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Contents: EBSD on High Tc Superconductors; Repair of Grain Boundaries and Enhancement of Critical Current Density by Preferential Chemical Doping in Y-Based High Temperature Superconductors; The Initial Growing Stage of Yba2Cu3O7 Thin Films On Yttrium Stabilised Zro2 Substrates; Critical Current Density and Matrix Chemical Ration in Melt Processed ND,EU,GD)-BA-CU-O Superconductor; Realstructure And Superconductivity of Yba2Cu3O7-? Films on Vicinal SrTiO3; Electrodynamic Response of Mgb2 Sintered Pellets and Thin Films; The Upper Critical Field and the Irreversibility Line oF MgB2; Hysteretic Magnetisation of Thick Yba2Cu3O7-d Films in Hearly Parallel Magnetic Fields -- Evaluation of the Hysteresis loss in Coated Conductors; Dynamics of Vortices in High Tc Superconductors Investigated by Density and Conduction Noise Measurements. ... Read more

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Contents: Transport AC Losses in Bi-2223 High Tc Multifilamentary Tapes; Numerical Calculation of AC Losses in HTS Wires; AC Loss in Supeconducting Power Cables; Studies of Vortex Localisation by Columnar Defects in High Temperature Superconductors; Superconductivity and Structure in La2-x Mx CuO4, (M:Ba, Sr and Nd, Sr); About the Extended t-J Model and Stripe Phases; Spin Stripe Dimerisation in the t-J Model; Subject Index. ... Read more

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This volume focuses on the topical area of magnetic superconductors. Rutheno cuprates and quaternary borocarbides are the two frontal materials forming the mainstay of the book. The authors are noted for their pioneering contribution in the field. In all, there are 6 chapters written by 18 researchers from 6 countries taking stock of frontal issues of both experiment and theory. Chapter headings: Phase Separation, Magnetism and Superconductivity in Rutheno-Cuprates; Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism in R2-xCexRuSr2Cu2O10-d(R=Eu and Gd); Magneto-Superconductivity in Rutheno-Cuprates RuSr2GdCu28-d (Ru-1212) AND RuSr2(Gd0.75 Ce0.25)2Cu2O10-d (Ru-1222): A Critical Review; Therman Conductivity in Magnetic Superconductors; Magnon Specific Heat of the Antiferromagnetic Superconductors RNi2B2C [R=Tm, Er, Ho, Dy]; On the Role of the Electronic Structure in the Properties of Pseudo Quaternary Borocarbides. ... Read more

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This Golden Jubilee volume in the world's foremost series on superconductivity covers wide-ranging topics capturing the current excitement in the field. The broad areas include the advancement of high Tc theory, materials depicting unusual characteristics, materials' processing and defect structures for improved properties, their electromagnetic response, flux pinning, Josephson junctions and devices, and large scale applications. ... Read more

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The present volume is devoted to the normal state pseudogap discovered in high Tc cuprates, which is currently an area of great topical interest and still not fully understood.The articles, written by the renowned experts in the field, consolidate the experimental findings and present various theoretical models to explain the occurrence of the gap. ... Read more

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Contents: Nonlinear Effects During Vortex Motion in Superconductors; Visualisation of Vortex Pinning by Force Microscopy Based on Piezoresistive Detection; Studies of Vortex Pinning and Second Peak Effects; Variational Calculations of Vortex Structures in Bulk and Mesoscopic Superconductors; Optical Vortex Generation in High Tc Superconductors; Lack of Elastic Vortex Glass Behaviour of the Vortex System in Disordered High Temperature Superconductors; Flux Line Cutting in Granular High Tc Superconducting Tubes; Vortex-Matter Phase Diagram Observed by Time-Resolved Local Magnetisation of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+d System; Phase Transitions and Dynamic of the Vortex System in a Two Dimensional Superconductor with Defects: Monte-Carlo Simulation; Flux Dynamics and Vortex Phase Diagram of Highly Anisotropic High temperature Superconducting Thin Films; The Influence of Vortices on the Electromagnetic Phenomena in the High Tc Superconductors. ... Read more

