Lectures on Superconductivity
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Lectures on Superconductivity

Fundamentals
Chapters Films
Basics
  • R=0 and Isotope Effect
  • Fermions, Bosons and Electron-Phonon Interaction
  • Quasiparticles, Cooper pairs, Tc
Theory
  • Ground state BCS (Composite Boson)
  • Theories of HTS
  • Ginzburg-Landau Equation
Critical Parameters
  • Jc-Bc-Tc and Latent Heat, Meissner Effect
  • Penetration Depth and Coherence Length
  • Type I and Type II, Abrikosov Vortex
  • Vortex Dynamics and Flux Lattice
  • Flux Pinning and Jc
  • Inter- & Intra-grain Currents
  • Neutron Irradiation
Measurement Techniques
  • B-H, M-H, AC Losses, Magnetic Hysteresis
  • Hall Probe, Magnetooptics
  • STS, PPMS, Jc(B,angle)
Index
Introduction
Fundamentals
Materials I
Materials II
Electronics
Applications
Credits
 
The Lectures on Superconductivity were produced by Bartek Glowacki as part of a project announced in 2002 by the European Network for Superconductivity, SCENET-2, with financial support from SCENET-2, the European Science Foundation and Pi-Shift, and the European Society for Applied Superconductivity. See acknowledgements and licensing conditions.