Cambridge International Science Publishing

ROOM-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Andrei Mourachkine
University of Cambridge

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ISBN 1-904602-27-4

326 pages
234 × 156 mm
Hard cover
January 2004

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 This is the first book on the subject of room-temperature superconductivity. The main purpose of the book is twofold. First, to show that, under suitable conditions, superconductivity can occur above room temperature. Secondly, to present general guidelines on how to synthesize a room temperature superconductor. The book begins with an introduction into the physics of the superconducting state and superconducting materials. The mechanisms of conventional, half-conventional and unconventional superconductivity are discussed in the following chapters. The last three chapters of the book are devoted to room temperature superconductivity. In Chapter 2, an attempt to review the basic properties of the superconducting state independently of any specific mechanism is made for the first time. In addition, four principles of superconductivity valid for any type of superconductivity are introduced in Chapter 4. The book is mainly addressed to specialists in materials science and in the field of superconductivity. At the same time, students will also benefit from reading the first nine chapters of the book.  

Contents:

Introduction
Basic properties of the superconducting state
Superconducting materials
Principles of superconductivity
First group of superconductors: mechanism of superconductivity
Third group of superconductors: mechanism of superconductivity
Second group of superconductors: mechanism of superconductivity
Cooper pairs at room temperature
Phase coherence at room temperature
Room-temperature superconductors
References Index