Superconductors - New Developments

Preface VII

Section 1 Experiment 1

Chapter 1 Superconductivity and Physical Properties in the
KxMoO2-δ 3
L. M. S. Alves, B. S. de Lima, M. S. da Luz and C. A. M. dos Santos

Chapter 2 Characterization of the Electronic Structure of Spinel
Superconductor LiTi2O4 using Synchrotron X-ray
Spectroscopy 17
Chi-Liang Chen and Chung-Li Dong

Chapter 3 A Fluorine-Free Oxalate Route for the Chemical Solution
Deposition of YBa2Cu3O7 Films 35
Luis De Los Santos Valladares, Juan Carlos González, Angel
Bustamante Domínguez, Ana Maria Osorio Anaya, Henry Sanchez
Cornejo, Stuart Holmes, J. Albino Aguiar and Crispin H.W. Barnes

Chapter 4 Gap Structures of A-15 Alloys from the Superconducting and
Normal-State Break-Junction Tunnelling 55
Toshikazu Ekino, Alexander M. Gabovich, Akira Sugimoto, Yuta
Sakai and Jun Akimitsu

Chapter 5 New Prospective Applications of Heterostructures with
YBa2Cu3O7-x 73
M. I. Faley, O. M. Faley, U. Poppe, U. Klemradt and R. E. Dunin-
Borkowski

Chapter 6 High Critical Current Density MgB2 95
Wenxian Li and Shi-Xue Dou

Chapter 7 Spintronics Driven by Superconducting Proximity Effect 127
Guoxing Miao

Chapter 8 The Superconducting Order Parameter in High-Tc
Superconductors – A Point-Contact Spectroscopy
Viewpoint 149
M. Tortello and D. Daghero

Section 2 Theory 181

Chapter 9 How to Distinguish the Mixture of Two D-wave States from
Pure D-wave State of HTSC 183
Peter Brusov and Tatiana Filatova

Chapter 10 Measurements of Stationary Josephson Current between High-
Tc Oxides as a Tool to Detect Charge Density Waves 199
Alexander M. Gabovich, Mai Suan Li, Henryk Szymczak and
Alexander I. Voitenko

Chapter 11 Impurity Effects in Iron Pnictide Superconductors 221
Yuriy G. Pogorelov, Mario C. Santos and Vadim M. Loktev

Chapter 12 Theory of Flux Cutting for Type-II Superconducting Plates at
Critical State 251
Carolina Romero-Salazar and Omar Augusto Hernández-Flores

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