Flux Pinning in Superconductors

• Main Author: Matsushita, Teruo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2014.
• Series: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, 178
• Subjects: Physics.; Superconductivity.; Superconductors.; Low temperature physics.; Low temperatures.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Low Temperature Physics.

The book covers the flux pinning mechanisms and properties and the electromagnetic phenomena caused by the flux pinning common for metallic, high-Tc and MgB2 superconductors. The condensation energy interaction known for normal precipitates or grain boundaries and the kinetic energy interaction prop...