Nanostructured superconductors / Victor V. Moshchalkov, Joachim Fritzsche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moshchalkov, V. V. (Victor V.)

Contributor:

Fritzsche, Joachim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Superconductors.

Nanostructured materials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The main focus of the book is to present the effects of nanostructuring on superconducting critical parameters. Optimizing systematically flux and condensate confinement in various nanostructured superconductors, ranging from single nano-cells to their hu

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Quantization and confinement in nano-materials; 1.2 Nanostructuring; 1.3 Confining the superconducting condensate; 1.4 Nucleation of superconductivity in presence of spatially modulated magnetic fields; 1.5 Vortex matter in superconductors; 1.5.1 The structure of a single vortex; 1.5.2 The vortex lattice - general considerations; 1.5.3 Vortex lattices in thin films; 1.5.4 Vortex lattices in type-1.5 superconductors; 1.6 Flux pinning; 1.6.1 Structural pinning; 1.6.2 Magnetic pinning; 2. Individual Nanostructures

2.1 Line2.2 Loop; 2.3 Disc; 2.4 The cross-over from loop to dot; 2.5 Symmetry-induced antivortices in mesoscopic superconductors; 2.5.1 Square; 2.5.2 Triangle; 2.5.3 Rectangles; 2.6 The magnetization of singly connected nanostructures; 2.6.1 Disc; 2.6.2 Triangle; 2.6.3 Square; 2.7 Dynamic effects in mesoscopic structures; 2.7.1 Rectification effects in a triangle; 2.7.2 Reversal of the diode effect; 2.7.3 The diode effect in a disk; 2.7.4 Comparison with a theoretical model; 2.8 Hybrid individual cells; 2.8.1 Square with magnetic dot; 2.8.2 Phase shifter; 3. Clusters of Nanocells

3.1 One-dimensional clusters of loops3.2 Two-dimensional clusters of antidots; 3.3 Magnetically coupled loops; 4. Laterally Nanostructured Superconductors; 4.1 The Tc(H) phase boundary of superconducting films with an antidot lattice; 4.2 Pinning in laterally nanostructured superconductors; 4.2.1 Pinning by an antidot or a columnar defect; 4.2.2 Regular pinning arrays; 4.2.3 Regular pinning arrays with nS = 1; 4.2.4 Multiquanta vortex lattices (nS > 1); 4.2.5 Crossover from pinning arrays to networks (nS 1); 4.2.6 Composite antidot lattices; 4.3 Ratchet effects in antidot lattices

4.3.1 Vortex rectification in films with asymmetric pinning4.3.2 Controlled multiple reversals of a ratchet effect; 4.3.3 The origin of reversed vortex ratchet motion; 5. Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrid Systems; 5.1 Field polarity dependent vortex pinning in laterally nanostructured S/F systems; 5.1.1 Vortex pinning by magnetic dots; 5.1.2 Commensurate vortex domain formation; 5.2 Field induced superconductivity; 5.3 Dipole-induced vortex ratchet effects; 5.3.1 Generation of vortex-antivortex pairs; 5.3.2 Switching rectification properties

5.4 Superconductivity in stray fields of magnetic domains5.4.1 Domain superconductivity and domain-wall superconductivity; 5.4.2 Direct visualization of reverse-domain superconductivity; 5.4.3 Superconducting - normal-state junctions induced by stray magnetic fields; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613235077

9781283235075

1283235072

9789814343923

9814343927

OCLC:

748215489