Superconductivity - Softcover

Poole, Charles P.; Etc.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 012561456X ISBN 13: 9780125614566

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1997

Superconductivity is an encyclopedic treatment of all aspects of the subject, from classic materials to "fullerenes". Emphasis is on balanced coverage, with a comprehensive reference list and significant graphics from all areas of the published literature. Widely used theoretical approaches are explained in detail. Topics of special interest include high temperature superconductors, spectroscopy, critical states, transport properties, and tunneling. Features: * Extensive and detailed tables of properties * Substantial art program * In-depth treatment of bucky balls (fullerenes) * Excellent chapter on spectroscopy

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Review:

Poole, Farach, and Creswick (PFC) have written a very complete book on superconductivity; they cover a broad spectrum of the properties of conventional metallic and intermetallic superconductors, cuprate superconductors, and fullerenes.--Kara Beauchamp in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

About the Author:

Charles P. Poole, Jr., professor emeritus in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of South Carolina, Fellow of the American Physical Society and the E.P.R./E.S.R. Society, Editor of Handbook of Superconductivity and Encyclopedic Dictionary of Condensed Matter Physics.

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