Nanoscience and Engineering in Superconductivity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Guided Vortex Motion and Vortex Ratchets in Nanostructured Superconductors

   • Alejandro V. Silhanek, Joris Van de Vondel, Victor V. Moshchalkov

   Pages 1-24

3. High-T _c Films: From Natural Defects to Nanostructure Engineering of Vortex Matter

   • Roger Wördenweber

   Pages 25-79

4. Ion Irradiation of High-Temperature Superconductors and Its Application for Nanopatterning

   • Wolfgang Lang, Johannes D. Pedarnig

   Pages 81-104

5. Frontiers Problems of the Josephson Effect: From Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena Decay to High-T _c Superconductivity

   • Antonio Barone, Floriana Lombardi, Francesco Tafuri

   Pages 105-135

6. Intrinsic Josephson Tunneling in High-Temperature Superconductors

   • A. Yurgens, D. Winkler

   Pages 137-161

7. Stacked Josephson Junctions

   • S. Madsen, N. F. Pedersen, P. L. Christiansen

   Pages 163-186

8. Point-Contact Spectroscopy of Multigap Superconductors

   • P. Samuely, P. Szabó, Z. Pribulová, J. Kačmarčík

   Pages 187-210

9. Nanoscale Structures and Pseudogap in Under-doped High-Tc Superconductors

   • M. Saarela, F. V. Kusmartsev

   Pages 211-229

10. Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of High T _c Cuprates

    • Ivan Maggio-Aprile, Christophe Berthod, Nathan Jenkins, Yanina Fasano, Alexandre Piriou, Øystein Fischer

    Pages 231-255

11. Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy of Vortices with Normal and Superconducting tips

    • J. G. Rodrigo, H. Suderow, S. Vieira

    Pages 257-280

12. Surface Superconductivity Controlled by Electric Field

    • Pavel Lipavský, Jan Koláček, Klaus Morawetz

    Pages 281-297

13. Polarity-Dependent Vortex Pinning and Spontaneous Vortex–Antivortex Structures in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrids

    • Simon J. Bending, Milorad V. Milošević, Victor V. Moshchalkov

    Pages 299-322

14. Superconductor/Ferromagnet Hybrids: Bilayers and Spin Switching

    • J. Aarts, C. Attanasio, C. Bell, C. Cirillo, M. Flokstra, J. M. v. d. Knaap

    Pages 323-347

15. Interplay Between Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity

    • Jacob Linder, Asle Sudbø

    Pages 349-388

16. Back Matter

    Pages 389-395

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For emerging energy saving technologies superconducting materials with superior performance are needed. Such materials can be developed by manipulating the "elementary building blocks" through nanostructuring. For superconductivity the "elementary blocks" are Cooper pair and fluxon (vortex). This book presents new ways how to modify superconductivity and vortex matter through nanostructuring and the use of nanoscale magnetic templates. The basic nano-effects, vortex and vortex-antivortex patterns, vortex dynamics, Josephson phenomena, critical currents, and interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism at the nanoscale are discussed. Potential applications of nanostructured superconductors are also presented in the book.

• Cooper pair
• Fluxon
• Josephson effect
• Josephson junction
• magnetism
• spectroscopy
• superconductor

• , INPAC - Institute for Nanoscale Physics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

  Victor Moshchalkov

• , Institute of Bio- and Nanosystems, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany

  Roger Woerdenweber

• , Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Wolfgang Lang

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