Superconductors and Superconductivity: General Issues
The discovery of superconductivity, that is, the phenomenon by which current flow in material occurs without noticeable energy dissipation, has been recognized as one of the greatest scientific achievements of twentieth century.
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I. A. Parinov
Microstructure and Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors Second Edition
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I. A. Parinov Vorovich Research Institute of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics Southern Federal University Rostov-on-Don Russia
ISBN 978-3-642-34440-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34441-1
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To my wife, Nina
Preface
From the time of publication of the first edition of the monograph (2007), the rapidly changing world of superconductivity ensured a whole set of new discoveries and achievements in theoretical and experimental aspects, as technologies and applications. In my view, three main achievements generated constant interest of the scientific society to this area, namely (i) discovery of superconductive pnictides in 2008 with temperature of superconductive transition equal to 56 K that is near the liquid nitrogen temperature (77 K), allowing in many researches to relate these superconductors to HTSCs, (ii) active invasion of nanotechnology approaches and methods in processing and investigations of HTSCs that allowed one to significantly modernize
