High-Temperature Superconductivity
Subtitle: An Introduction
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: November 20, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780121460907
Subjects: Condensed matter physics (liquids & solids); Electricity, magnetism & electromagnetism; Electronic devices & materials; Materials science; Superconductivity; Condensed Matter Physics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Superconductors & Superconductivity; Physics; Solid State Physics; Science / Physics; High temperature superconductivity; High temperature superconducti
First sentence: Before 1986, the "record high" for a superconducting phase-transition temperature was Tc 23.2 K for Nb3Ge (1973), and it was widely felt that this Tc value could at best be improved by only a degree or two in some exotic metallic alloy.