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MICROSTRUCTURES AND STRUCTURAL DEFECTS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS
by Zhi-Xiong Cai & Yimei Zhu (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
This book provides an extensive introduction to the microstructures and structural defects in high-temperature superconductors. It illustrates the application of modern experimental techniques as well as theoretical modeling tools in the study of these complex materials.
The readers are given an overview of the structure-sensitive properties, such as transport properties, and the effort to develop large-scale (high-current, high-field) applications for these materials. The effects of defects on the superconducting properties of these materials are described when feasible to put the study of microstructures in proper perspective.
Contents:
- Defects and Superconductivity
- Tools Used to Study the Defects
- The
Structure Characteristics
- Types of Defects
- Oxygen Ordering Related Defects in YBa2Cu3O7
- The Twin Boundary Structure in YBa2Cu3O7–d
- Structural Modulation in La2–xBaxCuO4
- Kinetics of the Alignment and the Formation of Bi-2223
- Charge Distribution
- Experimental Techniques for Grain Boundary Studies
- The Structure of Grain Boundaries
- Artificially Created Defects
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in materials science, condensed
matter physics, and chemistry.
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Pub. date: Dec 1998 |
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