Prologue. The long road to the discovery of superconductivity. Superconductivity reveals its mysteries. The breakthrough to high temperature superconductivity. Structure of the cuprates. CuO2 layers: the genie for high temperature superconductivity. A diversion: quantum mechanics, atoms and the free electron theory of metals What causes superconductivity? The giant quantum state and Josephson effects. Applications of superconductors: enabling technologies of the 21st century. Electronic applications of high temperature superconductors. Organic superconductors enter the race for the top. The continuing search for the physical origin of high-temperature superconductivity. Epilogue. The way forward? References. Subject Index.
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- Materials Today, Vol. 8, No. 9, Sept. 2005
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