Overview
- Explains the basic concepts of crystal growth and crystal symmetry in superconductors
- Suitable also for graduate students majoring in materials science, chemistry, and physics
- Written by leading researchers in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Materials Science (SSMATERIALS, volume 243)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on recently developed crystal growth techniques to grow large and high quality superconducting single crystals. The techniques applied are traveling solvent floating zone (TSFZ) with infrared image furnace, Bridgeman, solution/flux and top seeded solution growth (TSSG) methods. The materials range from cuprates, cobaltates to pnictides including La2CuO4-based (LCO), YBa2Cu3O7-d (YBCO), Bi2Sr2Can−1CunO2n+4+δ (n=1,2,3) (BSCCO) to NaxCoO2. The modified Bridgman “cold finger” method is devoted to the pnictide system with the best quality (transition width DTc~0.5 K) with highest Tc~38.5 K of Ba0.68K0.32Fe2A2. The book presents various iron-based superconductors with different structures, such as 1111, 122, 111, 11 and 42622,10-3-8. Detailed single crystal growth methods (fluxes, Bridgman, floating zone), the associated procedures and their impact to crystal size and quality are presented. The book also describes the influence of doping on the structure and the electric, magnetic, and superconducting properties of these compounds in a comparative study of different growth methods. It describes particularly under-, optimal and over-doped with oxygen cuprates (LCO, YBCO and BSCCO) and hole/electron/isovalently doped parent compounds AFe2As2 (A = Ba, Sr, Ca) (122), chalcogenides AxFe2-ySe2(A = K, Rb, Cs) (122), and Fe1-dTe1-xSex (11). A review of the current growth technologies and future growth efforts handling volatile and poisonous components are also presented.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Growth and Characterization of Bulk Superconductor Material
Authors: Dapeng Chen, Chengtian Lin, Andrey Maljuk, Fang Zhou
Series Title: Springer Series in Materials Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31548-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31546-1Published: 13 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81061-4Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31548-5Published: 07 May 2016
Series ISSN: 0933-033X
Series E-ISSN: 2196-2812
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 196
Number of Illustrations: 78 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity, Optical and Electronic Materials, Solid State Physics