TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moreira, Olga, author.
TI  - Superconductors – new developments
AV  - EBOP QC 611.95 M67 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oakville, Ontario
PB  - Arcler Press
KW  - Superconductivity
KW  - Superconductors
KW  - Materials science
N1  - Includes references and index; Chapter 1: Superconducting Magnet Technology and Applications
Chapter 2: Organic Superconductors
Chapter 3: Superconductivity in Layered Organic Metals
Chapter 4: Sensing With Superconducting Point Contacts
Chapter 5: Universal Scaling of the Critical Temperature for Thin Films Near the Superconducting To-Insulating Transition
Chapter 6: High-Temperature Superconductor
Chapter 7: Superconducting Graphene Sheets in CAC6 Enabled by Phonon-Mediated Interband Interactions
Chapter 8: Spintronics Driven by Superconducting Proximity Effect
Chapter 9: Exploration of New Superconductors and Functional Materials, and Fabrication of Superconducting Tapes and Wires of Iron Pnictides
Chapter 10: Unconventional High Temperature Superconductors
Chapter 11: High Temperature Superconductivity in Sulfur and Selenium Hydrides at High Pressure
Chapter 12: Superconducting H5S2 Phase In Sulfur-Hydrogen System Under High-Pressure
Chapter 13: What Makes the T C of Monolayer Fese on Srtio3 So High: A Sign-Problem-Free Quantum Monte Carlo Study
Chapter 14: Superconductivity and Physical Properties in the Kx MOO2-d
Chapter 15: Characterization of the Electronic Structure of Spinel Superconductor LITI2 O4 Using Synchrotron X-Ray Spectroscopy
Chapter 16: High Critical Current Density MGB2
Chapter 17: A Fluorine-Free Oxalate Route for the Chemical Solution Deposition of YBA2 CU3O7 Films
N2  - Imagine a coil which, once an electrical current begins coursing through it, allows for the energy to flow forever without requiring power supply. Before the 20th century, imagining this would be avant-garde  and an excellent premise for a science-fiction novel. Nowadays, we do not have to imagine because superconducting coils are real. Since the discovery of superconductivity, researchers and engineers have busy developing new superconductor materials that can be used in wide range of devices. Coils made of superconducting wire are used daily in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanners in hospitals all over the worlds; 
in Maglev trains in Japan; even in particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva. B roader applications of superconductors have always been hindered by the high cost of refrigeration (i.e. cooling of materials to low temperatures) and of the superconducting coils themselves. With the discovery of high-temperature superconductors in the latter half of the 1980’s, the additional costs involved in manufacturing dropped and this opened up the potential for a variety of promising future applications. The vast potential to influence society and science is unquestionable when considering applications like high-performance electric power transmission, transformers, power storage devices, high-speed digital circuit elements, quantum computing circuits, and fusion reactors. If room-temperature superconductors are discovered, these will revolutionize the supply of electricity. They would certainly change the world as we know it today, and the possibility once again would emerge for contraptions and devices we presently think only conceivable in our collective imagination and portrayed in science-fiction movies to become real. New developments suggest there is still much to learn about superconductivity and that it can be discovered at unexpected 
(or held to be impossible) temperatures
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