Advances in Superconductivity: Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Superconductivity (ISS '88), August 28-31, 1988, Nagoya (Hardcover)

1 History of Superconductivity.- A History of Superconductivity.- 2 Prospects for Application of Superconductivity.- Application to Electric Power System.- Applicability of Superconductivity in the Electric Power System: A Canadian Perspective.- Superconductive Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) for Electric Utilities.- Current Situation of R&D on Superconductive Power Application Technologies Carried out by Engineering Research Association for Superconductive Generation Equipment and Materials.- Development of Superconducting Magnet for Fusion Power.- R&D Superconductive Electro-Magnetic Propulsion Ship.- Superconducting Magnets for Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Application of Superconductivity to Transportation: Magnetically Levitated Train.- Potential Benefits of Superconductivity to Transportation in the United States.- Superconducting Magnet for Magnetically Levitated Vehicle.- Prospects for Superconducting Electronics.- Josephson Digital and Analog Devices with Niobium Junctions.- A Superconducting IC Technology Based on Refractory Josephson Tunnel Junctions.- Josephson Parametric Amplifiers: Low Noise at 9GHz.- Losses in AC Superconducting Coils.- 3 Organic Superconductors.- Chemical and Physical Properties of Organic Superconductor ?-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2.- Organic Metals and Superconductors Based on BEDT-TTF.- 4 Oxide Superconductors.- The Spin Bag Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity.- Electronic States in Oxide Superconductors.- Are Metal-Oxide Superconductors Charged Bosonic Superfluids?.- Structure-Property Relations in High-Temperature Oxide Superconductors: Nature of Oxygen and Copper.- Crystal Chemistry of Superconductive Bismuth and Thallium Cuprates.- Crystal Chemistry of the Copper Oxide Based High Temperature Superconductors.- The Important Role of High Oxidation States in Cuprate Superconductors.- XANES Study of Copper Valence and Structure in High Tc Superconducting Oxides.- Photoemission Study of Single Crystal Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8.- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectra of La1+xBa2-xCu3Oy(x=0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5).- X-Ray Photoemission Study of High-Tc Superconducting Thin Film.- Electronic and Structural Properties of Ba2Y1-xPrxCu3O7-?.- New Experimental Results Concerning the Difference Between Various Tcs of LnBa2Cu3Oy (Ln = Lanthanide).- Raman Study of High-Tc Superconductor Bi0.7Pb0.3SrCaCu1.8Oy.- Luminescence Study of New High Tc Oxide Superconductors.- Consideration of Interaction Between Carriers and Magnetic Rare-Earth Ions in R1Ba2Cu3Oy (R= Rare-Earth Ions) Based on ESR and Resistivity Studies.- The Effect of the Addition of S, Se and Te in Ba-Y-Cu-O on Its Superconductive Properties.- Phase Diagram and Crystal Growth of RBa2Cu3O7-y System.- Superconductivity on Single Crystals of Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O System.- Single-Crystal Growth of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu Oxides and Its Superconductivity.- Progress in Processings of Oxide Superconductor.- Microstructure and Transport Properties of Oxide Superconductors.- Completely Textured Yttrium Barium Cuprate Superconductors.- Densification and Critical Current Density of YBa2Cu3Ox Ceramics.- Processing of Dense, Fine Grained YBa2Cu3Ox Ceramics Using a Spray-Drying Technique.- Effect of Cu and Sources on Powder Processing and Densification of Superconducting YBa2Cu3Ox Ceramic.- YBa2Cu3O7-? Superconductor-Insulator Composites - The Percolation Limit and Device Potential.- High-Tc Ceramic Superconductors Through Oxidation of Mechanically Alloyed Y-Ba-Cu and Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu Powders.- Densification Behavior of YBa2Cu3O7-? Sintering.- Preparation and Superconducting Properties of Y-Ba-Cu and Y-Ba-Cu-F Oxides.- Preparation of High Tc Superconductive Thin Tape from Acid Salts.- Superconducting Properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O Sheet by a Tape Casting Method.- Critical Current Densities of Silver Sheathed Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu Oxide Superconducting Tapes.- Fabrication and Properties of Superconducting Ba-Y-Cu-O and Bi-Ca-Sr-Cu-O Tapes.- Multi-Layered Superconducting YBa2Cu3Oy Thick Films on Y2BaCuO5 Substrate.- Prep