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Section headings: Microstructure of Melt-Grown REBa2CU3O7-x Superconductors; Defects and Microstructural Engineering in Melt textured RE-123 Superconductors; Refinement of Y2BaCuO5 and Distribution of Microstructural Inhomogeneitities in Melt-Processed YBCO Superconductors; Real Domain Structure Originating in (110) Mechanic Twinning in YBa2Cu3O7-y; Microstructure and Superconducting Characteristics of HgxPbyBa2Ca2Cu3O8+s; Microstructure Studies in Ramp Type High Tc Josephson Junctions; Tranbsport in the Rare Earth-Nickel-Borocarbides (Rni2B2C); Superconductivity and Magnetism in Quarternary Borocarbides and Boronitrides. ... Read more

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This book contains eight chapters. The first three focus on three different layered systems, namely, mercurocuprate, BSCCO and RE-123 and present exciting features like their unusual chemistry, vortex physics and novel characteristics of the multilayers formed with some of them. The remaining five chapters of the volume describe studies carried out on recently discovered magnesium diboride, which superconducts at 39K. New and interesting work has been presented which describes, noteworthy advances in their flux pinning and mechanical properties and also bring out their future potential as this films and SQUID devices. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Volvo B9tl, Volvo Super Olympian, Volvo Ailsa B55, Volvo B10m, Volvo Buses, Nova Bus, Volvo B10l, Volvo B7rle, Prevost Car, Volvo B12ble, Volvo B10ble, Volvo B7tl, Volvo Olympian, Volvo B7l, Volvo B59, Volvo B7r, Volvo B58, Volvo B6, Volvo B5l, Volvo B12b, Leyland Bus, Volvo B57, Volvo B12m, Volvo B7. Excerpt:Leyland Bus was a British bus manufacturer. It emerged from the Rover Group (formerly British Leyland ) as a management buyout of the bus business. It was subsequently acquired by Volvo Buses in 1988 and the name finally disappeared in 1993. History A 2-axle Leyland Olympian in Hong Kong. See also (online edition) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Nova Bus is a bus manufacturer in North America , owned by Volvo Buses , and headquartered in Saint-Eustache, Quebec , Canada . History The factory was originally a General Motors plant for building city transit buses intended for the Canadian market. In 1987 GM divested its entire bus holdings by selling them to Motor Coach Industries (MCI), itself formed from companies formerly owned by Greyhound Lines . The plant was used to produce the Classic model for sales in Canada, while GMC's Rapid Transit Series (RTS) product was moved to join MCI's own designs at Transportation Manufacturing Corporation in Roswell, New Mexico . MCI decided to divest its urban rapid transit models in 1993, and Nova Bus was created to take over the Classic and RTS models at the Saint-Eustache and Roswell plants. The Classic and RTS were later dropped in order to concentrate on the Nova LFS , a low floor city bus, which was introduced in 1995. The last Classic model was produced in 1997. Sales of Nova LFS proved uncompetitive and Nova Bus closed their Roswell and Niskayuna, New York plants in 2002 to concentrate all ef... ... Read more

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This volume provides the readers an in-depth, yet concise, overview of the physico-chemical structures, luminescence and related properties of II-VI compounds which are being utilized and exhaustively studied these days for their applications in LED's, modern optoelectronic devices, flat EL screens and panels, infrared detectors, photovoltaic and thermal solar energy converters etc.The book, therefore, should be useful to a wide variety of people (working in the field of luminescence and related properties of II-VI compounds, i.e. advanced graduate students) and serve as a review to researchers entering in this field and working on these materials.It should also be useful to solid state spectroscopists, lasers physicists;electronic and illuminating engineering people, and all those professionals using these materials. ... Read more

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High-Tc superconductors have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics. This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines. For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminium wires of the same size. Many universities, research institutes and companies are working to develop high-Tc superconductivity applications and considerable progress has been made. This book presents leading research from around the world in this exciting field. ... Read more

