For emerging energy saving technologies superconducting materials with superior performance are needed. Such materials can be developed by manipulating the "elementary building blocks" through nanostructuring. For superconductivity the "elementary blocks" are Cooper pair and fluxon (vortex). This book presents new ways how to modify superconductivity and vortex matter through nanostructuring and the use of nanoscale magnetic templates. The basic nano-effects, vortex and vortex-antivortex patterns, vortex dynamics, Josephson phenomena, critical currents, and interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism at the nanoscale are discussed. Potential applications of nanostructured superconductors are also presented in the book.
Author(s): Alejandro V. Silhanek, Joris Van de Vondel (auth.), Victor Moshchalkov, Roger Woerdenweber, Wolfgang Lang (eds.)
Series: NanoScience and Technology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 395
Tags: Low Temperature Physics;Nanoscale Science and Technology;Nanotechnology and Microengineering;Optical and Electronic Materials;Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Guided Vortex Motion and Vortex Ratchets in Nanostructured Superconductors....Pages 1-24
High- T c Films: From Natural Defects to Nanostructure Engineering of Vortex Matter....Pages 25-79
Ion Irradiation of High-Temperature Superconductors and Its Application for Nanopatterning....Pages 81-104
Frontiers Problems of the Josephson Effect: From Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena Decay to High- T c Superconductivity....Pages 105-135
Intrinsic Josephson Tunneling in High-Temperature Superconductors....Pages 137-161
Stacked Josephson Junctions....Pages 163-186
Point-Contact Spectroscopy of Multigap Superconductors....Pages 187-210
Nanoscale Structures and Pseudogap in Under-doped High-Tc Superconductors....Pages 211-229
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of High T c Cuprates....Pages 231-255
Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy of Vortices with Normal and Superconducting tips....Pages 257-280
Surface Superconductivity Controlled by Electric Field....Pages 281-297
Polarity-Dependent Vortex Pinning and Spontaneous Vortex–Antivortex Structures in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrids....Pages 299-322
Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrids: Bilayers and Spin Switching....Pages 323-347
Interplay Between Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity....Pages 349-388
Back Matter....Pages 389-395
