Electronic Properties of High-Tc Superconductors: The Normal and the Superconducting State of High-Tc Materials (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

'High-Temperature Superconductors in 1992 Welcome Address.- I General Properties, Preparation, Structure.- Charge Dynamics in Metallic CuO2 Layers.- Superconductivity in the Infinite-Layer Phase Stabilized Under High Pressure.- Crystal Chemistry and Superconductivity in M(Ba1?ySry)2RECu2Ox.- Superconducting Mixed-Metal Oxide Compounds of the Type Sr2Ln1.5Ce0.5MCu2O10??, Ln = Sm, Eu, M = Nb, Ta.- II Applications, Film Preparation.- High-Tc Superconductivity: Present Status of Applications.- Recent High-Tc-SQUID Developments.- Epitaxial YBCO Films on MgO, SrTiO3, Si, and GaAs by Thermal Coevaporation.- Preparation and Patterning of (110) Oriented YBaCuO Thin Films.- YBa2Cu3O7/PrBa2Cu3O7 Superlattices: Properties of Ultrathin YBa2Cu3O7 Layers.- Synthesis of New HTS by Pulsed Laser Deposition.- Epitaxial Growth of Thin-Film Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x on LaA1O3(001), NdGaO3(001) and MgO(001).- III Transport Properties, Thermal Properties.- Aspects of Quantum Coherence in Superconducting Rings: Flux Quantisation in a Heavy Fermion/Niobium Hybrid Ring and the Origin of Noise in a HTC DC SQUID.- Effect of Thermodynamic Fluctuations on the Transport Properties in YBaCuO Thin Films.- Metallic Weak-Link Character of Grain Boundaries in High-Tc Materials.- The Chemical Potential and Thermodynamic Properties of Narrow-Band Superconductors.- Nonequilibrium Properties of HTSC Under Microwave Irradiation.- Hall Effect of Epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7?x and Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy Films.- Anomalous Thermoelectric Power of the High-Tc Materials in Normal State: Both Copper Oxides and C60 Fullerene.- On the Valency of Pr in (Y1?xPrx)Ba2Cu3O7.- Anisotropy of Transport Properties of HTSC Monocrystals.- IV High-Energy Spectroscopies.- On the Surface-Derived State of Cleaved YBa2Cu3O7?? Single Crystals.- Investigation of the Electronic Structure of High-Temperature Superconductors by Polarized X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy.- Unusual Temperature-Dependent Behavior of the Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+? Energy Gap.- Metal and Semiconductor Overlayers on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+?.- Electronic Properties of T -Nd1.4Ce0.2Sr0.4CuO4??.- V Hyperfine Interactions, Magnetic Properties.- to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in High-Tc Superconductors.- Probing the Electronic Structure of Y-Ba-Cu-O Superconductors by Cu, O and Ba NQR and NMR.- NMR Investigation of Low-Energy Excitations in YBa2Cu3O6+x Single Crystals.- Vortex Lattice and Vortex Motion in YBa2Cu3O7?? and YBa2Cu4O8 Superconductors from 89Y NMR.- Neutron Scattering Investigation of the Spin Dynamics in the High-Temperature Superconducting System YBa2Cu3O6+x.- 205Tl NMR in the High-Tc Superconductor T12Ba2CaCu2O8??.- Effects of Ni to Cu Substitution in La2CuO4 from 139La NQR and Relaxation.- 1H-NMR in YBa2Cu3O7??Hx.- Probing the Flux Distribution of Thin Films by Surface Spin Probes.- VI Optical Spectroscopy, Raman Scattering.- Possible Origins of the Continuum in the Cu-O Plane-Polarized Raman Spectra of Copper-Oxide Superconductors.- Phonon Self-Energy Effects in YBa2Cu3O7?? Below Tc: The Role of Oxygen Disorder.- Normal-State Conductivity of Cuprate Superconductors: One-Component and Two-Component Viewpoints.- Resonant Raman Scattering in Bi2Sr2Ca1?zYzCu2O8+? Single Crystals.- Normal-State Infrared Response from Ellipsometric Measurements: YBa2Cu3O7 and PrBa2CU3O7.- Change of Electronic Structures with Varying Lattice Distortion and Metal Valence in Titanium and Vanadium Oxides.- Tests for Nonreciprocal Optical Effects in High-Temperature Superconductors.- Search for Time Reversal Symmetry Violation in High-Temperature Superconductors.- Far-Infrared Applications of High-Temperature Superconductors: Fabry-Perot Resonators and Fast Detectors.- Application of YBa2Cu3O7?? Thin Films on Silicon Substrates for Far-Infrared Fabry-Perot Resonators.- Giant Voltages Upon Surface Heating in Normal YBa2Cu3O7?? Films Explained by an Atomic-Layer Thermopile.- Study