Superconductivity in D- And F-Band Metals: Second Rochester Conference

ISBN-13: 9781461587972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 648 str.

D. Douglass

Opis

The first Rochester conference on this subject in October 1971 brought together approximately 100 experimentalists and theorists, and that conference was considered successful;

Spis treści

Possibility of Excitonic Superconductivity.- Some Comments on the Excitonic Mechanism of Superconductivity.- Maximum Tc — Optimistic Evidence.- A Theory of the Electron-Phonon Interaction and the Superconducting Transition Temperature, Tc, In Strongly Scattering Systems.- Unexpected Superconductivity in rf. Sputtered Nb/Ge Samples.- Gap Anisotropy And Tc Enhancement: General Theory, and Calculations for Nb, using Fermi Surface Harmonics.- Anisotropy Phenomena in Cubic d-Band Superconductors.- The Effect of High Pressure on Superconducting Ternary Molybdenum Chalcogenides.- High Critical Field Superconductors.- On The Upper Critical Field of the Ternary Molybdenum Chalcogenides.- Phonon Spectra of A-15 Compounds and Ternary Molybdenum Chalcogenides.- Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies of the Phonon Spectra of Chevrel Phase Superconductors.- Phonon Anomalies in Transition Metals, Alloys and Compounds.- Theory of the Lattice Dynamics of Strong Coupling Systems in the Rigid Muffin Tin Approximation.- Phonon Anomalies in d-Band Metals and their Relationship to Superconductivity.- Electron and Phonon Properties of A-15 compounds and Chevrel Phases.- Direct Correlation of Observed Phonon Anomalies and Maxima in the Generalized Susceptibilities of Transition Metal Carbides.- Calculations of the Superconducting Properties of Compounds.- Pressure Dependence of Tc for Carbides of Thorium, Yttrium and Scandium.- Superconductivity in Niobium: Implications for Strong Coupling Superconductivity Theory.- Tunneling Study of Niobium using Aluminum-Aluminum Oxide-Niobium Junctions.- Calculation of the Electron-Phonon Spectral Function of Niobium.- Extended Defects in A-15 Superconductors.- Impurity Stabilization of Nb3ge.- Superconductive Tunneling into Niobium-Tin Thin Films — Abstract.- The Structure of Sputtered Superconducting Nb3ge Films Revealed by X-Ray Diffraction, Transmission Electron Diffraction, and by Tunneling.- High Temperature Resistive Phase Transition in A-15 High Temperature Superconductors.- Structural Studies of Order, Disorder, and Stoichiometry in Some High Tc Nb-Base A-15 Superconductors.- Defect Production and Stoichiometry in A-15 Superconductors.- Empirical Relations in Transition Metal Superconductivity.- Studies of the Transition Temperature and Normal State Resistivity of Nb3Ge AND Nb Films.- Saturation of the High Temperature Normal State Electrical Resistivity of Superconductors.- Evidence for Selective Electron-Phonon Scattering in the A-15 Superconductors Nb3Sn, Nb3Sb, and V3Si.- Interband Scattering Contributions to the Resistivity of A-15 Metals.- Superconductivity in Metallic Hydrogen.- Electron-Phonon Interaction and Superconductivity in Metallic Hydrogen.- Direct Measurement of ?2F in Normal Metals using Point-Contacts: Noble Metals.- Calorimetric Observation of a Phase Transition in the Superconducting State in Gd1.2Mo6Se8.- Some Surprises in Superconductivity.