Instructors: PD Dr.-Ing. habil. Uwe Niedermayer
Event type:
Lecture
Org-unit: Dept. 18 - Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Displayed in timetable as:
E:VLAng.Supraleitung
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German and English
Min. | Max. participants:
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Course Contents:
- Basics of electrical conductivity at DC and RF
- Kamerligh-Onnes experiment, Meissner effect
- Superconductor state diagram
- London equations, Typ I / II Superconductor
- Cooper pairs (briefly: BCS theory, GL theory)
- Flux quantization, Flux vortices
- AC superconductivity, two fluid model, RF cavities
- Cooper pair tunneling, Josephson junctions
- Metrology: SQUIDs, (quantum-) Hall effect
- Superconductor magnetization, Hysteresis, Bean‘s model
- Applications: Magnets in accelerator and medical technology, precision field and current measurements, energy engineering
Literature:
- W. Buckel, R. Kleiner: „Supraleitung Grundlagen und Anwendungen“; Wiley VCH, 7. Auflage 2013.
- R.G. Sharma; „Superconductivity, Basics and Applications to Magnets“; Springer International Publishing, 2015 (online available).
- H. Padamsee: „RF-Superconductivity“; Wiley VCH Weinheim, 2009.
- P. Seidel (Ed.), „Applied Superconductivity“, Wiley VCH Weinheim, 2015.
Preconditions:
Electrodynamics (Maxwell’s equations)
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