Applied Super Conductivity
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The official GTU curriculum for Applied Super Conductivity (subject code 2741001) as prescribed for M(E · Semester 4 divides the course into 3 units, covering 48 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2741001)Unit 1 Superconductivity
- Transition Temperature
- Meissner– Ochsenfeld Effect
- Type I Superconductors
- Type II Superconductors
- Thermodynamics of Superconductors
- London Equations
- Pipard’s Equation
- Free energy function for super conductor
- Super conducting phase transition
- Coherence length and Zero electrical resistance
- Flux Quantization Josephson Effect
- BCS Theory
- Superconducting Magnetometer – Squid
- Superconductors With Unusual Properties – Organic Superconductors
- Magnetism and Superconductivity
- Heavy – Fermion Superconductors
- High –Tc Superconductors (HTS)
- HTS family
- Structural and electrical properties
- Applications of HTS
Unit 2 Super conducting Materials
- Material superconducting at LHe temperature
- Structure of material and composition
- High Tc cuparates
- structures properties and general future of various types of cuparates
- Electron super conductors
- ladder cuprates copper free oxide superconductors
- boro carbides
- super conducting fullerides and related materials preparation of cuparates materials making of films of superconductor by electron beam evaporation
- high pressure oxygen sputtering system
- lesser ablation method
Unit 3 Applications of Superconductivity
- 1) Magnets High field magnet application
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- medical diagnostics and spectroscopy
- Ore refining (Magnetic separators)
- Magnetic levitation
- Magnetic shielding
- Large physics machines 2) Energy related : Production by magnetic fusion and magneto hydrodynamics
- energy storage
- Electrical power transmission 3) Transportation: High speed trains
- Ship –drive system 4) Electronics and small devices: SQUIDS
- Josephson devices
- Electromagnetic shielding 5) Computers and information processing: Semiconductor-superconductor hybrids
- Active superconducting elements
- Voltage standard Optoelectronics
- Matched filters. 6) Applications in advance research References Books: 1
- Low Temperature Superconductivity & Superconductivity By Christian Enss & Siegfried Hunklinger 2
- Matter & Methods At Low Temperature By F.Pobell. 3
- Experimental low temperature physics by Anthony Kent