The field of superconductivity has tremendous potential for growth and further development in industrial applications. The subject continues to occupy physicists, chemists, and engineers interested in both the phenomena itself and possible financially viable industrial devices utilizing the physical concepts. For the past five years, within the publications of the American Physical Society, for example, 40%-60% of all articles submitted to major journals in the area of Solid State Physics have been on the subject of superconductivity, including the newer, extremely important subfield of high temperature superconductivity (high Tc). The present volume is the first handbook to address this field. It covers both "classic" superconductivity-related topics and high Tc. Numerous properties, including thermal, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, phase diagrams, and spectroscopic crystallographic structures are presented for many types of superconductors. Critical fields, critical currents, coherence lengths, penetration depths, and transition temperatures are tabulated.

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Ch. 1 Introduction / Charles P. Poole Jr. -- Ch. 2 Properties of the normal metallic state / Charles P. Poole Jr. -- Ch. 3 Superconducting State / Charles P. Poole .Jr -- Ch. 4 Models and theories / Charles P. Poole .Jr -- Ch. 5 Superconductor Types / Charles P. Poole Jr., Paul C. Canfield, Arthur P. Ramirez -- Ch. 6 Crystal Structures of Classical Superconductors / Roman Gladyshevskii, Karin Cenzual -- Ch. 7 Cuprates / Charles P. Poole Jr, Frank J. Owens -- Ch. 8 Crystal Structures of High-Tc Superconducting Cuprates / Roman Gladyshevskii, Philippe Galez -- Ch. 9 Characteristic parameters / Charles P. Poole Jr., John F. Zasadzinski, Roberta K. Zasadzinski, Philip B. Allen -- Ch. 10 Thermal properties / Ctirad Uher, Charles P. Poole jr., Alan B. Kaiser -- Ch. 11 Electrical properties / Charles P. Poole Jr. -- Ch. 12 Magnetic properties / Charles P. Poole Jr. -- Ch. 13 Mechanical properties / Ronald G. Munro -- Ch. 14 Phase Diagrams / Winnie Wong-Ng