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A number of devices utilizing HTS technology are being installed in electric grids worldwide but there is no single source or book that discusses design and manufacturing issues relating to power applications of HTS. This book will provide a single source illustrating design, analysis and manufacturing concepts for different power devices utilizing HTS.  Engineers at OEM, utilities, industry and universities will be able to understand the basic theory, perform design and analysis for different devices. Each chapter will be dedicated to a specific device; i.e. motors, generators, cables, etc.  For each device, the book will discuss its history, advantages offered by the HTS technology, contrast between conventional and HTS device design approaches, design and performance analyses. It will also provide examples of devices built to date utilizing the HTS technology.

--- The High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) is one of the most promising technologies to reduce electric losses and to increase the efficiency of power equipment. But up to now, there was no authored book available on this field.  The book of Swarn Kalsi, a leading expert on the HTS subject, gives an outstanding survey of the HTS technology itself as well as of the design rules, performance analyses and manufacturing concepts for power application related devices. It thoroughly compares conventional and HTS approaches for device design and provides significant examples of devices utilizing the HTS technology today.  The book is useful for a broad spectrum of professionals worldwide, i.e. students, teaching staff, OEM designers as well as users in industry and electric utilities.

Prof. Dr. Rolf Hellinger, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Research and Technologies, Power Components and Thermodynamic Processes

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Superconductivity is the ability of certain materials to conduct electrical current with no resistance and extremely low losses. High temperature superconductors, such as La2-xSrxCuOx (Tc=40K) and YBa2Cu3O7-x (Tc=90K), were discovered in 1987 and have been actively studied since. In spite of an intense, world-wide, research effort during this time, a complete understanding of the copper oxide (cuprate) materials is still lacking. Many fundamental questions are unanswered, particularly the mechanism by which high-Tc superconductivity occurs. More broadly, the cuprates are in a class of solids with strong electron-electron interactions. An understanding of such "strongly correlated" solids is perhaps the major unsolved problem of condensed matter physics with over ten thousand researchers working on this topic.
High-Tc superconductors also have significant potential for applications in technologies ranging from electric power generation and transmission to digital electronics. This ability to carry large amounts of current can be applied to electric power devices such as motors and generators, and to electricity transmission in power lines. For example, superconductors can carry as much as 100 times the amount of electricity of ordinary copper or aluminum wires of the same size.

This volume presents new and significant research on yttrium barium copper oxide superconductors, often abbreviated YBCO, is a chemical compound with the formula YBa2Cu3O7. This material, a famous "high-temperature superconductor", achieved prominence because it was the first material to superconduct above the boiling point of nitrogen.
All materials developed before YBCO became superconducting only at temperatures near the boiling points of liquid helium or liquid hydrogen (Tb = 20.1 K). The significance of the discovery of YBCO is the breakthrough in the refrigerant used to cool the material to below the critical temperature. ... Read more

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This book presents a highly integrated, step-by-step approach to the design and construction of low-temperature measurement apparatus.It is effectively two books in one: A textbook on cryostat design techniques and an appendix data handbook that provides materials-property data for carrying out that design. The main text encompasses a wide range of information, written for specialists, without leaving beginning students behind.After summarizing cooling methods, Part I provides core information in an accessible style on techniques for cryostat design and fabrication - including heat-transfer design, selection of materials, construction, wiring, and thermometry, accompanied by many graphs, data, and clear examples.Part II gives a practical user's perspective of sample mounting techniques and contact technology.Part III applies the information from Parts I and II to the measurement and analysis of superconductor critical currents, including in-depth measurement techniques and the latest developments in data analysis and scaling theory. The appendix is a ready reference handbook for cryostat design, encompassing seventy tables compiled from the contributions of experts and over fifty years of literature. ... Read more

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The original Russian edition is based on a lecture course given by the author and provides a modern treatment of the physics of superconductors with special attention paid to the physical interpretation of the phenomena. This revised English translation has been enlarged by the inclusion of such new developments as High Temperature Superconductivity, and, as such, is the most up-to-date textbook on the subject available.
The editor, Paul Müller, is himself a winner of the Walter Schottky Award for Solid State Research. ... Read more

