Type I Superconductors: Materials and Applications
Prashant Hitaishi, Rohit Verma, Parul Khurana and Sheenam Thatai
Superconductors are materials that show properties of perfect diamagnetism and zero resistivity or infinite conductivity below a well-defined temperature known as critical temperature and, in the presence of a magnetic field that is less than a critical value. Based on their behaviour to the externally applied magnetic field, superconductors are divided into two categories; Type-I and Type-II superconductors. In this chapter, we have described various Type-I superconductors, their critical temperatures, history of superconductivity, physical properties, applications, and recent researches on Type-I superconductors, various theories proposed for explaining their properties, and different applications of superconductors.
Keywords
Superconductors (SCs), Type-I SCs, Meissner Effect, Theories of Low-Temperature Superconductors, Applications of Superconductors
Published online 10/5/2022, 23 pages
Citation: Prashant Hitaishi, Rohit Verma, Parul Khurana and Sheenam Thatai, Type I Superconductors: Materials and Applications, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 132, pp 108-130, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902110-6
Part of the book on Superconductors
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