Materials and Crystallographic Aspects of HTc-Superconductivity

Part 1 Structure and Structure-Properties Relationship: A classification of the copper oxide superconductors and the relationship between the CU valence and the superconducting properties. Neutron powder diffraction on the ILL high flux reactor and high Tc superconductors. Local structural distortion - implication to the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity. Superstructures in 123 compounds X-ray and neutron diffraction. Accurate X-ray structural investigations of single crystals of high-Tc materials. Structural and physical properties of superconducting La2CuO4 Electron energies in oxides. The system La2xSrxCuO4. The n-type copper oxide superconductors. Charge dynamics in high Tc copper oxides. Lattice instabilities and superconductivity in La-214 compounds. Part 2 Physics of HTSC: Probing crystallographic and materials properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductors by NMR and NQR. Infrared properties of selected high Tc superconductors. Probing high-temperature superconductivity with positive muons. Extreme type II superconductors - universal properties and trends. IR-excited Raman spectroscopy on HTc superconductors. Numerical simulation of high temperature superconductors. Evidence from EXAFS for an axial oxygen centered lattic instability in yBa2Cu3O Single crystal growth and characterization of thallium cuprate superconductors - a review. Part 3 Flux Pinning, Pinning Centres, Applications: Flux pinning in high-temperature superconductors. Flux pinning of high temperature superconductors and their applications. High-Tc thin films. Growth modes - structure - applications. Engineered grain boundary junctions - characteristics, structure, applications. Part 4 Organic Superconductors: High-energy spectroscopic studies of fullerene and cuprate superconductors. Electron microscopy and the structural studies of superconducting materials and fullerites. Structure-property relationships in radical-cation (electron-donor molecule) and annion-based (including fullerides) organic superconductors and their use in the design of new materials. Part 5 Phase Diagrams of HTSC: Phase diagram, synthesis and crystal growth of YBaCuO phases at high oxygen pressure P22 bar. Thermodynamic stability of superconductors in the Y-Ba-Cu-O system.