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Ferromagnetism and superconductivity have long been thought to be mutually exclusive. Recently however it was found that the compounds UGe2, URhGe and UIr belong to a class of materials in which ferromagnetisme and superconductivity appear simultaneously. One characteristic property of these compounds is the existence of strong correlations between the magnetic moments of the uranium ions and the conduction electrons. These correlations lead to unusual magnetic properties at low temperatures. By applying external pressure the magnetic correlations can be varied. The fact that superconductivity in these materials is found only for those pressures, at which the magnetic correlations are strongest, indicates that the effective attracting force between the conduction electrons responsible for superconductivity has a magnetic origin. In this research the magnetic correlations of the ferromagnetic superconductors are investigated in order to better understand the unusual coexistence of ferromagnetism and superconductivity. Besides the dilatometry, specific heat, magnetization, and three-dimensional neutron depolarization techniques, the muon spin relaxation (MSR) technique is frequently used in the study of the magnetic properties of the ferromagnetic superconductors. The muon experiments indicate that unusual excitations exist in these materials which are possibly responsible for the superconductivity.

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This book presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarizing the last thirty-five years of work in the field. The first part of the book is devoted to an extended discussion of the Ginzburg-Landau phenomenology of fluctuations in its thermodynamical and time-dependent versions and its various applications. The second part deals with microscopic justification of the Ginzburg-Landau approach and presents the diagrammatic theory of fluctuations. The third part is devoted to a less-detailed review of the manifestation of fluctuations in observables: diamagnetism, magnetoconductivity, various tunneling characteristics, thermoelectricity, and NMR relaxation. The final chapters turn to the manifestation of fluctuations in unconventional superconducting systems: nanodrops,nanorings, Berezinsky-Kosterlitz-Thouless state, quantum phase transition between superconductor and insulator, and thermal and quantum fluctuations in weak superconducting systems. The book ends with a brief discussion on theories of high temperature superconductivity, where fluctuations appear as the possible protagonist of this exciting phenomenon. ... Read more

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The present book aims at describing the phenomenon of superconductivity and high-temperature superconductors discovered by Bednorz and Muller in 1986. The book covers the superconductivity phenomenon, structure of high-T_c superconductors, critical currents, synthesis routes for high T_c materials, superconductivity in cuprates, the proximity effect and SQUIDs, theories of superconductivity and applications of superconductors.

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This book is P. W. Anderson's long-awaited full presentation of his theory of high-Tc superconductivity in the cuprates. He realized that this striking new phenomenon needed for its explanation not just a new mechanism or "gimmick" but a radical reworking of the electronic theory of metals, especially those of low dimension. The many fundamentally new ideas that are first fully presented here will require a rewriting of the textbooks of many-body theory, which may take decades. The book incorporates full discussions of the experimental situation in these complex materials, both the normal and the superconducting states.The latestadvances are contained in a selection of re-and pre-prints of recent work by Anderson and collaborators.

The fundamental insight contained in the book is that the conditions for validity of the renormalized quasiparticle theory of metals ("Fermi Liquid Theory") are much more restrictive than had been thought, and are not satisfied in the CuO2 planes of high-Tc materials (among, probably, many other examples). This requires a new state of matter to be invented, new transport theories, and new mechanisms for superconductivity. This book will supersede all theoretical discussions of superconductivity that are now available in book form. ... Read more

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Presents a modern treatment of the physics of vortex matter, mainly applied to unconventional superconductors and superfluids but with extensions to other areas of physics.

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The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity almost two decades ago has been hailed as one of the most exciting advancements in modern physics. However, the full impact of high-temperature superconductors (HTS) will only be realized with the success of large-scale applications. For most large-scale bulk applications of HTS, long-length flexible wires that can carry a large amount of supercurrent are required.

Progress in High-Temperature Superconductors is a compilation of recently published articles by The American Ceramic Society and will be useful as a reference resource for those involved in this exciting field. ... Read more

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Presents a modern treatment of the physics of vortex matter, mainly applied to unconventional superconductors and superfluids but with extensions to other areas of physics.

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The present book aims at describing the phenomenon of superconductivity and high-temperature superconductors discovered by Bednorz and Muller in 1986. The book covers the superconductivity phenomenon, structure of high-T_c superconductors, critical currents, synthesis routes for high T_c materials, superconductivity in cuprates, the proximity effect and SQUIDs, theories of superconductivity and applications of superconductors.

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The book deals with the flux pinning mechanisms and properties and the electromagnetic phenomena caused by the flux pinning common for metallic, high-temperature and MgB2 superconductors. The loss originates from the ohmic dissipation of normal electrons in the normal core driven by the electric field induced by the flux motion.

