconductors is an ideological chronology of the science that has produced superconductors. Starting with the liquefaction of helium! the Meissner effect! the development of type II superconductors! and the impact of Bednorz and Mller's Nobel prize-winning research in high temperature ceramic superconductors! the authors recount the rise of Tc materials and organic superconductors! particularly in fullerene materials! which earned their discoverers the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1996. Coverage includes the properties and behavior of superconductors and their impact on theoretical physics! Josephson effects! and large- and small-scale applications. This book concludes with an international perspective on the current state of the art. Zusammenfassung An ideological chronology of the science that has produced superconductors. It recounts the rise of Tc materials and organic superconductors, particularly in fullerene materials. It covers properties and behavior of superconductors and their impact on theoretical physics, Josephson effects, and large- and small-scale applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
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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.
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"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
