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Superconducting materials - a topical overview

Superconductivity 2015-06-24 v1 Materials Science

Abstract

A topical overview on the state of the art and science of superconducting materials is presented. The relation of atomic structure and suggested superconductivity mechanisms as well as possible applications are discussed for the various families of superconducting materials discovered within the last 25 years.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408212,
  title  = {Superconducting materials - a topical overview},
  author = {Roland Hott and Reinhold Kleiner and Thomas Wolf and Gertrud Zwicknagl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408212},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

70 pages, 28 figures; to be published in: A. V. Narlikar (Ed.), Frontiers in Superconducting Materials, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004; for a manuscript featuring higher-resolution figures and for associated information see http://wwwifp.fzk.de/ISAS/index.html