Nanostructured superconductors / Victor V Moshchalkov, Joachim Fritzsche.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-294) and index.

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1. Introduction. 1.1. Quantization and confinement in nano-materials. 1.2. Nanostructuring. 1.3. Confining the superconducting condensate. 1.4. Nucleation of superconductivity in presence of spatially modulated magnetic fields. 1.5. Vortex matter in superconductors. 1.6. Flux pinning -- 2. Individual nanostructures. 2.1. Line. 2.2. Loop. 2.3. Disc. 2.4. The cross-over from loop to dot. 2.5. Symmetry-induced antivortices in mesoscopic superconductors. 2.6. The magnetization of singly connected nanostructures. 2.7. Dynamic effects in mesoscopic structures. 2.8. Hybrid individual cells -- 3. Clusters of nanocells. 3.1. One-dimensional clusters of loops. 3.2. Two-dimensional clusters of antidots. 3.3. Magnetically coupled loops -- 4. Laterally nanostructured superconductors. 4.1. The T[symbol](H) phase boundary of superconducting films with an antidot lattice. 4.2. Pinning in laterally nanostructured superconductors. 4.3. Ratchet effects in antidot lattices -- 5. Superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid systems. 5.1. Field polarity dependent vortex pinning in laterally nanostructured S/F systems. 5.2. Field induced superconductivity. 5.3. Dipole-induced vortex ratchet effects. 5.4. Superconductivity in stray fields of magnetic domains.

The main focus of the book is to present the effects of nanostructuring on superconducting critical parameters. Optimizing systematically flux and condensate confinement in various nanostructured superconductors, ranging from single nano-cells to their huge arrays, critical fields and currents can be increased up to their theoretical limits, thus drastically improving the potential for practical applications of nanostructured superconductors.

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