Flux Pinning in Superconductors

Teruo Matsushita is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, having served as Vice President of the institute from 1999 to 2003. His research area is wide, ranging from fundamental physics to applications associated with flux pinning phenomena in superconductors. In 2014 he published the Springer undergraduate textbook Electricity and Magnetism, which now boasts close to 2 million downloads.

• From the Contents: Fundamental Electromagnetic Phenomena in Superconductors.- Various Electromagnetic Phenomena.-Critical State Theory.- Longitudinal Magnetic Field Effect.- Measurement Methods for Critical Current Density.- Flux Pinning Mechanism.- Flux Pinning Characteristics.- High-Temperature Superconductors.- MgB2.