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Superconductivity is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low losses. High temperature superconductors, such as La2-xSrxCuOx (Tc=40K) and YBa2Cu3O7-x (Tc=90K), were discovered in 1987 and have been actively studied since. In spite of an intense, world-wide, research effort during this time, a complete understanding of the copper oxide (cuprate) materials is still lacking. Many fundamental questions are unanswered, particularly the mechanism by which high-Tc superconductivity occurs. More broadly, the cuprates are in a class of solids with strong electron-electron interactions. An understanding of such "strongly correlated" solids is perhaps the major unsolved problem of condensed matter physics with over ten thousand researchers working on this topic. High-Tc superconductors also have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics.This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines.For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminium wires of the same size. Many universities, research institutes and companies are working to develop high-Tc superconductivity applications and considerable progress has been made. This volume brings together new leading-edge research in the field. ... Read more

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Superconductivity is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low losses. High temperature superconductors, such as La2-xSrxCuOx (Tc=40K) and YBa2Cu3O7-x (Tc=90K), were discovered in 1987 and have been actively studied since. In spite of an intense, worldwide, research effort during this time, a complete understanding of the copper oxide (cuprate) materials is still lacking. Many fundamental questions are unanswered, particularly the mechanism by which high-Tc superconductivity occurs. More broadly, the cuprates are in a class of solids with strong electron-electron interactions. An understanding of such 'strongly correlated' solids is perhaps the major unsolved problem of condensed matter physics with over ten thousand researchers working on this topic. High-Tc superconductors also have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics. This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines.For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminum wires of the same size. Many universities, research institutes and companies are working to develop high-Tc superconductivity applications and considerable progress has been made. This volume brings together leading research in this growth field. ... Read more

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Superconductivity is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low losses. High temperature superconductors, such as La2-xSrxCuOx (Tc=40K) and YBa2Cu3O7-x (Tc=90K), were discovered in 1987 and have been actively studied since. In spite of an intense, world-wide, research effort during this time, a complete understanding of the copper oxide (cuprate) materials is still lacking. Many fundamental questions are unanswered, particularly the mechanism by which high-Tc superconductivity occurs. More broadly, the cuprates are in a class of solids with strong electron-electron interactions. An understanding of such 'strongly correlated' solids is perhaps the major unsolved problem of condensed matter physics with over ten thousand researchers working on this topic. High-Tc superconductors also have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics. This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines.For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminium wires of the same size. Many universities, research institutes and companies are working to develop high-Tc superconductivity applications and considerable progress has been made. This new volume brings together new leading-edge research in the field. ... Read more

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no fundamental understanding yet
It is now 20 years since high Tc superconductors were discovered. A vast amount of research has been done. This latest book describes some of the conceptual and experimental boundaries. As the preface notes, some 10 000 researchers globally are working on this problem. Our understanding is still incomplete.

The text talks about some latest compounds that have generated interest. Especially the Ruthenium and copper oxides. The synthesis, structure and superconducting properties are summarised. Another topic is the making of high Tc superconducting fibers. Laser float zone melting seems the preferred choice. Lots of SEM micrographs and accompanying analysis, that delves into the crystallographic quality of these fibers.
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Superconductivity is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials at extremely low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect). The electrical resistivity of a metallic conductor decreases gradually as the temperature is lowered. However, in ordinary conductors such as copper and silver, impurities and other defects impose a lower limit. Even near absolute zero a real sample of copper shows a non-zero resistance. The resistance of a superconductor, on the other hand, drops abruptly to zero when the material is cooled below its 'critical temperature', typically 20 kelvin or less. An electrical current flowing in a loop of superconducting wire can persist indefinitely with no power source. Like ferromagnetism and atomic spectral lines, superconductivity is a quantum mechanical phenomenon. It cannot be understood simply as the idealisation of 'perfect conductivity' in classical physics. Superconductivity occurs in a wide variety of materials, including simple elements like tin and aluminium, various metallic alloys and some heavily-doped semiconductors.Superconductivity does not occur in noble metals like gold and silver, nor in most ferromagnetic metals. In 1986 the discovery of a family of cuprate-perovskite ceramic materials known as high-temperature superconductors, with critical temperatures in excess of 90 kelvin, spurred renewed interest and research in superconductivity for several reasons. As a topic of pure research, these materials represented a new phenomenon not explained by the current theory. And, because the superconducting state persists up to more manageable temperatures, more commercial applications are feasible, especially if materials with even higher critical temperatures could be discovered. This new book presents leading research from around the world in this dynamic field. ... Read more

