Superconductivity: From Materials Science to Practical Applications

Targeted selection and characterisation of contemporary HTS wires for specific applications.- Pinning efficiency of artificial pinning centers in superconductor nanocomposite films.- Control of vortex pinning in YBCO thin films by incorporating APCs through surface modified target approach.- Progress in thick film 2G-HTS development.- Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-d Nanocomposite Films Using Preformed ZrO2 Nanocrystals via Chemical Solution Deposition.- High vortex activation energies in the AC magnetic response of superconductors close to the DC irreversibility line.- An atomic-scale perspective of the challenging microstructure of YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films.- Growth, properties, and device fabrication of iron-based superconductor thin-films.- Future potentials of new high Tc iron based superconductors.- Grain boundaries in Fe-based superconductors.- Control of the critical current density through microstructural design by Ho2O3 and Te co-addition into MgB2 processed by ex situ spark plasma sintering.- Superconductivity in the two dimensional electron gas at transition metal oxide interfaces.- Prospects of superconducting magnet technology in the medical field: a new paradigm on the horizon?.