Superconductivity and Applications

Plenary Reviews.- The Electronic Structure of High Tc Copper Oxides.- Flux Pinning and Microstructure in YBa2Cu3O7.- Quantum Percolation Theory of High-Tc Superconductors.- The Fabrication and Application of High Tc Superconducting Thin Films.- Thin Films.- Physics of In-Situ Oxide Superconducting Thin Films Deposition.- Tailored Thin Films of Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu Oxide Prepared by the Incorporation of Exotic Atoms.- In-Situ Processing and Theoretical Model for Deposition of Laser Ablated High-Tc YBa2Cu3O7 Superconducting Thin Films.- RF Plasma Deposition of YBa2Cu3O7?x Films.- Superconducting Films of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O by lacer Deposition.- In-Situ Growth of Y1Ba2Cu3O7?x Thin Films on Three-Inch Wafers Using Laser-Ablation and an Atomic Oxygen Source.- Low-Pressure Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition and Characterization of YBa2Cu3O7?x Thin Films.- Electrical Transport Measurements on Polycrystalline Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Films.- Studies of Neutral and Ion Transport During Laser Ablation of 1:2:3 Superconductors by Optical Absorption Spectroscopy.- Study of Deposition of YBa2Cu3O7?x on Cubic Zirconia.- Interdiffusion Between Sputtered Mg0 Films and Sapphire Substrates.- Processing and Substrate Effects on YBaCuO Thin Films Formed by Rapid Thermal Annealing of CuBaO/Y2O3 Layered Structures.- Low-Temperature Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (LTMOCVD) Route to the Fabrication of Thin Films of High Temperature Oxide Superconductors.- Physical Properties.- Josephson and Quasiparticle Tunneling in High-Tc Superconductors.- Electrodynamics of Superconducting Y1Ba2Cu3Oy.- Mechanisms of Heat Conduction in High-Tc Superconductors.- Acoustic Response of YBa2Cu3Ox Films.- Magnetization Study of High Tc Superconductors.- Microstructure and Electrical Properties of Bulk High-Tc Superconductors.- Electronic Structure Studies of Cuprate Superconductors.- Studies of Microstructures in High-Tc Superconductors by X-Ray Absorption Techniques.- Structural Complications in Superconducting Solids: Chemical Disorder, Structural Modulation, and Low Temperature Phase Transitions in the Bi-Sr-Ca Cuprates.- Local Structure and Distortions in Pure and Doped Y1Ba2Cu3O7??: X-Ray Absorption Studies.- Probing Charge on Cu in Oxide Superconductors.- Andreev Reflection and Tunneling Results on YBa2Cu3O7 and Nd2?xCexCuO4?y Single Crystals.- Positron Annihilation Studies of High Temperature Superconductors.- Weak Links and Planar Defects in Superconducting Cuprates.- Magnetic Field Dependence of Critical Current Density in Silver-Doped Y-Ba-Cu-O Superconductors.- Description of the Tl, Pb and Bi Cuprate High-Tc Superconductors (HTSC's) as Intercalation Compounds and Classification of all HTSC's According to Doping Mechanism.- La2MO4+? (M=Cu, Ni, Co): Phase Separation and Superconductivity Resulting from Excess Oxygen Defects.- Compositional Dependence and Characteristics of the Superconductive Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System.- Of Grain Boundary Diffusion and Superconductivity in Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Compound.- Dissipative Structures in Thin Film Superconducting Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O.- Grain Orientation in High Tc Ceramic Superconductors.- Mossbauer Effect Studies in YBa2Cu3?xSnyO7?x.- Energetics of Superstructures in the Bi-Series of Superconducting Compounds.- Microstructural Effects in Oxide Superconductors.- Theory.- Theory of Strongly Fluctuating Superconductivity.- Correlation in Metallic Copper Oxide Superconductors: How Large Is It?.- Squeezed Polaron Model of High Tc Superconductivity.- Local Pairing and Antiferromagnetism in High-Tc Superconductors.- Superconductivity Due to the Softening of the Breathing Mode in Ba1?xKxBiO3 Compounds.- Evidence for Pairing of Semions in Finite Systems.- Processing.- Oxygen Stabilized Zero-Resistance States with Transition Temperatures Above 200 K in YBaCuO.- Study of High Tc Superconductor/Metal-Oxide Composites.- Magnetic Alignment of Bi and Tl Cuprates Containing Rare Earth Elements.- The Removal of Organics from Tape Cast YBa2Cu3O7?x.- Anisotropic Critical Currents in Aligned Sintered Compacts of YBa2Cu3O7??.- YBa2Cu3O7??: Enhancing Jc by Field Orientation.- Surface Passivation of Y-Ba-Cu-O Oxide Using Chemical Treatment.- Carbon Fiber Reinforced Tin-Superconductor Composites.- Single Crystal Growth of 123 YBCO and 2122-BCSCO Superconductors.- The Effect of Ag/Ag2O Doping on the Low Temperature Sintering of Superconducting Composites.- Effect of Doping on Defect Structure and Phase Stability in Y-Based Cuprates: In-Situ TEM Studies.- Stability of Yttrium Barium Cuprate in Molten Salts.- Differential Thermal Analysis of the Y1Ba2Cu3Ox Complex.- Experimental Research of the Construction and Structural Relaxation of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconductivity System.- Anodic Oxidation of Metallic Superconducting Precursor.- A New Phase in the Na/Cu/O System Prepared by High Pressure Synthesis.- Effect of Magnetic Fields on Silver Contacts to YBCO and YBCO:Ag Composite Superconductors.- Fracture Behavior of Superconducting Films Prepared by Plasma-Assisted Laser Deposition.- Applications.- Multilayer Flexible Oxide Superconducting Tapes.- Josephson AC Effect in Tl-Based High-Tc Superconducting Bridge.- Sputtered High-Tc Superconducting Films as Fast Optically Triggered Switches.- Radiation Detection Mechanisms in High Temperature Superconductors.- RF Surface Resistance of a Magnetically Aligned Sintered Sample of YBa2Cu3O7.- Fabrication of a Technologically Useful Conductor Using Ceramic Superconductor.- Rapidly Solidified Superconducting Film on Metallic Wire.- Superconducting Projectile Accelerator.- Millimeter Wave Transmission Studies of YBa2Cu3O7?? Thin Films in the 26.5 to 40.0 GHz Frequency Range.- Fabrication of YBa2Cu3O7?x Superconducting Wires by Spray Deposition.- Microwave Loss Measurements on YBCO Films Using a Stripline Resonator.- Response of High Temperature Superconductors to a Step in Magnetic Field.- Development of a Composite Tape Conductor of Y-Ba-Cu-O.- Fabrication of High-Tc Superconducting Coatings by Electrostatic Fluidized-Bed Deposition.- Superconducting Power Transmission Lines Cost Assessment.- Contributers.