Nanoscience and Engineering in Superconductivity

Guided Vortex Motion and Vortex Ratchets in Nanostructured Superconductors.- High-Tc Films: From Natural Defects to Nanostructure Engineering of Vortex Matter.- Ion Irradiation of High-Temperature Superconductors and Its Application for Nanopatterning.- Frontiers Problems of the Josephson Effect: From Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena Decay to High-Tc Superconductivity.- Intrinsic Josephson Tunneling in High-Temperature Superconductors.- Stacked Josephson Junctions.- Point-Contact Spectroscopy of Multigap Superconductors.- Nanoscale Structures and Pseudogap in Under-doped High-Tc Superconductors.- Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of High Tc Cuprates.- Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy of Vortices with Normal and Superconducting tips.- Surface Superconductivity Controlled by Electric Field.- Polarity-Dependent Vortex Pinning and Spontaneous Vortex-Antivortex Structures in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrids.- Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrids: Bilayers and Spin Switching.- Interplay Between Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity.