Abstract
This article briefly reviews ceramic superconductors from historical and materials perspectives. It describes the factors that distinguish high-temperature cuprate superconductors from most electronic ceramics and places them in the context of other families of superconducting materials. Finally, it describes some of the scientific issues presently being actively pursued in the search for the mechanism for high-temperature superconductivity and the directions of research into new superconducting ceramics in recent years.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 5-28 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Journal of the American Ceramic Society |
Volume | 83 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2000 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ceramics and Composites
- Materials Chemistry