Publisher's Synopsis
This title is a complete update of progress, issues and prospects in the processing and properties of long-length ceramic superconductors. Both niobium-based and oxide-based materials are examined. Academic and industrial researchers should be interested in the book's presentation of the most recent developments leading to commercially-viable routes to make long lengths of flexible superconductors using high-temperature superconducting materials, as well as its coverage of flux-pinning issues in conventional low-temperature superconductors.;The book is drawn from a collection of papers from Materials Week '93, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 17-21, 1993.
