Centennial Book Project: Content and Authors


Chapter 1 : Early History

Section Editor: Peter Kes
1.1 The Discovery and Early History of Superconductivity
Rudolf de Bruyn Ouboter, Dirk van Delft, Peter Kes
1.2 The Historical Context of Josephson's Discovery
A.B. Pippard

Chapter 2 : Theory

Section Editor: Jan Zaanen
2.1 Ginzburg-Landau Equations
V. M. Vinokur and T. I. Baturina
2.2 The Emergence of BCS
David Pines
2.3 Theory of Superconductivity: From Phenomenology to Microscopic Theory
Lev P. Gor'kov
2.4 A modern, but way too short history of the theory of superconductivity at a high temperature
Jan Zaanen
2.5 Intrinsic Josephson effect in layered superconductors
L.N. Bulaevskii and A.E. Koshelev
2.6 Mixed state properties
Ernst Helmut Brandt
Thermomagnetic E ects in the Mixed State
R. P. Huebener

Chapter 3 : Experiments

Section Editor: Jochen Mannhart
3.1 Tunneling and the Josephson Effect
John M. Rowell
3.2 The discovery of fluxoid quantization
Dietrich Einzel
3.3 The Search for the Pairing Symmetry in the High Temperature Superconductors
Dale J. Van Harlingen
3.4 Half-Integer Flux Quantization in Unconventional Superconductors
C.C. Tsuei, J.R. Kirtley
3.5 Electric field effect tuning of superconductivity
Jean-Marc Triscone, Marc Gabay
3.6 The Grain Boundary Problem of High-Tc Superconductors
J. Mannhart, D. Dimos
3.7 Overview of the experimental history, status and prospects of HTS
M.R. Beasley

Chapter 4 : Materials

Section Editor: C. W. Chu
4.1 Introduction
C. W. Chu
4.2 The Route to High Temperature Superconductivity in Transition Metal Oxides
A. Bussmann-Holder and K. A. Müller
4.3 Superconductivity above 10 K in Non-Cuprate Oxides
David C. Johnston
4.4 Cuprates�Superconductors with a Tc up to 164 K
C. W. Chu
4.5 Fe-Pnictides and -Chalcogenides
Hideo Hosono
4.6 Superconductivity in MgB2
Takahiro Muranaka, Jun Akimitsu
4.7 Fullerenes
Kosmas Prassides, Matthew J. Rosseinsky
4.8 Elemental Superconductors
K. Shimizu
4.9 Heavy-Fermion Superconductivity
F. Steglich
4.10 Ruthenate Superconductor Sr2RuO4
Yoshiteru Maeno
4.11 Magnetic Superconductors (and Some Recollections of Professor Bernd T. Matthias)
M. Brian Maple

Chapter 5 : Sensors

Section Editor: Alex Braginski
5.1 Introduction
John Clarke, Arnold Silver, A.I. Braginski
5.2 History and Device Fundamentals
John Clarke, Arnold Silver
5.3 High-Tc SQUIDs
A.I. Braginski
5.4 Geophysical Applications of SQUIDs
C.P. Foley
5.5 Application to Nondestructive Evaluation of Materials and Structures
A.I. Braginski
5.6 SQUIDs - from Laboratory Devices to Commercial Products
Ronald E. Sager
5.7 Electromagnetic and Particle Detection and Readout
John Clarke, Kent Irwin, Peter Michelson
5.8 Concluding Remarks
A.I. Braginski, John Clarke, Ronald E. Sager

Chapter 6 : Qubits

Section Editor: Hans Mooij
6.1 Qubits
J.E. Mooij
6.2 General Aspects
J.E. Mooij

Chapter 7 : Digital Electronics

Section Editor: Shinya Hasuo
7.1 Introduction
Shinya Hasuo
7.2 Operating principles of digital circuits
Theodore Van Duzer
7.3 Digital Electronics in Japan
Shinya Hasuo
7.4 Digital Electronics in the USA
Fernand (Doc) Bedard
7.5 Digital Electronics in Europe
Horst Rogalla
7.6 Integrated circuit fabrication process
Mutsuo Hidaka
7.7 High-Speed Digital Circuits
Akira Fujimaki
7.8 History of Superconductor Analog-to-Digital Converters
Oleg Mukhanov

