From High-Temperature Superconductivity to Microminiature Refrigeration

ISBN-13: 9781461380405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str.

B. Cabrera; H. Gutfreund; Vladimir Z. Kresin

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This volume, From High-Temperature Superconductivity to Microminiature Refrigeration, was compiled as a commemoration to Bill Little's rich scientific career over the past 40 years or more. He has contributed many seminal ideas to such diverse fields of physics as phonon physics at low temperatures, magnetic flux quantization in superconductors, high-temperature superconductivity, neural networks, and microminiature refrigerators. The rrrst section of the book contains a collection of reprints from Bill Little's most important scientific papers. These papers are preceded by an introduction by Bill himself, which gives many insights into the thinking processes that Ie.

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SELECTED PAPERS OF WILLIAM A. LITTLE: A LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO THE REPRINT COLLECTION: Energy Transfer: Photofluorescence Decay Times of Organic Phosphors (J.B. Birks, W.A. Little). The Transport of Heat between Dissimilar Solids at Low Temperatures (W.A. Little). Superconductivity and Superfluidity: Observation of Quantum Periodicity in the Transition Temperature of a Superconducting Cylinder (W.A. Little, R.D. Parks). Possibility of Synthesizing an Organic Superconductor (W.A. Little). Superconductivity at Room Temperature (W.A. Little). Specific Heat of 3He and 4He in the Neighborhood of Their Critical Points (M.R. Moldover, W.A. Little). Neural Networks: The Existence of Persistent States in the Brain (W.A. Little). Physicist's Proof of Fermat's Theorem of Primes (H. Gutfreund, W.A. Little). Refrigeration: Scaling of Miniature Cryocoolers to Microminiature Size (W.A. Little). Historical: Organic Superconductivity: The Duke Connection (W.A. Little). Bloch and the New Superconductors (W.A. Little). WILLIAM A. LITTLE SYMPOSIUM AND INVITED PAPERS: Road to High Tc and Search for New Superconducting Systems (V. Kresin). Artificial Muscles Operating at (Nearly) Constant Volume (P.G. de Genes). Recent Advances in Cryogenics (W.A. Little). 10 additional articles. Index.