MICROSTRUCTURES AND STRUCTURAL DEFECTS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS
by Zhi-Xiong Cai (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) & Yimei Zhu (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
Zhi-Xiong Cai is a theoretical physicist at the Materials Science Division, Department of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Cai received his PhD in 1990 from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University. He joined Brookhaven National Laboratory as a Research Associate in October 1990. He became a scientific staff in 1992, and was later promoted to Associate Scientist and Scientist. His current research interest includes theoretical modeling and computer simulation studies of structural properties of layered materials, magnetic properties of superconductors and permanent magnets, and classical and quantum relaxation theories of low dimensional systems.
Yimei Zhu is a principle investigator and group leader at the Department of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Zhu received his PhD in materials physics at the Center for Advanced Electron Microscopy, Nagoya University, Japan. He joined Brookhaven as Assistant Scientist in September 1988, and was later promoted to Associate Scientist and Scientist. He was awarded tenure in January 1997. His current research interest is electron microscopy studies of electronic and magnetic materials.
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.
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