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Nanostructured Superconductors.

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: WSPC 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.