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  1. Lectures on the Physics of Highly Correlated Electron Systems VII: Seventh Training Course in the Physics of Correlated Electron Systems and High-Tc Superconductors ... (AIP Conference Proceedings) (Pt. 7)
  2. Copper Oxide Superconductors by Charles P. Poole Jr., Timir Datta, et all 1988-11-11
  3. The Physics and Chemistry of Oxide Superconductors: Proceedings of the Second ISSP International Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, January 16-18, 1991 (Springer Proceedings in Physics)
  4. Ceramic Superconductors: Proceedings of the XI Winter Meeting on Low Temperature Physics 14-17 January 1990, Cocoyoc, Morelos, Mexico (Progress in High Temperature Superconductivity) by Mexico) Winter Meeting on Low Temperature Physics 1990 (Cocoyoc, E. Sansores, et all 1991-01
  5. Thin Film Processing:Hi-Tc Superconductors.AVS Series 3 (AIP Conference Proceedings)
  6. HTS Thin Film And More on Vortex Studies (Studies of High Temperature Superconductors)
  7. Inhomogeneous Superconductors: Granular and Quantum Effects (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by Eugen Simánek, 1994-09-08
  8. Physics and Materials Science of High Temperature Superconductors (NATO Science Series E: (closed))
  9. Electrodynamics of High Temperature Superconductors (Lecture Notes in Physics) (Vol. 48) by Alan M. Portis, 1993-03
  10. Studies in High Temperature Superconductors Golden Jubilee: Golden Jubilee Volume (Studies of High Temperature Superconductors)
  11. Organic Superconductors (Including Fullerenes : Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Theory) by Jack M. Williams, John R. Ferraro, 1991-09
  12. Superconductor/Semiconductor Junctions (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics) by Thomas Schäpers, 2010-11-02
  13. Superconductors: Conquering Technology's New Frontier by Randy Simon, Andrew Smith, 1988-09
  14. Physical Properties of High Temperature Superconductors III (v. 3)

61. Magnesium Diboride Superconductors
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62. Are Superconductors The Future? - Chapter 6 - Are Superconductors The Future?
Are superconductors the Future? by Jacob Eapen. Chapter 6 Are superconductorsthe Future? Are superconductors the future? Supercomputers
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Are Superconductors the Future? Are superconductors the future? Supercomputers, SQUIDS, electric power transmission, motors, and magnetically levitated trains are just some of the things superconductors can do; without wasting any energy. The Department of Energy is using much of its money for the research of high temperature superconductors. A federal study says that superconductivity could be a $15 billion dollar business by year 2000. This chapter will discuss some of the things superconductors are being used for today. Transmission Lines
Transmission cables that carried electricity without any loss of energy would mean more electricity could be transferred than before. Regular transmission lines lose about 3% of the energy transferred. This would also mean saving money and not much amount of space would be needed. Motors
Motors made of superconductive wire would mean they would be smaller and more efficient. These could be especially used in submarines and ships.

63. Are Superconductors The Future? - Chapter 5 - High Temperature Superconductors
Are superconductors the Future? by Jacob Eapen. Chapter 5 High Temperaturesuperconductors. Since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered
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High Temperature Superconductors Since Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity, people have been creating superconductors with higher critical temperatures. If there were room temperature superconductors we could replace the conductors in our homes and cities with superconductors, thus saving billions of dollars. The Beginning of High Temperature Superconductors
High temperature superconductivity began in 1986 when Johannes Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller in IBM Research Laboratories in Zurich, Switzerland discovered a compound of barium, lanthanum, copper, and oxygen superconductor. The oxide superconductor had a critical temperature of 35K. Müller had decided to study oxide ceramics to see if they could become superconductive. The idea that ceramics could become superconductive was rather strange considering that ceramics are usually not very good conductors of electricity. Müller was interested in a group of ceramics called pervoskites. This group of ceramics were a compound of oxygen and other metals. Many scientist believed that oxides could not be superconductors. The reason he researched oxide ceramics was because the lab he worked in had researched oxides for quite a while, and scientists at the University of Caen in France had found traces that a ceramic compound of copper, oxygen, lanthanum, and barium had electrical conduction.

