Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths
Subtitle: High Temperature Rare Earths Superconductors - I.
Contributors: Eyring, L.; Maple, M. B.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780080544373
Subjects: Rare earth elements; Alloys; Geochemistry; Rare earths; Mixtures
Description: This volume of the Handbook is the first of a two-volume set of reviews devoted to the rare-earth-based high-temperature oxide superconductors (commonly known as hiTC superconductors). The history of hiTC superconductors is a few months short of being 14 years old when Bednorz and Müller published their results which showed that (La,BA)2CuO4 had a superconducting transition of ~30 K, which was about 7K higher than any other known superconducting material. Within a year the upper temperature limit was raised to nearly 100K with the discovery of an ~90.
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Contents; Preface; Contents of Volume 31 (preliminary); Contents of Volume 1-29; Chapter 187. High-Temperature Superconductivity in Layered Cuprates: Overview; Chapter 188. Crystal Chemistry of Superconducting Rare-Earth Cuprates; Chapter 189. Single-Crystal Growth for Science and Technology; Chapter 190. Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamic Properties; Chapter 191. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance in Cuprate Superconductors and in Parent Compounds; Chapter 192. Positron Annihilation in High-Temperature Superconductors; title: Chapter 193. RBa2Cu3O7 Compounds: Electronic Theory and Physical PropertiesChapter 194. Electronic 4f State Splittings in Cuprates; Author Index; Subject Index