For emerging energy saving technologies superconducting materials with superior performance are needed. Such materials can be developed by manipulating the "elementary building blocks" through nanostructuring. For superconductivity the "elementary blocks" are Cooper pair and fluxon (vortex). This book presents new ways how to modify superconductivity and vortex matter through nanostructuring and the use of nanoscale magnetic templates. The basic nano-effects, vortex and vortex-antivortex patterns, vortex dynamics, Josephson phenomena, critical currents, and interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism at the nanoscale are discussed. Potential applications of nanostructured superconductors are also presented in the book.
| ISBN: | 9783642265969 |
| Publication date: | 2nd January 2013 |
| Author: | Victor Moshchalkov, Roger Woerdenweber, Wolfgang Lang |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 395 pages |
| Series: | NanoScience and Technology |
| Genres: |
Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics) Engineering applications of electronic, magnetic, optical materials Low temperature physics Electronic devices and materials Nanosciences Electronics engineering |