Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths (eBook)

High Temperature Rare Earths Superconductors - I

L. Eyring, K.A. Gschneidner, M.B. Maple (Herausgeber)

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2000 | 1. Auflage
656 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-054437-3 (ISBN)

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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 Mü,ller 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 ~90K superconducting transition in YBa2Cu3O7-&dgr,. The announcement of a superconductor with a transition temperature higher than the boiling point of liquid nitrogen set-off a frenzy of research on trying to find other oxide hiTC superconductors. Within a few months the maximum superconducting transition reached 110 K (Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3010, and then 122K (TlBa2Ca3Cu4O11. It took several years to push TC up another 11 K to 133 K with the discovery of superconductivity in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8, which is still the record holder today.

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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 Muller 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 ~90K superconducting transition in YBa2Cu3O7-. The announcement of a superconductor with a transition temperature higher than the boiling point of liquid nitrogen set-off a frenzy of research on trying to find other oxide hiTC superconductors. Within a few months the maximum superconducting transition reached 110 K (Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3010, and then 122K (TlBa2Ca3Cu4O11. It took several years to push TC up another 11 K to 133 K with the discovery of superconductivity in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8, which is still the record holder today.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 10
Preface 6
Contents of Volume 31 (preliminary) 11
Contents of Volume 1-29 12
Chapter 187. High-Temperature Superconductivity in Layered Cuprates: Overview 20
Chapter 188. Crystal Chemistry of Superconducting Rare-Earth Cuprates 50
Chapter 189. Single-Crystal Growth for Science and Technology 86
Chapter 190. Phase Diagrams and Thermodynamic Properties 248
Chapter 191. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance in Cuprate Superconductors and in Parent Compounds 394
Chapter 192. Positron Annihilation in High-Temperature Superconductors 436
Chapter 193. RBa2Cu3O7 Compounds: Electronic Theory and Physical Properties 472
Chapter 194. Electronic 4f State Splittings in Cuprates 510
Author Index 566
Subject Index 640

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2000
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Anorganische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Elektrodynamik
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• ISBN-10: 0-08-054437-1 / 0080544371
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-054437-3 / 9780080544373