Superconductors

A. V. Narlikar has been an active researcher in the field of superconductors for over 50 years. He received PhD and ScD degrees in this field from the University of Cambridge, UK. For 30 years Professor Narlikar headed the Superconductivity Division at the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi. He is presently a Senior Scientist and a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, working at UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research in Indore. He is also a Visiting Scientist in the Applied Superconductivity and Cryoscience Group at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Cambridge. He has contributed over 300 papers to international refereed journals and over 50 edited/authored books on superconductors, published by international publishers.

1. Onnes' discovery and hundred years of superconductors ; 2. The superconducting state ; 3. Superconducting transition and its basic phenomenology ; 4. Thermodynamics and general properties ; 5. Advent of type-II superconductors ; 6. Critical current and flux pinning ; 7. Superconductors in abundance ; 8. Niobium-zirconium and niobium-titanium alloys ; 9. A-15 superconductors ; 10. Conductor development of A-15 superconductors ; 11. Chevrel phase superconductors ; 12. Rare-earth based ternary superconductors and quaternary borocarbides ; 13. Heavy fermion superconductors ; 14. Organic superconductors ; 15. Superconducting magnesium diboride ; 16. High temperature cuprate superconductors ; 17. Thin film technology and conductor development of HTS cuprates ; 18. Bulk HTS cuprates ; 19. Ruthenates and ruthenocuprates ; 20. Fe based superconductors ; 21. Miscellaneous superconductors