Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Comprehensive and easy to understand, this introductory text on superconductivity was especially written for the non-specialist. The author, an active researcher in the field for more than forty years, presents the fundamental considerations (without too much mathematics), describes the various phenomena connected with the superconducting state, provides experimental facts and discusses numerous examples for modern applications. The new high-temperature superconductors are also dealt with in detail.

For almost two decades now, the German version of this book - currently in its fifth edition - has been one of the bestselling standard works on superconductivity.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• 1 Fundamental Properties of Superconductors
• 1.1 The Vanishing of the Electrical Resistance
• 1.2 Ideal Diamagnetism, Flux Lines, and Flux Quantization
• 1.3 Flux Quantization in a Superconducting Ring
• 1.4 Superconductivity: A Macroscopic Quantum Phenomenon
• 1.5 Quantum Interference
• 2 Superconducting Elements, Alloys, and Compounds
• 2.1 Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors
• 2.2 Superconducting Elements
• 2.3 Superconducting Alloys and Metallic Compounds
• 2.4 Fullerides
• 2.5 Chevrel Phases and Boron Carbides
• 2.6 Heavy-Fermion Superconductors
• 2.7 Natural and Artificial Layered Superconductors
• 2.8 The Superconducting Oxides
• 2.9 Organic Superconductors
• 2.10 Superconductivity Due to the Field Effect
• 3 Cooper Pairing
• 3.1 Conventional Superconductivity
• 3.2 Unconventional Superconductivity
• 4 Thermodynamics and Thermal Properties of the Superconducting State
• 4.1 General Aspects of Thermodynamics
• 4.2 Specific Heat
• 4.3 Thermal Conductivity
• 4.4 Ginzburg-Landau Theory
• 4.5 Characteristic Lengths of Ginzburg-Landau Theory
• 4.6 Type-I Superconductors in a Magnetic Field
• 4.7 Type-II Superconductors in a Magnetic Field
• 4.8 Fluctuations Above the Transition Temperature
• 4.9 States Outside Thermodynamic Equilibrium
• 5 Critical Currents in Type-I and Type-II Superconductors
• 5.1 Limit of the Supercurrent Due to Pair Breaking
• 5.2 Type-I Superconductors
• 5.3 Type-II Superconductors
• 6 Josephson Junctions and Their Properties
• 6.1 Current Transport Across Interfaces in a Superconductor
• 6.2 The RCSJ Model
• 6.3 Josephson Junctions Under Microwave Irradiation
• 6.4 Vortices in Long Josephson Junctions
• 6.5 Quantum Properties of Superconducting Tunnel Junctions
• 7 Applications of Superconductivity
• 7.1 Superconducting Magnetic Coils
• 7.2 Superconducting Permanent Magnets
• 7.3 Applications of Superconducting Magnets
• 7.4 Superconductors for Power Transmission: Cables, Transformers, and Current-Limiting Devices
• 7.5 Superconducting Resonators and Filters
• 7.6 Superconducting Detectors
• 7.7 Superconductors in Microelectronics
• Monographs and Collections
• Outlook
• Subject Index