Materials Science in Static High Magnetic Fields: (4 Advances in Materials Research)

Today high magnetic fields play an increasingly important role in many scientific fields. Formerly their use was largely restricted to the measurement of physical phenomena and the characterization of materials. But more recently they have found application in many new areas such as materials processing, crystal growth, and even in chemistry and biology. This book gives a broad survey of some of the most exciting recent applications of high magnetic fields, with the emphasis on materials science. These include, among others, the study of conventional and high-Tc superconductors, semiconductors, low-dimensional organic conductors, conducting polymers and protein crystallization. Each chapter begins with a general introduction and goes on to present detailed experimental results together with their interpretation. Researchers and students alike will find this book an excellent introduction to, and overview of current applications of static high magnetic fields.

Table of Contents:
I General Review of Static High Magnetic Fields.- 1 Static High Magnetic Fields and Materials Science.- II High-Tc Oxide High Field Superconductors.- 2 Vortex Phase Diagram of High-Tc Superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy in High Magnetic Fields.- 3 Magnetic Ordering and Superconductivity in La-based High-Tc Superconductors.- 4 Flux-Pinning Properties for CVD Processed YBa2Cu3O7 Films.- 5 Practical Application of High Temperature Superconductors.- III Conventional High-Field Superconductors.- 6 Highly Strengthened Nb3Sn Superconducting Wires.- 7 Development of Nb3Al Superconductors.- 8 High-Field A15 Superconductors Prepared Via New Routes.- IV Magnetic and Optical Properties in High Fields.- 9 Magnetic Properties of Rare-Earth Monopnictides in High Magnetic Fields.- 10 High-Field Magnetization Process and Crystalline Electric Field Interaction in Rare-Earth Permanent-Magnet Materials.- 11 Study of Covalent Spin Interactions in Cd1?xMnxSe by Cryobaric Magnetophotoluminescence.- V Other High Field Physical Properties.- 12 Magnetic Properties of III?-V Ferromagnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As.- 13 Transport Properties of the Half-Filled Landau Level in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures: Temperature Dependence of Electrical Conductivity and Magnetoresistance of Composite Fermions.- 14 Novel Electronic States in Low-Dimensional Organic Conductors.- 15 High-Field Successive Phase Transitions of Spin-Density-Wave Organic Conductors ?-(BEDT-TTF)2MHg(XCN)4 [M=K, Rb and NH4 and X=S and Se].- 16 NMR/NQR Studies on Magnetism of Spin Ladder Sr14?xAx Cu24O41(A=Ca and La).- 17 NMR Study of the Tl-Based High-Tc Cuprate Tl(Ba,Sr)2(Y,Ca)Cu2O7 in a Wide Hole Concentration Range from the Antiferromagnetic to the Overdoped Region.- VI Chemistry, Biology and Crystal Growth in High Fields.- 18 MagneticLevitation.- 19 Effects of a Magnetic Field on the Crystallization of Protein.- 20 Magnetoelectrochemistry with a Conducting Polymer.- 21 Highly Oriented Crystal Growth of Bi-Based Oxide High-Tc Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields.- References.

Review :
This book gives a broad survey of some of the most exciting recent applications of high magnetic fields, with the emphasis on materials science...Researchers and students alike will find this book an excellent introduction to, and overview of, current applications of static high magnetic fields. --Materials World