Vortices and Nanostructured Superconductors

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Crisan, Adrian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Series in Materials Science, 261
• Subjects: Physics.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Magnetism.; Magnetic materials.; Nanoscale science.; Nanoscience.; Nanostructures.; Nanotechnology.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.; Nanoscale Science and Technology.

This book provides expert coverage of modern and novel aspects of the study of vortex matter, dynamics, and pinning in nanostructured and multi-component superconductors. Vortex matter in superconducting materials is a field of enormous beauty and intellectual challenge, which began with the theoret...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1 Vortex Deformation Close to a Pinning Center
• 2 Pinning-Engineered YBa2Cu3Ox Thin Films
• 3 Chemically and Mechanically Engineered Flux Pinning for Enhanced Electromagnetic Properties of MgB2
• 4 Critical current anisotropy in relation to the pinning landscape
• 5 Vortex avalanches in superconductors visualized by Magneto-Optical Imaging
• 6 Behavior of the second magnetization peak in self-nanostructured La2-xSrxCuO4 single crystals
• 7 Emergence of an interband phase difference and its consequences in multiband superconductors
• 8 Fluctuation modes in multi-gap superconductors.