High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials
Fundamentals - Processing - Properties Control - Application Aspects

1. Edition February 2006
XII, 299 Pages, Hardcover
Monograph
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Written by the leading specialists in the field, this comprehensive survey of the current knowledge and future requirements in bulk materials systematically covers the different aspects, linking materials physics and chemistry, processing, properties control, and applications.
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With its comprehensive review of the current knowledge and the future requirements in the field, this book presents all the features of bulk high temperature superconducting materials. Starting from physical and chemical fundamentals, the authors move on to portray methods and problems of materials processing, thoroughly working out the characteristic properties of bulk superconductors in contrast to long conductors and films. They provide a wide range of specific materials characteristics with respect to the latest developments and future applications guiding from fundamentals to practical engineering examples.
The authors are all leading international specialists involved in the field of high TC superconductor bulk materials since the beginning. Of utmost interest to engineers, scientists, and PhD students working in this field.
2. Growth and melt processing of YBCO
3. Pinning-relevant defects in bulk YBCO
4. Properties of bulk YBCO
5. Trapped fields
6. Improved YBCO based bulk superconductors and functional elements
7. Alternative systems
8. Peak effect
9. Very high trapped fields in YBCO permanent magnets
10. Engineering fundamentals
11. Inherently stable superconducting magnetic bearings
12. Application for electromagnetic energy converters
13. Further applications with HTSC-bulk materials
14. Calculation models for the interaction between magnetic fields and HTSC-bulks