Science and Technology of Thin Film Superconductors, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989

The Conference on the Science and Technology of Thin Film Superconductors was conceived in the early part of 1988 as a forum for the specialist in thin film superconductivity. The conference was held on November 14-18, 1988, in Co lorado Springs, Co lorado. Al though many excellent superconductivity conferences had been convened in the wake of the 1986-1987 discoveries in high temperature superconductivity, thin film topics were often dispersed among the sessions of a more general conference agenda. The response to the Conference on the Science and Technology of Thin Film Superconductors confirmed the need for an extended conference devoted to thin film superconductors. These proceedings are a major contribution to the technnology of thin film superconductivity because of the breadth and quality of the articles provided by leaders in the field. The proceedings are divided into articles on laser deposition, sputtering, evaporation, metal organic chemical vapor deposition, thick film, substrate studies, characterization, patterning and applications, and general properties. Most of the articles discuss scientific issues for high temperature thin film superconductors, although the conference was to be a forum for technology and scientific questions for both low and high temperature superconductivity. For the first day of the 5 day conference, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory had organized an excellent set of short courses in superconduc t ing thin film devices.

Laser Deposition.- Superconducting Properties of Ultra-Thin Films of Y1Ba2Cu3O7-x.- Plasma-Assisted Laser Deposition of Superconducting Thin Films — A Basic Study.- Formation of Bi(Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films at 500°C by a Successive Deposition Method Using Excimer Laser.- The Effect of Annealing Conditions on Laser Deposited Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films.- Pulsed Laser Evaporation of Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O Films.- Preparation of High Temperature Superconductor Thin Films on Si Based Substrates by Excimer Laser Ablation, Film-Substrate Interactions, and Plasma Processing Effects on Crystallinity.- Laser Ablation Analysis of 1–2–3 Material.- Microstructural Investigation of YBa2Cu3O7-? Films Deposited by Laser Ablation from BaF2/Y2O3/CuO Targets.- Evaporation.- Preparation of Thin and Thick Film Superconductors in the Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O System.- In-Situ Growth of High Tc Thin Films.- High Tc Thin Film Research at NRL.- Properties of In-Situ Superconducting Y1Ba2Cu3O7-x Films by Molecular Beam Epitaxy with an Activated Oxygen Source.- Properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films Grown In-Situ at Low Temperatures by Co-Evaporation and Plasma Oxidation.- YBa2Cu3O7 Thin Films Prepared by Evaporation from Yttrium, Copper and BaF2.- A Simple Technique to Prepare High Quality Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-Oxide Thin Films.- Preparation of Thin Films YBaCu(F)O with High Tc and Jc.- Sputtering.- Superconducting Phase Control for Rare-Earth-Free High-Tc Superconducting Thin Films.- As-Deposited Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films on Si, SiO2, GaAs and Ni/Cu Substrates by High Pressure DC Sputtering Process.- Superconducting Properties of Magnetron Sputtered Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O and Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films.- Film Fabrication of Artificial (BiO)/(SrCaCuO) Layered Structure.- Magnetron Sputteringof Thin Films of Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O.- Interaction of High Temperature Superconductors with Conductive Oxides.- Preparation and Characterizations of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting Thin Films.- Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Compositional Modulation and Multilayered Film Synthesis by Plasma Controlled Sputtering.- High Tc Y-Ba-Cu-O Films Prepared by Multilayer, Reactive Sputtering from Separate Y, Cu, and Ba0.5Cu0.5 Targets.- Superconducting Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films.- TL-Based Superconducting Films by Sputtering Using a Single Target.- Structure and Properties of Magnetron Sputtered Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Films.- Effect of Annealing Conditions on the Structural and Superconducting Properties of Y-Ba-Cu-O Films.- Synthesis of Bi2Sr2CanCun+1Ox Films by Multilayer Deposition Technique.- Study of High Quality YBa2Cu3O7-y Thin Films.- Deposition of TlBaCaCuO Thin Films.- Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition.- Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Highly Textured Superconducting YBa2Cu3O7-x Films.- Metal-Organics for CVD of HTcS.- Organometallic Chemical Vapor Deposition of Superconducting YBaCuO Films and Post-Deposition Processing.- Thick Film.- Melt Growth of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconducting Sheets and Filaments.- Structural and Electrical Properties of Screen Printed and Spray Pyrolized High Tc Superconducting Films.- Spray-Deposited Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films.- Substrate Studies.- Microstructure and Critical Currents of YBa2Cu3O7-x Thin Films on SrTiO3 and a New Substrate: KTaO3.- Growth of High-Temperature Superconductor Thin Films on Lanthanum Aluminate Substrates.- Superconducting Films of YBCO on Bare Silicon.- Perovskite Related Substrates for Superconductor Films — Rare Earth Orthogallates.- Preparation of Superconducting Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films on MetallicSubstrates.- Substrate-HTcS Thin Film Interaction Studies by (S)TEM.- Characterization of ZrO2 Buffer Layers for Sequentially Evaporated Y-Ba-Cu-O on Si and Al2O3 Substrates.- Characterization.- The Transport Behavior of the YBaCuO Superconducting Thin Films in the Magnetic Fields.- Magnetization, Flux Creep and Transport in Tl-Ca-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films.- Composition Analysis of High Tc Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Thin Films by RBS and EPMA.- Determination of the Superconducting Transition Onset Temperature in Small-Volume Specimens.- Measurement of Superconducting Transition Temperatures of Thin Films of YBa2Cu3O7 by Four-Terminal Resistance and Magnetic Susceptibility.- Determination of Oxidation States of Copper in YBaCuO Thin Films by Electrochemical Analysis.- Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conduction in HTcS.- Patterning and Applications.- Photodetection with High-Tc Superconducting Films.- The Fabrication of Josephson Junctions on Y-Ba-Cu-O Thin Films.- Non-Aqueous One-Micron Feature Size Lithography.- Limitations Due to the Critical Current Density in Superconducting Lines for Future VLSI Packaging.- Coevaporated Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu Oxide Films and Their Patterning.- dV/dI Double Peak Structures in Superlattice-Based Tunnel Junctions.- Processing and Patterning Techniques for Thin Films of YBa2Cu3O7.- High Magnetic Field Shielding with Superconducting NbTi-Cu Multilayer Films.- General Properties.- to Superconductivity.- Fermiology of High Tc Films and the Proximity Effect.- The High Tc TL-BA-CA-CU-O Superconducting System.- Participants.