Chapter 8 : Microwave Applications

Section Editor: Dan Oates
8.1 Microwave Measurements of Fundamental Properties of Superconductors
D.E. Oates
8.2 Applications of Passive Microwave Filters and Devices in Communication and Related Systems
R.B. Hammond, N. O. Fenzi and B. A. Willemsen
8.3 Superconducting Quantum Electronics Enabling Astronomical Observations
T.M.Klapwijk
8.4 Microwave Cooling of Superconducting Quantum Systems
W.D. Oliver
8.5 Applications of Superconducting Microresonators
Jonas Zmuidzinas

Chapter 9 : Metrology

Section Editors: Dick Harris, Jürgen Niemeyer
9.1 Introduction
Richard E. Harris, Jürgen Niemeyer
9.2 Josephson Voltage Standard� the Ultimate Precision
J. S. Tsai, J. E. Lukens
9.3 The First Josephson Voltage Standards
Thomas J. Witt
9.4 First Josephson Junction Array Voltage Standard
Tadashi Endo
9.5 How the DC Array Standards Were Developed
Jürgen Niemeyer
9.6 Making the Josephson Voltage Standard Practical
Clark A. Hamilton
9.7 Programmable Josephson Voltage Standards: from DC to AC
Johannes Kohlmann
9.8 Quantum-Based Voltage Waveform Synthesis
Samuel P. Benz
9.9 Superconductivity and the SI (Metric) System Based on Fundamental Constants
Edwin Williams, Ian Robinson

Chapter 10 : Medical Applications

Section Editor: Harold Weinstock
10.1 Introduction
H. Weinstock
10.2 Medical Applications of Magnetoencephalography
Cosimo Del Gratta, Stefania Della Penna, Vittorio Pizzella, Gian-Luca Romani
10.3 MCG Instrumentation and Applications
Riccardo Fenici, Donatella Brisinda, Anna Rita Sorbo, Angela Venuti
10.4 MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Instrumentation and Applications
Jim Bray, Kathleen Amm
10.5 Ultralow Field NMR and MRI
John Clarke
10.6 Superconductivity in medical accelerators for cancer therapy
Peter A. Zavodszky

Chapter 11 : Wires and Tapes

Section Editor: David Larbalestier
11.1 The Long Road to High Current Density Superconducting Conductors
David Larbalestier
11.2 Nb-Ti - from beginnings to perfection
Peter J. Lee and Bruce Strauss
11.3 History of Nb3Sn and Related A15 Wires
Kyoji Tachikawa and Peter J. Lee
11.4 Bi-Ca-Sr-Cu-O HTS Wire
M.W. Rupich and E.E. Hellstrom
11.5 Coated Conductor: Second Generation HTS Wire
A. P. Malozemoff and Y. Yamada
11.6 The MgB2 conductor story
René Flükiger and Hiroaki Kumakura

Chapter 12 : Large Scale Applications

Section Editors: Peter Komarek, Bruce Strauss, Steve St. Lorant
12.1 Introduction
Steve St. Lorant
12.2 The history of superconductivity in high energy physics
Steve A. Gourlay and Lucio Rossi
12.3 Magnet Engineering�Study in Stability and Quench Protection
L. Bottura, A. McInturff
12.4 The History of Fusion Magnet Development
Jean-Luc Duchateau, Peter Komarek and Bernard Turck
12.5 Electric Power Applications of Superconductivity
William Hassenzahl and Osami Tsukamoto
12.6 Magnetic Separation
Christopher M. Rey
12.7 Superconducting Induction Heating of Non-ferrous Metals
Niklas Magnusson, Larry Masur
12.8 Superconducting Magnets for NMR
G. Roth