64. Technology : Superconductors & Superconductivity
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by W. J. Carr Jr. Hardcover - January 1983 List price: $252.00 Advances in High Temperature Superconductivity by D. Andreone R. S. Gonnelli E. Mezzetti Hardcover - March 1993 List price: $121.00 Advances in High-Tc Superconductors by J. J. Pouch (Edited by), S. A. Alterovitz (Edited by), A. F. Hepp (Edited by), R. R. Romanofsky (Edited by) Hardcover - December 1993 List price: $266.00 Lowest price on 03/31/2003: $209.93 Advances in Superconductivity by B. Deaver (Edited by), John Ruvalds (Edited by) Hardcover - August 1983 List price: $95.00 Advances in Superconductivity Hardcover - November 1995 List price: $250.00

65. Ceramic Superconductors
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66. Introduction To Superconductors
Copyright 1987,1989, 1999 Colorado Futurescience, Inc. AN INTRODUCTION TO THENEW OXIDE superconductors. by. Jerry Emanuelson Colorado Futurescience, Inc.
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Superconductivity was discovered in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, the Dutch physicist known for his research into phenomona at extremely low temperature. In 1908, Onnes had become the first person to liquify helium. He was investigating the electrical properties of various substances at liquid helium temperature (4.2 degrees Kelvin) when he noticed that the resistivity of mercury dropped abruptly at 4.2 K to a value below the resolution of his instruments. In 1933, W. Meissner and R. Oschenfeld discovered that a metal cooled into the superconducting state in a weak magnetic field expels the magnetic field from its interior. In 1945, the Russian physicist V. Arkadiev first performed the now-classic experiment of using this expulsion of a magnetic field to levitate a small bar magnet above the surface of a superconductor. Advances in superconductivity continued to proceed slowly. During the first 75 years of superconductivity research, the critical temperature (the temperature below which superconductivity is present) was raised by less than 20 degrees . In 1973, a niobium alloy was produced with a critical temperature of 23.2 K. This is still the highest temperature for a metallic superconductor.

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  • 68. BW Online | March 15, 2001 | A Plastic Future For Superconductors
    A Plastic Future for superconductors. Researchers at Bell Labs have founda way to make polymers conduct electricity with virtually no resistance.
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    69. Superconductivity - Uses Of Superconductors
    Uses of superconductors. The US Department of Energy are actively encouragesthe use of superconductors as energy efficient devices.
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    Uses of Superconductors
    Efficient Electricity Transportation
    Superconductors have many uses - the most obvious being as very efficient conductors; if the national grid were made of superconductors rather than aluminium, then the savings would be enormous - there would be no need to transform the electricity to a higher voltage (this lowers the current, which reduces energy loss to heat) and then back down again.
    Superconducting magnets are also more efficient in generating electricity than conventional copper wire generators - in fact, a superconducting generator about half the size of a copper wire generator is about 99% efficient; typical generators are around 50% efficient. The US Department of Energy are actively encourages the use of superconductors as energy efficient devices.
    At the moment, the problem lies with the critical temperature - unless a material is found that can superconduct above 300K, some sort of cooling system needs to be employed, which would be expensive, although companies are developing prototypes - in December 1998, Pirelli Wire built a test 150ft cable that transmitted electricity using high temperature superconducting materials.

    70. KLUWER Academic Publishers | Superconductors
    GBP Add to cart. Electromagnetic Absorption in the Copper Oxide superconductorsFrank J. Owens, Charles P. Poole Jr. January 1999
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    71. KLUWER Academic Publishers | Stability Of Superconductors
    Books » Stability of superconductors. Stability of superconductors. Add to cart.eBook available. by Lawrence Dresner Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA
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    In this definitive text in the field, the author gives a detailed account of the major problem of applied superconductivitiy-the stability of superconductors. His work focuses on the application of superconductiors to the construction of magnets. Students and engineers will discover the underlying principles of applied superconductivity and will learn how to solve mathematical problems with advanced methods of calculation. Contents
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    wires, cables and magnets for the superconductivity market. The companyis a world leader in the field of low TC superconductors.
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    73. AT/MAS/CC
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    Design and procurement of superconducting cables for all the LHC Project. Follow-up of the Raw Material (NbTi and Nb) supply to the cable manufacturers according to a very demanding specification. Follow-up of the LHC cable manufacturing distributed in 8 contracts. Measurements of the physical properties of the superconducting strands and cables in a dedicated laboratory at CERN, with all the necessary equipment, controls, instrumentation and tests to assure the cable quality. Organisation of all the measurements performed in the firms and at CERN in an Oracle Data Base to allow correct technical decisions and to ensure the traceability of the cables. Analysis of the properties of cable in magnets to feed back production procedures and to study, with MA section, the possible mixing schemes to easy magnet installation. Act as a technological centre of expertise and excellence in the design and qualification of new superconducting materials and wires and the know-how of superconducting cables in magnets. Server e-maill - January 2003 V. Remondno

