High-Tc Superconductors and Related Materials

List Of Contents.- 1. Electronic and Magnetic Structure of Cuprates.- The electronic structure of high-Ta superconductors: introduction and recent studies of model compounds.- Fermi surface mapping by angle-scanned photoemission.- Magnetic properties of low-dimensional cuprates.- Electronic and magnetic properties of cuprate chains and related materials - From bandstructure to aspects of many-body physics in real materials.- Charge density waves with complex order parameter in bilayered cuprates.- 2. Borocarbides and Ruthenates.- Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetism in borocarbides.- Superconducting transition metal borocarbides - challenging materials in between traditional superconductors and high-Ta cuprates.- BCS Analysis of the physical properties of nonmagnetic borocarbides - What can we learn from the experimental data?.- Polarization-dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy on single crystal YNI2B2C superconductors.- P-wave superconductivity in Sr2RuO4.- 3. Plasmons and Josephson effect.- Plasma modes in HTC superconductors within the anisotropic London model.- Plasma modes in thin superconducting films.- Coupling of intrinsic Josephson oscillations in layered superconductors.- Nonstationary Josephson and quasiparticle tunnel currents through junctions between superconductors with spin-density waves.- 4. Fluctuations, inhomogeneities, and optical properties.- Superconducting fluctuations and their role in the role in the normal state anomalies of high temperature superconductors.- On the interplay between Te inhomogeneities at longlenght scales and thermal fluctuations around the average superconducting transition in cuprates.- Electron-boson effects in the infrared properties of metals - What can we learn from the optical conductivity.- Optical study of YCBO thin films: spectral anomalies of low temperature dynamics of strongly correlated charges.- 5. Superconducting Properties.- 5.1 Microscopic Aspects.- to d-wave superconductivity.- Nonlocal electrodynamics at superconducting surfaces.- Fermi liquid superconductivity - Concepts, equations, applications.- Mesoscopic normal-metal conductivity in the macroscopic NS system.- 5.2 Phenomenological Aspects and Applications.- Pinning of vortices and linear and nonlinear ac susceptibilities in high-Ta superconductors.- Wetting phase transitions and superconductivity - The Role of Surface Enhancement of the Order Parameter in the GL Theory.- Bernoulli effect in the quantum Hall regime and type-II superconductors in magnetic field - A new superfluid effect in two dimensional electron gas and a method for determination of the effective mass and vortex charge in superconductors.- Grain boundaries and other interfaces in cuprates high-Ta supercondoctors.- Enhancement of the critical current density of YBa2Cu3O7_8-films by substrate irradiation.- Design of HTS DC squid gradiometer for application in nondestructive evaluation and biomagnetism.