Contents: Nonlinear Effects During Vortex Motion in Superconductors; Visualisation of Vortex Pinning by Force Microscopy Based on Piezoresistive Detection; Studies of Vortex Pinning and Second Peak Effects; Variational Calculations of Vortex Structures in Bulk and Mesoscopic Superconductors; Optical Vortex Generation in High Tc Superconductors; Lack of Elastic Vortex Glass Behaviour of the Vortex System in Disordered High Temperature Superconductors; Flux Line Cutting in Granular High Tc Superconducting Tubes; Vortex-Matter Phase Diagram Observed by Time-Resolved Local Magnetisation of...

This book contains eight chapters. The first three focus on three different layered systems, namely, mercurocuprate, BSCCO and RE-123 and present exciting features like their unusual chemistry, vortex physics and novel characteristics of the multilayers formed with some of them. The remaining five chapters of the volume describe studies carried out on recently discovered magnesium diboride, which superconducts at 39K. New and interesting work has been presented which describes, noteworthy advances in their flux pinning and mechanical properties and also bring out their future potential as...

The main topic of this book is unconventional superconductors which include the metal hydrides, organic superconductors, graphite and other carbon-based systems. Graphite and carbon-based materials are currently considered most intriguing in that they show both superconductivity (including the possibility of high or even extra high temperature superconductivity) and magnetism and they are of considerable topical interest. The book carries extended articles on tunnelling and magno-tunelling studies giving new insights into superconductivity of curates and of unconventional systems. The five...

Contents: Displacement Damage Effects in High Temperature Superconductors; Angular Dependent Vortex Dynamics in Superconductors with Columnar Defects; Swift Heavy Ion Irradiation Induced Enhancement in Flux Pinning and Some New Aspects of Flux Dynamics in High Tc Superconductors; Irradiation Induced Oxygen Knock-Out and its Role in Bismuth Cuprate Superconductors; Modelling the Defect Structures of HTS by Neutron Irradiation.

Part of a series on superconductivity, this volume covers topics which include the advancement of high Tc theory, materials depicting unusual characteristics, materials' processing and defect structures for improved properties, their electromagnetic respon

Six chapters report recent research on high-temperature superconductors from the perspectives of radio-frequency investigations, microwave surface impedance and device applications, mixed state and superconducting fluctuations in single crystals, circuits and systems, microwave and radio- frequency

Contains eleven chapters describing some of the frontal developments in research and applications of the high Tc superconductors.

Six chapters report recent research on high-temperature superconductors from the perspectives of radio-frequency investigations, microwave surface impedance and device applications, mixed state and superconducting fluctuations in single crystals, circuits and systems, microwave and radio- frequency