JJAP Superconducting Materials Series 1 Nakajima Fukuyama 1988 No.106 62124002

JJAP Superconducting Materials Series 1 Nakajima Fukuyama 1988 No.106 62124002

This is the first volume in the JJAP Series published by the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, titled Superconducting Materials and edited by S. Nakajima and H. Fukuyama. It compiles reports from two consecutive Special Project Research programs funded by the Grant-in-Aid from Japan's Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: Report No.106 covering New Superconducting Materials (the three-year program from April 1984 through March 1987), and Report No.62124002 covering High Temperature Oxide Superconductors (the one-year extension through March 1988). The volume brings together contributions from individual scientists, project group leaders, historical surveys, and membership lists — providing a comprehensive record of Japanese national research into superconductivity during a pivotal era.

Specifications & What's Included

• Title: Superconducting Materials
• Series: JJAP Series 1
• Editors: S. Nakajima, H. Fukuyama
• Publisher: Publication Office, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Japan
• Publication Year: 1988
• Report No.106: New Superconducting Materials (April 1984 – March 1987)
• Report No.62124002: High Temperature Oxide Superconductors (1987, extended program)
• Sponsoring body: Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan (Grant-in-Aid of Scientific Research)
• ISSN: 0914-1880
• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Includes: Preface, individual researcher reports, group leader summaries, historical survey, member lists

Applications

This volume documents one of the most historically significant periods in condensed-matter physics — the years immediately surrounding the 1986 discovery by Bednorz and Müller of superconductivity in La-Ba-Cu-O at temperatures far above what had previously been achieved, a breakthrough that opened the modern field of high-temperature oxide superconductors and earned a Nobel Prize in 1987. The Japanese Ministry of Education's Special Project Research program described in this book was running concurrently, with Professor Shoji Tanaka's group among the first to confirm and extend those results. As a primary-source record of Japan's organized national research response to the high-Tc superconductor discovery, the volume is a reference for researchers, historians of science, and materials scientists studying oxide superconductors, critical temperature mechanisms, and the development of YBCO and related cuprate systems. It is relevant to academic libraries, university physics and materials science departments, and collectors of significant scientific literature from the late 1980s superconductivity revolution.