Foundations of Applied Superconductivity

By Terry Orlando,&nbspKevin A. Delin,

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Number Of Pages: 584
Publication Date:
Sales Rank: 1474763
ISBN / ASIN: 0201183234
EAN: 9780201183238
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Studio: Prentice Hall
Average Rating: 5

Review:

An excelent graduate textbook

As a Physics professor, I have used this book for five years as the main textbook for my course "Introduction to Superconductivity", typically attended by Physics majors and graduates. Beyond its unique "electrical engineering flavour" (including the detailed explanation of many potential applications of superconductors), there is a second major achievement: the systematic unification of the phenomenology of superconductivity using an explicit macroscopic quantum approach.

This approach could be seen as a "mathematically softened" version of the Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity, which makes it very convenient for undergraduate and graduate students --being engineers or physicists. The presentation of the material is extremely clear, with a very careful notation (typical of electrical engineers!) and excellent graphic material. There are appendices ranging from vector identities and special functions to High Tc data, which make the book very self-consistent. I recommend it as a rigorous introduction to the phenomenology of superconductivity without any reserve. It is really a pity that --as far as I know--there's no exercise solution book available!

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