"Superconductors: Materials, Properties and Applications" ed. by Alexander Gabovich

The book is written by noted scientists and young researchers and dealing with various aspects of superconductivity, both theoretical and experimental. The authors tried to demonstrate their original vision and give an insight into the examined problems.

A balance between theory and experiment was preserved at least from the formal viewpoint (9 and 8, respectively). The readers should be warned that many of the problems studied here are far from being solved and are treated on the basis of competing viewpoints.

Contents
Preface
Section 1 Experiment
1 Field-Induced Superconductors: NMR Studies of A-(BETS)2FeCI4
2 X-Ray Spectroscopy Studies of Iron Chalcogenides
3 Defect Structure Versus Superconductivity in MeB2 Compounds (Me = Refractory Metals) and One-Dimensional Superconductors
4 Improvement of Critical Current Density and Flux Trapping in Bulk High-Tc Superconductors
5 Superconducting Magnet Technology and Applications
6 Development and Present Status of Organic Superconductors
7 Pseudogap and Local Pairs in High-Tc Superconductors
8 Magnetic Texturing of High-Tc Superconductors
Section 2 Theory
9 Eilenberger Approach to the Vortex State in Iron Pnictide Superconductors
10 Effective Models of Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices
11 Microwave Absorption by Vortices in Superconductors with a Washboard Pinning Potential
12 dc Josephson Current Between an Isotropic and a d-Wave or Extended s-Wave Partially Gapped Charge Density Wave Superconductor
13 Composite Structures of d-Wave and s-Wave Superconductors (d-Dot): Analysis Using Two- Component Ginzburg-Landau Equations
14 Flux-Periodicity Crossover from hc/e in Normal Metallic to hc/2e in Superconducting Loops
15 A Description of the Transport Critical Current Behavior of Polycrystalline Superconductors Under the Applied Magnetic Field
16 Path-Integral Description of Cooper Pairing
17 Theory of Ferromagnetic Unconventional Superconductors with Spin-Triplet Electron Pairing