Vortex Electronics and SQUIDs

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kobayashi, Takeshi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hayakawa, Hisao (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tonouchi, Masayoshi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Topics in Applied Physics, 91
• Subjects: Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Magnetism.; Magnetic materials.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Engineering.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Magnetism, Magnetic Materials.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Engineering, general.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.
• Physical Description: XI, 305 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540448761
• ISSN: 0303-4216 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/b13750

Understanding the nature of vortices in high-Tc superconductors is a crucial subject for research on superconductive electronics, especially for superconducting interference devices (SQUIDs), it is also a fundamental problem in condensed-matter physics. Recent technological progress in methods for both direct and indirect observation of vortices, e.g. scanning SQUID, terahertz imaging, and microwave excitation, has led to new insights into vortex physics, the dynamic behavior of vortices in junctions and related questions of noise. This book presents the current status of research activity and provides new information on the applications of SQUIDs, including magnetocardiography, immunoassays, and laser-SQUID microscopes, all of which are close to being commercially available.