Table of Contents

Section 1 — Basic Experimental Techniques and Concepts.- Multipurpose Cryostat for Low Temperature Magnetic and Electric Measurements of Solids.- Ac Susceptibility Responses of Superconductors: Cryogenic Aspects, Investigation of Inhomogeneous Systems and of the Equilibrium Mixed State.- Alternating-Field Susceptometry and Magnetic Susceptibility of Superconductors.- Ac Inductive Measurements: Its Application to the Studies of High Tc Superconductivity.- Ac Susceptibility Studies of Superconducting Properties Under High Hydrostatic Pressure.- Dc Magnetization and Flux Profile Techniques.- Studies of “Non-ideal” Superconductors using Dc Magnetic Methods.- Section 2 — Theoretical Considerations and Phemonological Models.- Ac Losses in Type II Superconductors.- Early Theories of ?? and ?? of Superconductors: The Controversial Aspects.- Detailed Theory of the Magnetic Response of High Temperature Ceramic Superconductors.- Exponential Critical State Model Fit for Intergranular Ac Susceptibility of Sintered High-Tc superconductors.- Phenomenological Model Fit to Intragranular Ac Susceptibility of Sintered High-Tc Superconductors.- Critical Current Densities from ac Susceptibility Data.- Section 3 — Bulk and Single Crystal Samples.- Responses of High Tc superconductors to Various Combinations of AC and DC Magnetic Fields.- Non-Linear A.C. Susceptibility Response Near the Irreversibility Line.- Higher Harmonics of Single Crystal YBa2Cu3Oy Thin Films and Bulk Samples.- The Frequency Dependence of the AC Irreversibility Line of some High Temperature Superconducotors.- Utility of ?ac Response in the Low Field Limit for Characterizing Inhomogeneous Superconducotrs.- ac Susceptibility Studies of Type II Superconductors: Vortex Dynamics.- A Study of Reversible andIrreversible Magnetization Behavior in Conventional Superconductors.- Section 4 — Thin Films.- AC Susceptibility Techniques Applied to Thin Film Superconductors.- A self Contained Inductance Bridge for Rapid NDT of Superconducting Thin Films.- Characterization of Tl2Ba2CaCu2O8-Films and Single Crystals by an AC Susceptibility method.- Temperature Dependent Penetration Depths From the ac Magnetic Susceptibility of Thin Films.- Magnetic Detection of Optical Excitations in HTSC Thin Films by ac Susceptibility Measurements.- Section 5 — Magnetically Ordered and Spin-Glass Systems.- AC Susceptibility of Dilute Magnetic Systems.- Spin-Glass and Superconducting Properties.- Novel Low Field ac Magnetic Susceptibility Techniques in UHV: Magnetism of hcp Gd(0001).- Section 6 — Specialized Measuring Techniques.- Magnetically Modulated Resistance Techniques.- High Field ac Susceptometer Design for Measurements of Superconducting Single Crystals and Results.- Balancing Coils for 10 MHz Susceptibility Signals.- Reversibility Line Measurements in a SQUID Without Sample Movement.- Automatic Temperature Calibration During Swept Temperature Magnetisation Measurements.- Appendix — Irreversibility Line Debate.- List of Participants.