High-Tc Superconductivity 1996

1. Introduction.- The discovery of HTc superconductivity and its decisive circumstances.- 2. General Aspects.- “s” and “d” wave symmetry components in high-temperature cuprate superconductors.- Theory aspects of high-temperature superconductivity.- 3. New Materials and Structures.- Novel two-dimensional perovskites.- Mechanisms generating layered cuprates and oxycarbonates: Classification.- Mercurocuprates: The highest transition temperature superconductors.- High pressure crystal growth and properties of HgBa2Can-1CunO2n+2+? Sr1-XCuO2, CaCuO2, Y2Ba4Cu6+nO14+n.- Non toxic HTSC materials. Substitution in the charge reservoir layer: “Cupro/carbonate” cuprates and related materials.- Noncuprate layered perovskite superconductor.- 4. Phase Separation, Electronic Inhomogeneities, and Related Problems.- The two-component paradigm for superconductivity in the cuprates.- Charge reservoirs, phase separation and optical excitations in the two-component picture.- Structural phase transitions and superconductivity in lanthanum copper oxides.- Magnetic properties of single layer cuprates.- Structural Phase transitions and incommensurate spin fluctuations in the La2CuO4+y system.- Phase separation and stripe-like modulation observation in Cu-doped La2CuO4+? system.- From a Homogeneous CuO2 Plane to a Superlattice of Quantum Stripes.- Lattice effect and d-electron delocalization effect around Tc in Bi-based high-Tc superconductors.- Lattice instabilities, structural anomalies and phase transitions in Y1-yCayBa2Cu3Ox phases.- Raman Scattering in the YBCO Compounds.- Local structure studies of the underdoped transition in YBa2Cu3Ox.- Neutron spectroscopy of rare earths in superconducting materials.- Tm NMR and Cu NMR studies of phase separation in TmBaCuO compounds.- 5.0Applications.- Applications of high-Tc superconductors.- 6.0 Subject and Formula Index.