Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths 
Subtitle: High Temperature Rare Earths Superconductors - I (Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths)
Contributors: K.A. Gschneidner (Editor); L. Eyring (Editor); M.B. Maple (Editor)
Publisher: North Holland
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9780444505286
First sentence: Since 1986, dramatic increases in the superconducting critical temperature Tc have been achieved in the layered perovskite-like cuprate superconductors, as illustrated in the plot of the maximum value of Tc vs. date in fig. 1.