Flux Pinning in Superconductors

This book covers the flux pinning mechanisms and properties and the electromagnetic phenomena caused by the flux pinning common for metallic, high-Tc and MgB2 superconductors.

Ideal for graduate students studying superconductivity and experts alike Written by a researcher with more than 30 years experience in the field All chapters are completely revised Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

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.

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