    74. The ESF "VORTEX" Programme
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    77. E2TAC Technology Thrusts - Next Generation Superconductors
    High temperature superconductors based on YBCO has significant commercial opportunitysince operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen are now possible.
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    April 11, 2003 technology thrusts photovoltaics fuel cells superconductors ... infrastructure and facilities High temperature superconductors based on YBCO has significant commercial opportunity since operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen are now possible. HTS conductor can save up to 20 % of electrical output that is currently lost in transmission due to resistance. It also has applications in motors, generators, transformers and fault current limiters. However, the critical current and current density must be increased, while cost needs to be reduced before YBCO will be a cost-effective replacement for conventional materials. E2TAC is focused on improving superconductors. Superconductor Technology Development Areas: Process Optimization of Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
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    78. Emerging Device Technology: Fundamental Studies Of Superconductors At Microwave
    Emerging Device Technology Fundamental Studies of superconductorsat Microwave Frequencies, University Fast Find.
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    79. Superconductors See The Light At Shorter Wavelengths
    superconductors see the light at shorter wavelengths. Roman Sobolewski,a scientist from the Univ. of Rochester (Rochester, NY), along
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    As Sobolewski puts it, "Detecting single photons is amazing, and ours is one of a few detectors that can do so. But what really distinguishes our device is its speed 25 Ghz is very fast for an IR detector." Sobolewski says that conventional IR detectors are typically either much less sensitive or slower. In some ways the instrument, known as a hot-electron photodetector (HEP), is "a very sensitive electron thermometer," according to Sobolewski. When IR light hits it, the temperature of its electrons goes up. At an atomic level, when a photon hits the niobium nitride, an electron absorbs it and becomes extremely energetic. This rogue electron goes on to collide with other electrons, which in turn run into still others, causing a cascade, rather like a snowball rolling down a hillside and gaining in size. The temperature of these excited electrons quickly rises enough that the material itself temporarily loses its ability to be a superconductor. The result is an electrical signal that engineers can readily detect. This work marks one of the first times a superconducting material has been used to detect energy at such short wavelengths. Light at these energies is currently detected by other methods, including semiconductors, which must be carefully grown and are expensive to make.

    80. Superconductors That Work At Room Temperature
    The tubes would be the first superconductors to work at room temperature. CARBONWOLRDS superconductors That Work At Room Temperature illustration only.
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    Tiny tubes of carbon may conduct electricity without any resistance, at temperatures stretching up past the boiling point of water. The tubes would be the first superconductors to work at room temperature. Guo-meng Zhao and Yong Sheng Wang of the University of Houston in Texas found subtle signs of superconductivity. It wasn't zero resistance, but it's the closest anyone's got so far. "I think all the experimental results are consistent with superconductivity," Zhao says. "But I cannot rule out other explanations." At the moment no superconductor will work above about 130 kelvin (-143 ¡C). But if a material could carry current with no resistance at room temperature, no energy would be lost as heat, meaning faster, lower-power electronics. And electricity could be carried long distances with 100 per cent efficiency. Zhao and Wang studied the effects of magnetic fields on hollow fibres of carbon known as "multiwall carbon nanotubes". Each nanotube is typically a millionth of a metre long, several billionths of a metre in diameter and with walls a few atoms thick. The nanotubes cling together in oblong bundles about a millimetre in length. The researchers did not see zero resistance in their bundles. They think this is because the connections between the tiny tubes never become superconducting. But they did see more subtle signs of superconductivity within the tubes themselves.

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