Physics and Materials Science of High Temperature Superconductors, IV

I: Physics and Theory.- Abrikosov Vortices Behavior in Different Pinning Potential for Moderately Anisotropic High-Tc Superconductors.- Microwave Dissipation and the Structure of the Vortex Lattice in Bi2Sr2CaCu208+? Single Crystals.- The Flux Line Lattice States in Single-Crystalline Superconductors with Weak Pinning.- Can We Achieve High In-Field Jc at 77 K in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O?.- The Violation of the BCS Theory and the Extensions Required to Include the Effects of a Nearby Phase Transition.- Correlations Between Magnetostriction Jumps and Flux Instabilities in La1.85Sr0.15CuO4 Single Crystal.- Spin-Phonon Correlations and Optical Excitations in Oxides.- Anisotropic Josephson Junctions on Stepped Surfaces of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Crystals: Evidence for the Symmetry of the Pair Wave Function.- II: Processing and Properties - Crystals.- Material Science Aspects of HTS Technical Superconductors.- Studies of Infinite-Layer T’ -Phase and 1-D-Ladder Copper-Oxide Compounds.- Low-Temperature H-T Phase Diagram of Nd1.85Ce0.15CuO4±?.- Superconductivity in the La2CuO4.03 Single Crystal System.- Residual Microstresses a-b Microcracking and Twin Structure in Oxygen Controlled Melt Grown NdBaCuO Superconductors.- Microstructure and Superconducting Characteristics of HgmPbnBa2Ca2Cu3O8+?.- Problems of Searching for Copper-Free HTSC Compositions.- III: Processing and Properties - Thin Films.- Pulsed Laser Deposition of Thin Films.- Study of a-Axis Oriented YBa2Cu3Ox Superconducting Thin Films on Y2O3/YSZ/Si Substrates.- Structural Disorder Investigations of YBCO Thin Films Using Raman Microscopy.- Penetration Depth Measurements in Epitaxiel YBCO Thin Films by the ESR Technique.- IV: Applications.- HTS Multilayer Process Development for Digital Circuits.- Evaluation of the MagneticProperties of Nd-Based Superconductors.- Noise Properties of HTSC Films for Bolometers on Si Membranes.- Application of Ion Beam Etching to Investigate the Electrical Behaviour of Josephson Junctions.- Synthesis of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Wires for Perspective Applications.- Late Submission.- Electron-Density Distribution and valence-Bond Structure in Copper-Oxygen Linkage in YBA2Cu3O6.9 and CuGeO3.- List of Participants.