Introduction To Superconductivity And High-tc Materials

• Introduction - superconducting materials; characteristic properties; elementary phenomenological theory; critical current of type-II superconductors; results from the microscopic theory; Josephson effects; high Tc superconducting oxides; technology and applications.

"... an introductory text, with a unified, balanced point of view, is of considerable value. This is what Cyrot and Pavuna have produced. Their book still requires a significant effort for a genuine beginner, but it can be studied step by step. It sets up delicate compromises between the opposite dangers of dogmatism and oversimplification." from the foreword by P G de Gennes