High Temperature Superconductor Bulk Materials

Professor Krabbes leads the Bulk Materials Development Group in the Institute of Solid State Research (IFF) as a part of IFW Dresden. He has authored more than 150 technical publications and 20 patents and was awarded the J H van t'Hoff Medal in Physical Chemistry in 1984 and the PASREG Award of Excellence in 1999. His colleague Guenter Fuchs received the PASREG Award for his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of bulk cuprate superconductors in high magnetic fields in 2003. Wolf-Ruediger Canders heads the Institute for Electrical Machines, Traction and Drives (IMAB) at the University of Braunschweig. Both Hardo May and Ryszard Palka are leading scientists at the IMAB.

"This book appears at a time when the field has reached maturity. It differs clearly from textbooks on superconductivity, as it emphasizes the interdisciplinary aspects of the fundamentals and the applications, although it does not treat the phenomenon of superconductivity by reference to quantum mechanics or the Ginzburg-Landau theory. Because of the broad coverage it is suitable for advanced and postgraduate students of physics, chemistry, materials science, and electronics, especially for those who want to get an overview of selected areas by using the literature references in the relevant chapters. For scientists and engineers working in the field of superconducting materials, this is a useful reference source, and will stimulate ideas for new applications of superconductivity." Angewandte Chemie

• 1. Fundamentals2. Growth and melt processing of YBCO3. Pinning-relevant defects in bulk YBCO4. Properties of bulk YBCO5. Trapped fields6. Improved YBCO based bulk superconductors and functional elements7. Alternative systems8. Peak effect9. Very high trapped fields in YBCO permanent magnets10. Engineering fundamentals11. Inherently stable superconducting magnetic bearings 12. Application for electromagnetic energy converters 13. Further applications with HTSC-bulk materials14. Calculation models for the interaction between magnetic fields and HTSC-bulks