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Superconductor Information
for the Beginner
Joe Eck, SUPERCONDUCTORS.org
(General to Advanced Audience)
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Copper-oxide plane at surface of superconductor has surprising properties
Jim Kloeppel, News Bureau,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[ 26 August 2002]
(General to Advanced Audience)
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Getting kinky with high-temperature superconductors
Science Beat, The Advanced Light Source (ALS),
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Berkeley Lab),
University of California (UC) &
U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)
[ 14 January 2002 ]
(General to Advanced Audience)
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Helping Out a High-Temperature Superconductor
PhysOrg.com
(General Audience)
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High Temperature Superconductors
C. R. Nave, HyperPhysics,
Georgia State University
(Advanced Audience)
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The History of Superconductors
Joe Eck, SUPERCONDUCTORS.org
(General Audience)
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A hot time for cold superconductors
Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California (UC) &
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
(General Audience)
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An Introduction to HTS
Dirk Reimer, A Guide to Superconductivity
(General to Advanced Audience)
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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS
Jerry Emanuelson, Colorado Futurescience, Inc.
(General Audience)
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Making High-Temperature Superconductors
Colorado Futurescience, Inc. (General Audience)
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Physicists advance theory for new class of
quantum phase transition
Lia Unrau, Rice News, Volume 11, Number 12,
Office of Media Relations & Information,
Rice University
(General to Advanced Audience)
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PREPARATION, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF A HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR (lab exercise)
Institute for Materials Research,
State University of New York at Binghampton
(SUNY)
(General to Advanced Audience)
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Researchers create conveyer belt for
magnetic flux vortices in superconductors
PhysOrg.com (General Audience)
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Superconductivity
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
(General to Advanced Audience)
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The Superconductor Collection
Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery,
Michael W. Davidson,
Florida State University
(General Audience)
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A Super Job of Spin Control
NSF PR 05-071,
National Science Foundation
(NSF) [ 4 May 2005 ]
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Understanding High Temperature Superconductivity:
Progress and Prospects
David Pines, Ulam Scholar,
Center for Nonlinear Studies,
Los Alamos National Laboratory, &
Physics Department, University of Illinois
(Advanced to Technical Audience)
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The world today has become one in which
technology, riding on the back of scientific advance, appears to lead
societal evolution. Travel and communication are two of the areas
in which this is profoundly evident. Advances in travel now allow anyone
to span distances in hours that, a century and a half ago, required weeks
or months to traverse. Communication is instantaneous and omnipresent
throughout most regions of the world.
Medicine is undergoing an explosive revolution, both in the treatment and
eradication of disease and in the improvement of the human condition.
In the past, for example, loss of a limb would have condemned a person to
a life of diminished activity and, in some cases, social ostracism. Today,
even in many under-developed countries, such a loss can be overcome with
technology and modern medical science. Evidence is strong that, in the
near future, even such personal catastrophies as a severed spinal cord may
be either reparable or surmountable through computer- and servo-augmented
mechanical systems.
Spaceflight, still in its infancy, promises Mankind the ability to one day
travel to the stars and colonize other planets. At the time President
Kennedy issued his famous challenge to place a man on the Moon, the
technology and expertise necessary to do so did not exist. The achievement
of that goal is one of the greatest triumphs in exploration ever conceived
— how it was accomplished is the story of Man’s struggle
with and mastery of technology to expand his frontiers.
Each major advance in technology brings with it a new set of challenges.
Major issues confronting societies throughout the world today are the
responsible and ethical application of technology, how to deal with the
byproducts of a technological revolution driven by economics, and the need
to bring technology-derived benefits to people at all social and economic
levels. A less understood but more subtle problem is that of
integrating the reality of scientific and technological advance with
long-held social and religious doctrines.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 3 June 2003, updated 27 August
2003.
Follow links to the right to learn about superconductors and superconductor
technology — applications, the science involved in
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