High-Tc Superconductors and Related Materials
Subtitle: Material Science, Fundamental Properties, and Some Future Electronic Applications
By: edited by S.-L. Drechsler, T. Mishonov
Contributors: Mishonov, T.
Series: NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3:, 1388-6576 -- 86; NATO Science Partnership Sub-Series: 3: -- 86.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9789401007580
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Albena, Bulgaria, 13-26 September 1998
Description: A broad introduction to high T<sub>c</sub> superconductors, their parent compounds and related novel materials, covering both fundamental questions of modern solid state physics (such as correlation effects, fluctuations, unconventional symmetry of superconducting order parameter) and applied problems related to short coherence length, grain boundaries and thin films. The information that can be derived from electron spectroscopy and optical measurements is illustrated and explained in detail. Descriptions widely employ the clear, relatively simple, phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau model of complex phenomena, such as vortex physics, vortex charge determination, plasmons in superconductors, Cooper pair mass, and wetting of surfaces. The first comprehensive reviews of several novel classes of materials are presented, including borocarbides and chain cuprates.