Frontiers in Superconductivity Research

CONTENTS: Preface; Superconductivity via BCS and EEC Unification: A Review (M. de Llano -- Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, UNAM, Mexico); Bi2Sr2CaCu2O 8+d Bicrystal c-Axis Twist Josephson Junctions: The Superior Phase-Sensitive Test of Order Parameter Symmetry (Richard A. Klemm -- Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik komplexer System, Dresden); Equilibrium and Dynamic Properties of d-wave ceramic superconductors (D. Dominguez -- Centre Atmico Bariloche, Argentina, H. Kawamurai -- Osaka University, Mai Suan Li -- Institute of Physics, Warsaw); Pairing Symmetry of the Superconducting Gap Analyzed by Means of Measurement for Inhomogeneous High-?c Superconductors (Hun-Tab Kirn -- ETRI, Taejon, Korea); Processing and Characterisation of MgB2 (Adriana C. Serquis and Xiaozhou Liao -- Los Alamos National Laboratory); Fabrication and Characterisation of Superconducting MgB2 thin films in-situ grown by dc Magnetron Sputtering (R. Di Caqua, A. Andreone, A. Cassinese, F. Chiarella, E. Di Gennaro, G. Lamura, M.G. Maglione, M. Salluzzo, R. Vaglio -- Universita degli Studi di Napoli and L. Maritato, S.L. Prischepa, M. Salvato -- Universita degli Studi di Salerno); The Role of Nonlocality in the Pinning Properties of Borocarbides Materials (A. V. Silhanek -- Laboratorium voor Vaste-Stoffysica en Magnetisme, Belgium, J.R. Thompson -- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, L.Civale -- Los Alamos National Laboratory, S.L. Bud'ko and P. Canfield -- Ames Laboratory); Vortices in low-Tc Layered TaGex Superconductors (Andreas Engel -- German Aerospace Center (DLR), Berlin and Benjamin J. Buck -- Victoria University of Wellington); Spin Glass Behavior in the Ru -- 1222 and Ru -- 1212 Rutheno-Cuprate Families: A Comparative Study (C.A. Cardoso and P.M. Araujo-Moreira -- UFSCar, Brazil, -- V.P.S. Awana and H. Kishan -- National Physical Laboratory, India, E. Takayama-Muromachi -- Superconducting Materials Center, National Institute for Materials, Ibaraki, Japan, O.F. de Lima -- UNICAMP, Brazil); Optical Properties of Unconventional Superconductors (Takashi Yanagisawa and Hajime Shibata -- Nanoelectronics Research Institute (NeRI), Ibaraki, Japan and Takashi Yanagisawa -- Osaka University); Thermomagnetic Shock Waves in the Vortex State of Type-II Superconductors (N.A. Taylanov -- National University of Uzbekistan); Index.