Handbook of superconductors

Humes, Leila (2012) Handbook of superconductors. White Word Publications, Delhi, India. ISBN 978-81-323-4160-4

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Abstract

Ever since the discovery of high-temperature (High Tc) superconductivity in the cuprate materials, scientists have worked tirelessly to understand the microscopic mechanisms responsible for its emergence. To this day, no theory can fully explain the hightemperature superconductivity and unconventional (non-s-wave) pairing state found in these materials. However, the interest of the scientific community in understanding the pairing glue for unconventional superconductors—those in which the glue is electronic, i.e. cannot be attributed to the phonon-induced interactions between electrons responsible for conventional BCS theory s-wave superconductivity—has recently been expanded by the discovery of high temperature superconductivity (up to Tc = 55 K) in the doped oxypnictide (1111) superconductors with the chemical composition XOFeAs, where X = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, or Dy. The 122s contain the same iron-arsenide planes as the oxypnictides, but are much easier to synthesize in the form of large single crystals.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics
Depositing User:	Practical Student 02
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2021 07:51
Last Modified:	26 Jul 2022 07:05
URI:	http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/2603

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