| Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths: High Temperature Rare Earths Superconductors - I Volume 30 Contributor(s): Gschneidner, K. a. (Editor), Eyring, L. (Editor), Maple, M. B. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0444505288 ISBN-13: 9780444505286 Publisher: North-Holland OUR PRICE: $292.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2000 Annotation: This volume of the Handbook is the first of a two-volume set of reviews devoted to the rare-earth-based high-temperature oxide superconductors (commonly known as hiTC superconductors). The history of hiTC superconductors is a few months short of being 14 years old when Bednorz and Muller published their results which showed that (La, BA)2CuO4 had a superconducting transition of ~30 K, which was about 7K higher than any other known superconducting material. Within a year the upper temperature limit was raised to nearly 100K with the discovery of an ~90K superconducting transition in YBa2Cu3O7-&dgr;. The announcement of a superconductor with a transition temperature higher than the boiling point of liquid nitrogen set-off a frenzy of research on trying to find other oxide hiTC superconductors. Within a few months the maximum superconducting transition reached 110 K (Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3010, and then 122K (TlBa2Ca3Cu4O11. It took several years to push TC up another 11 K to 133 K with the discovery of superconductivity in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8, which is still the record holder today. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - General - Science | Chemistry - Physical & Theoretical - Science | Chemistry - Inorganic |
| Dewey: 546.41 |
| Series: Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 7" W x 10" (2.96 lbs) 656 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This volume of the Handbook is the first of a two-volume set of reviews devoted to the rare-earth-based high-temperature oxide superconductors (commonly known as hiTC superconductors). The history of hiTC superconductors is a few months short of being 14 years old when Bednorz and M ller published their results which showed that (La, BA)2CuO4 had a superconducting transition of 30 K, which was about 7K higher than any other known superconducting material. Within a year the upper temperature limit was raised to nearly 100K with the discovery of an 90K superconducting transition in YBa2Cu3O7-&dgr;. The announcement of a superconductor with a transition temperature higher than the boiling point of liquid nitrogen set-off a frenzy of research on trying to find other oxide hiTC superconductors. Within a few months the maximum superconducting transition reached 110 K (Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3010, and then 122K (TlBa2Ca3Cu4O11. It took several years to push TC up another 11 K to 133 K with the discovery of superconductivity in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8, which is still the record holder today. |