Superconductivity

Reinhold Kleiner is professor for experimental solid-state physics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He studied physics at the Technical University of Munich, and received his PhD with a thesis on high temperature superconductors. After spending two years at the University of California at Berkeley, he returned to Germany. His research interests include superconductivity and magnetism. Werner Buckel (1920-2003) was Professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and established the Institute for Superconductivity at the Research Center in Juelich. Among other honorary positions, Professor Buckel was president of the German Physical Society and the European Physical Society and was a member of the Heidelberg Academy of the Sciences and the Leibnitz Society, Berlin.

Introduction
Fundamental Properties of Superconductors
Superconducting Elements, Alloys, and Compounds
Cooper Pairing
Thermodynamics and Thermal Properties of the Superconducting State
Critical Currents in Type-I and Type-II Superconductors
Josephson Junctions and Their Properties
Applications of Superconductivity

Index