Readers will learn why the resultant loss is of hysteresis type in spite of such mechanism.

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This book contains lectures on strongly correlated electron systems presented by eminent physicists. These lectures are up-to-date summaries of relevant subjects in the field of condensed matter physics. Contributions include: BCS theory of nodal superconductors; strongly correlated particle systems and composite operator methods; diagonalization- and numerical renormalization-group-based methods for interacting quantum systems; as well as phenomenological aspects of unconventional superconductivity.

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Conceived as the definitive reference in a classic and important field of modern physics, this extensive and comprehensive handbook systematically reviews the basic physics, theory and recent advances in the field of superconductivity. Leading researchers, including Nobel laureate, describe the state of the art in conventional and unconventional superconductors at a particularly opportune time, as new experimental techniques and field-theoretical methods have emerged. In addition to full-coverage of novel materials and underlying mechanisms, the handbook reflects continued intense research into electron-phone based superconductivity. Considerable attention is devoted to high-T_c superconductivity, novel superconductivity, including triplet pairing in the ruthenates, novel superconductors, such as Heavy-Fermion metals and organic materials, and also granular superconductors. What s more, several contributions address superconductors with impurities and nanostructured superconductors. Important new results on current problems are presented in a manner designed to stimulate further research. Numerous illustrations, diagrams and tables make this book especially useful as a reference work for researchers, students and teachers. Treating the entire superconductivity field, this unparalleled reference resource carefully blends theoretical studies with experimental results to provide the scientist and engineers an indispensable foundation for further research.

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This book describes the application of new high temperature superconducting materials to microwave devices and systems. It deals with the fundamentals of the interaction between microwaves and superconductors, and includes a basic description of how microwave devices can be constructed using these materials.Since the discovery of high temperature superconductors in 1986 there has been an enormous effort worldwide to develop and characterize these materials.Work on applications has proceeded more slowly however. Nevertheless, commercial applications are now beginning to arise, including use in passive microwave devices. The author carefully describes the advantages of using high temperature superconductors in these devices, enabling scientists and engineers to form a complete understanding of the subject.The rest of the book is devoted to examples of superconducting microwave filters, antennas and systems.The examples chosen relate not only to what can be achieved at present, but indicate the trends for future research and what may be expected for superconducting devices in the future. The book will appeal to researchers in electrical and electronic engineering. ... Read more

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This second edition has been brought up to date by the inclusion of an extensive new chapter on aspects relevant to high-temperature superconductors. The new edition provides researchers, engineers and other scientists with an introduction to the field and makes useful supplementary reading for graduate students in low-temperature physics.

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Auseful reference in type II superconductors
This book constitutes a standard reference for those who work in scientific and/or technological aspects of type II superconductors. It reviews in a quite condensed fashion a great deal of the present knowledgeon the vortex state of type II superconductors, although it does notinclude the -intensively explored-mixed state of HTc materials. Quite"esoteric" subjects as the Corbino disk, or the influence of contacts inthe noise spectra of type II superconductors are presented. Due to theextension of its scope within the field and its conciseness, it constitutesa nice reference book for those who work in type II superconductors. Theonly practical drawback is that units and notation are sometimes tricky.Other books in its same style, such as "Irreversible properties of type IIsuperconductors" by Ullmaier (1975) might have the same usefulness, though. ... Read more

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This volume focuses on the topical area of magnetic superconductors. Rutheno cuprates and quaternary borocarbides are the two frontal materials forming the mainstay of the book. The authors are noted for their pioneering contribution in the field. In all, there are 6 chapters written by 18 researchers from 6 countries taking stock of frontal issues of both experiment and theory. Chapter headings: Phase Separation, Magnetism and Superconductivity in Rutheno-Cuprates; Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism in R2-xCexRuSr2Cu2O10-d(R=Eu and Gd); Magneto-Superconductivity in Rutheno-Cuprates RuSr2GdCu28-d (Ru-1212) AND RuSr2(Gd0.75 Ce0.25)2Cu2O10-d (Ru-1222): A Critical Review; Therman Conductivity in Magnetic Superconductors; Magnon Specific Heat of the Antiferromagnetic Superconductors RNi2B2C [R=Tm, Er, Ho, Dy]; On the Role of the Electronic Structure in the Properties of Pseudo Quaternary Borocarbides. ... Read more