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I can't speak to the quality of the editing throughout the book, but I found the Preface somewhat alarming.The first three paragraphs of the Preface were lifted verbatim from Wikipedia's article on superconductivity.No citation is given.(The content first appeared in Wikipedia on 18 Aug 2006, which predates the publishing of this book by over one year.)Hopefully the editing improves on later pages. ... Read more

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Results are given from investigations of impurity accumulations in pure silicon and germanium crystals as well as ionisation processes of impurity centres in alkaline-halide crystals activated by mercury-like ions. The photoexcitation mechanisms of non-equilibrium carriers in wide-band dielectrics are investigated together with photoexcitation mechanisms. ... Read more

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In this book, we investigate mechanism of charge carrier transport in organic semiconductor thin film devices (OTFDs). Numerical models for the current conduction in single layer OTFDs including both injection and bulk effect for both trap free organics as well as organics with traps exponentially distributed in energy are developed. The dependencies of the current density on the operation voltage, the thickness of the organic layer and the trap properties are numerically studied. ... Read more

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Superconductivity is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low losses. High temperature superconductors, such as La2-xSrxCuOx (Tc=40K) and YBa2Cu3O7-x (Tc=90K), were discovered in 1987 and have been actively studied since. In spite of an intense, worldwide, research effort during this time, a complete understanding of the copper oxide (cuprate) materials is still lacking. Many fundamental questions are unanswered, particularly the mechanism by which high-Tc superconductivity occurs. More broadly, the cuprates are in a class of solids with strong electron-electron interactions. An understanding of such 'strongly correlated' solids is perhaps the major unsolved problem of condensed matter physics with over ten thousand researchers working on this topic. High-Tc superconductors also have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics. This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines.For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminium wires of the same size. Many universities, research institutes and companies are working to develop high-Tc superconductivity applications and considerable progress has been made. This book presents the latest research in this blossoming field. ... Read more

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This book includes within its scope: studies of the structural, electrical, optical and acoustical properties of bulk, low-dimensional and amorphous semiconductors; computational semiconductor physics; interface properties, including the physics and chemistry of heterojunctions, metal-semiconductor and insulator-semiconductor junctions; all multi-layered structures involving semiconductor components; dopant incorporation; growth and preparation of materials, including both epitaxial (e.g. molecular beam and chemical vapour methods) and bulk techniques; in situ monitoring of epitaxial growth processes, also included are appropriate aspects of surface science such as the influence of growth kinetics and chemical processing on layer and device properties. The physics of semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices are examined, including theoretical modelling and experimental demonstration and all aspects of the technology of semiconductor device and circuit fabrication.Relevant areas of 'molecular electronics' and semiconductor structures incorporating: Langmuir-Blodgett films; resists, lithography and metallisation where they are concerned with the definition of small geometry structure. The structural, electrical and optical characterisation of materials and device structures are also included. The scope encompasses: materials and device reliability; reliability evaluation of technologies; failure analysis and advanced analysis techniques such as SEM, E-beam, optical emission microscopy, acoustic microscopy techniques; liquid crystal techniques; noise measurement, reliability prediction and simulation; reliability indicators; failure mechanisms, including charge migration, trapping, oxide breakdown, hot carrier effects, electro-migration, stress migration; package- related failure mechanisms; and, effects of operational and environmental stresses on reliability. ... Read more