Physics and Materials Science of High Temperature Superconductors

PREFACE.- Opening Remarks.- The Renaissance of Superconductivity.- Theory.- Properties of the High Tc Superconductors.- Fluctuational Torque for High Temperature Superconductors in Strong Magnetic Field.- A Jahn-Teller Theory for Superconductivity of the Cuprates.- Magnetic Properties of the High-Temperature Superconductors.- Superconducting and Antiferromagnetic Instabilities in the Slave Boson: Approach to the Hubbard Model: Functional Integral Formulation.- High-Temperature Superconductivity in Light of Bisoliton Model.- Open Orbit and Magnetic Breakdown Effect.- Visualization of Magnetic Flux Penetration and Trapping in High-Temperature Superconductors.- Persistent Currents in Mesoscopic Rings.- Possible Interplay of Intrinsic Doping and Lattice Anharmonicity in High Temperature Superconductors.- Materials Science and Chemistry.- Microstructure Property Relationships for High Tc Superconductors.- Electron Microscopic Studies of High Tc-Superconductors.- First Co-Ordination Symmetry in the Structure of High Critical Temperature Superconductors.- The Growth of Large Single Crystals, Textured Materials and the Electromagnetic Shielding Effectiveness of High Tc Superconductors.- Structure-Property Relationships in High Tc Copper Oxides Containing Thallium, Bismuth and Lead.- Oxygen Stoichiometry, Structural Transitions, and Thermodynamic Behavior in the YBa2Cu3Ox System.- Preparation of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting Materials: Glass Crystallisation Route Versus Solid State Reaction and Sintering Route.- Oxygen Evolution in High Tc Superconductors.- Effects of Oxygen Stoichiometry on Superconducting Properties of the ceramics ABa2Cu3O7-? with A=Yb, Y, Gd and La.- Thin Film Superconductors.- The Sputter Deposition of Superconducting Ceramics.- Properties of YBa2Cu3O7Thin Films.- Thin-Films Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-0 Superconductors Preparation using Single Resistive Evaporation Source.- YBaCuO Thin Film Preparation by Laser Ablation and Sputtering.- Silver Doped YBa2Cu3O7-x in Films Prepared by Sequential Evaporation of CuOX/Y2O3/BaF2/Ag.- Anisotropy of the Optical Properties of YBa2Cu3O7-x and Bi2(Sr1-xCax)Cu2O8+? Single Crystals and Thin Films.- Microwave Properties of High Tc Microbridges.- YBACUO Thin Films Prepared by Organornetallic Aerosol Deposition.- Crystal and Bulk Superconductors.- Systematics of ?Sr-Measured Penetration Depths in Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O.- Flux Distribution in a Single Crystal of YBa2Cu3O7.- Mid-Infrared Reflectivity of Single Crystal YBa2Cu3O7 and Related Compounds.- EPR and Microwave Absorption Measurements on Crystal Tl2Ca2Ba2Cu3O10.- Investigation of the Temperature and Small Field Dependence of the I-V Curves of the High Tc Superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-?.- Critical Current and Electronic Properties of YBaCuO-Ag Compounds.- Critical-Current Density Determination from Low-Field Magnetic Measurements for YBCO Superconductors.- Development of High-Tc-Superconductor Wires.- Hysteresis of Critical Current in YBa2Cu3O7-x-Ag.- Grain Connectivity and Superconductivity of Bulk High Temperature Superconductors.- Synthesis and Characterization of Composite (Ag/123) High Temperature Superconductor wires.- Electronic Structure of Twin Boundaries in YBa2Cu3O7.- Thermodynamic Fluctuations and Fractal Homogeneous Critical Behavior of Ceramic High Tc Superconductors Out of Electrical Resistivity and Thermoelectric Power Measurements.- Preparation and Magnetic Studies of Single Crystalline (Bi, Pb)SrCaCuO Superconductors.- Raman Scattering From Metal (Co, Ni and Zn)-Substituted YBa2Cu3O7-?.- NMR and NQR of HTc Superconductors.- Anisotropyof the Kinetic and Optical Properties of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Single Crystals.- Elastic and Anelastic Effects in the Orthorhombic and Tetragonal Forms of GdBa2Cu3O7-x as a Function of Pressure and Temperature.- The Effect of Fast Neutron Irradiation Damage on the 110 K Phase of the Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System.- Applications of Superconductivity.- Operation of Ceramic rf Squids and Dynamics of Magnetic Flux Vortices.- Superconductivity in Medicine.- Late Contributions.- Superconductivity by Quantum Size Effect.- Density and Texture Dependence of Grain Coupling in Sintered Y-Ba-Cu-O Superconductors.- A Model for the Bulk Processing of High Temperature Superconductive ceramic Powders and Parts.- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS.