High-Tc Superconductivity 1996: Ten Years after the Discovery

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Discovery Of High-T C Superconductivity And Its Decisive Circumstances....Pages 1-6
’s’ and ‘d’ Wave Symmetry Components in High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors....Pages 7-29
Theory Aspects of High - Temperature Superconductivity....Pages 31-93
Novel Two-Dimensional Perovskites....Pages 95-108
Mechanisms Generating Layered Cuprates and Oxycarbonates: Classification....Pages 109-133
Mercurocuprates: The Highest Transition-Temperature Superconductors....Pages 135-175
High Pressure Crystal Growth and Properties of HgBa 2 Ca n−1 Cu n O 2n+2+8 , Sr 1−x CuO 2 , CaCuO 2 and Y 2 Ba 4 Cu 6+n O 14+n ....Pages 177-198
Non-Toxic HTSC Materials. Substitution in the Charge Reservoir Layer:« Cupro/Carbonate » Cuprates and Related Materials....Pages 199-219
Noncuprate Layered Perovskite Superconductor....Pages 221-242
The Two-Component Paradigm for Superconductivity in the Cuprates....Pages 243-256
Charge Reservoirs, Phase Separation and Optical Excitations in the Two-Component Picture....Pages 257-279
Structural Phase Transitions and Superconductivity in Lanthanum Copper Oxides....Pages 281-310
Magnetic Properties of Single-Layer Cuprates....Pages 311-348
Structural Phase Transitions and Incommensurate Spin Fluctuations in the La 2 CuO 4+y System....Pages 349-370
Phase Separation and Stripe-Like Modulation Observation in Cu-doped La 2 CuO 4+δ System....Pages 371-381
From a Homogeneous CuO 2 Plane to a Superlattice of Quantum Stripes....Pages 383-403
Lattice Effect and D-Electron Delocalization Effect Around Tc in Bi-Based High-Tc Superconductors....Pages 405-410
Lattice Instabilities, Structural Anomalies and Phase Transitions in Y 1−y Ca y Ba 2 Cu 3 O x Phases....Pages 411-446
Raman Scattering in the YBCO Compounds....Pages 447-468
Local Structure Studies of the Underdoped-Overdoped Transition in YBa 2 Cu 3 O x ....Pages 469-502
Neutron Spectroscopy of Rare Earths in Superconducting Materials....Pages 503-530
Tm NMR and Cu NQR Studies of Phase Separation in TmBaCuO Compounds....Pages 531-562
Applications of High-T c Superconductors....Pages 563-574
Back Matter....Pages 575-580