Nanostructured superconductors / Victor V Moshchalkov, Joachim Fritzsche

Author: Moshchalkov, V. V. (Victor V.)
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: xix, 299 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Additional Creators: Fritzsche, Joachim

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Machine generated contents note: 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.Line -- 2.2.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 loops -- 3.2.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 au 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 pinning -- 4.3.2.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 domains -- 5.4.1.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.

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9789814343916
9814343919

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-294) and index.

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