Superconductivity in d- and f-band metals : [... proceedings of the Conference on Superconductivity in d- and f-Band Metals, held at the Univ. of Calif., San Diego, June 21-23, 1979

Superconductivity in d- and f-Band Metals focuses on the establishment of systematics among d- and f-band metals, with emphasis towards developing a fundamental theory with predictive capability for these complex materials. This book examines the unique physical qualities of the d- and f-band metals that challenge our basic understanding of several general aspects of superconductivity. Organized into 59 chapters, this compilation of papers starts with an overview of the homogeneity in d- and f-band systems that offer the opportunity for relating superconductivity to the normal state microscopic parameters. This book then explores several topics, including superconductors, phonon effects, electronic structure, A-15 systematics, as well as disorder and transport. Other chapters discuss the interrelationships between superconductivity and magnetism. This text discusses as well the magnetic field dependent effects in the rare-earth ternary compounds. The final chapter deals with the complexity of the crystal structures. This book is a valuable resource for materials scientists and physicists. Content: Front Matter , Page iii Copyright , Page iv List of Contributors , Pages ix-xv Preface , Pages xvii-xviii d- AND f-BAND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY - SOME EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS , Pages 1-11 , T.H. Geballe THEORETICAL OVERVIEW - EMPHASIS ON NEW MECHANISMS , Pages 13-21 , Marvin L. Cohen WORKING HYPOTHESES , Pages 23-24 , B.T. Matthias THIN FILMS AND METASTABLE PHASES , Pages 25-36 , J.R. Gavaler, A.I. Braginski, M. Ashkin, A.T. Santhanam SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN THE ACTINIDES , Pages 37-48 , James L. Smith SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN IRRADIATED PALLADIUM , Pages 49-55 , B. Stritzker CHARACTERISTICS OF GETTER SPUTTERED THIN FILMS OF Nb 3 Ge AND MULTILAYERED FILMS OF Nb 3 Ge/Nb 3 Ir , Pages 57-63 , P.H. Schmidt, J.M. Vandenberg, R. Hamm, J.M. Rowell LOW TEMPERATURE SPECIFIC HEAT OF PROTACTINIUM , Pages 65-70 , G.R. Stewart, J.L. Smith, J.C. Spirlet, W. Müller THE ADDITIVE PRESSURE DEPENDENCE OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE OF Th-Y ALLOYS , Pages 71-76 , John G. Huber ON THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF A15 COMPOUNDS , Pages 77-85 , Warren E. Pickett FERMI SURFACE MEASUREMENTS IN A-15 COMPOUNDS , Pages 87-98 , A.J. Arko, G.W. Crabtree, Z. Fisk THEORETICAL EVIDENCE FOR AN ELECTRONICALLY DRIVEN ISOSTRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSITION IN FCC LANTHANUM , Pages 99-103 , Warren E. Pickett, Arthur J. Freeman, Dale D. Koelling SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND CHARGE-DENSITY WAVES , Pages 105-112 , C.A. Balseiro, L.M. Falicov ANISOTROPY OF ELECTRON-PHONON INTERACTION AND SUPERCONDUCTING ENERGY GAP IN NIOBIUM , Pages 113-119 , G.W. Crabtree, D.H. Dye, D.P. Karim, J.B. Ketterson FERMI SURFACE OF Nb 3 Sb: MICROSCOPIC COMPARISON OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT , Pages 121-130 , A.T. van Kessel, H.W. Myron, F.M. Mueller, A.J. Arko, G. Crabtree, Z. Fisk RECENT CALCULATIONS OF PHONON SPECTRA OF TRANSITION METALS AND COMPOUNDS , Pages 131-142 , Werner Weber SOFT MODES AND LATTICE INSTABILITIES IN α-U , Pages 143-152 , H.G. Smith, N. Wakabayashi, W.P. Crummett, R.M. Nicklow, G.H. Lander, E.S. Fisher THE CURRENT STATUS OF EXPERIMENTAL TUNNELING RESULTS ON NIOBIUM , Pages 153-158 , J. Bostock, M.L.A. MacVicar, Gerald B. Arnold, John Zasadzinski, E.L. Wolf A PROXIMITY ELECTRON TUNNELING STUDY OF V AND V 3 Ga , Pages 159-164 , J. Zasadzinski, W.K. Schubert, E.L. Wolf, G.B. Arnold AN ELASTIC NEUTRON DIFFRACTION STUDY OF TRANSFORMING AND NON-TRANSFORMING SINGLE CRYSTAL ZrV 2 , Pages 165-171 , J. Bostock, M. Wong, M.L.A. MacVicar, M. Levinson FROZEN PHONON CALCULATIONS FOR THE L(2/3, 2/3, 2/3) PHONON OF NIOBIUM AND MOLYBDENUM , Pages 173-179 , B.N. Harmon, K.M. Ho INTERRELATION BETWEEN WEAK ITINERANT MAGNETISM AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN SOME d-BAND METAL COMPOUNDS , Pages 181-190 , Charles P. Enz THE CURRENT EXPERIMENTAL STATUS OF CuCl-RESEARCH , Pages 191-200 , C.W. Chu THE PAIRING INTERACTION IN SURFACE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY , Pages 201-206 , Werner Hanke, Alejandro Muramatsu SUPERCONDUCTIVITY IN 2D INHOMOGENEOUS NbN FILMS , Pages 207-213 , S.A. Wolf, D.U. Gubser, J.L. Feldman, Y. Imry EXOTIC PAIRING IN METALS: FORMALISM AND APPLICATION TO Nb AND Pd , Pages 215-222 , F.J. Pinski, P.B. Allen, W.H. Butler PROPERTIES OF s-p AND s-d TYPE A-15 SUPERCONDUCTORS - A COMPARISON , Pages 223-232 , A.L. Giorgi A-15 COMPOUNDS AND THEIR AMORPHOUS COUNTERPARTS , Pages 233-246 , C.C. Tsuei X-RAY DETERMINATION OF ANHARMONICITY IN V 3 Si , Pages 247-257 , J.-L. Staudenmann, L.R. Testardi PREFERRED ORIENTATION AND LATTICE REGISTRY EFFECTS OF Nb 3 Sn DIFFUSION LAYERS , Pages 259-264 , J. DeBroux, V. Diadiuk, J. Bostock, M.L.A. MacVicar EFFECTS OF ATOMIC ORDER ON THE UPPER CRITICAL FIELD AND RESISTIVITY OF A15 SUPERCONDUCTORS , Pages 265-271 , R. Flükiger, S. Foner, E.J. McNiff Jr. POSITRON ANNIHILATION EXPERIMENT ON V 3 Si , Pages 273-280 , A.A. Manuel, S. Samoilov, R. Sachot, P. Descouts, M. Peter STUDIES OF THE FERMI SURFACE OF V 3 Si BY 2D ACAR MEASUREMENTS , Pages 281-289 , S. Berko, W.S. Farmer, F. Sinclair THEORY OF RESISTIVITY “SATURATION” , Pages 291-304 , Philip B. Allen DENSITY OF STATES AND T c OF DISORDERED A15 COMPOUNDS , Pages 305-315 , A.K. Ghosh, Myron Strongin RESISTIVITY OF A15 COMPOUNDS , Pages 317-334 , Michael Gurvitch SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND ATOMIC ORDERING IN NEUTRON-IRRADIATED Nb 3 Ge. , Pages 335-347 , D.E. Cox, A.R. Sweedler, S. Moehlecke, L.R. Newkirk, F.A. Valencia DIRECT OBSERVATION OF DEFECTS IN A15 COMPOUNDS PRODUCED BY FAST NEUTRON IRRADIATION , Pages 349-353 , C.S. Pande RECOVERY OF T c BY ANNEALING IN DISORDERED Nb 3 Pt , Pages 355-361 , David Dew-Hughes, Randall Caton, Robert Jones, David O. Welch RADIATION DAMAGE IN A-15 MATERIALS: EXAFS STUDIES , Pages 363-368 , G.S. Knapp, R.T. Kampwirth, P. Georgopoulos, B.S. Brown TRANSPORT PROPERTIES, ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES AND T c IN DISORDERED A15 COMPOUNDS , Pages 369-379 , P. Müller, G. Ischenko, H. Adrian, J. Bieger, M. Lehmann, E.L. Haase MAGNETIC ORDERING IN RARE-EARTH TERNARY SUPERCONDUCTORS , Pages 381-389 , G. Shirane, W. Thomlinson, D.E. Moncton TRANSITIONS OF SUPERCONDUCTORS INTO FERRO- AND ANTIFERRO- MAGNETS , Pages 391-402 , C.M. Varma LOW TEMPERATURE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF ErRh 4 B 4 , Pages 403-408 , H.R. Ott, W. Odoni ION DAMAGE, CRITICAL CURRENT AND TUNNELING STUDIES OF ErRh 4 B 4 FILMS , Pages 409-418 , J.M. Rowell, R.C. Dynes, P.H. Schmidt MICROPROBE FIELD MEASUREMENTS IN ErRh 4 B 4 , Pages 419-425 , R. Dean Taylor, J.O. Willis NEUTRON SCATTERING STUDY OF THE MAGNETIC TRANSITION IN THE REENTRANT SUPERCONDUCTOR Ho 0.6 Er 0.4 Rh 4 B 4 , Pages 427-432 , H.A. Mook, W.C. Koehler, M.B. Maple, Z. Fisk, D.C. Johnston EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES OF THE FLUXOID LATTICE IN SINGLE-CRYSTAL NIOBIUM , Pages 433-441 , H.R. Kerchner, D.K. Christen, S.T. Sekula, P. Thorel PROGRESS IN CALCULATIONS OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING PROPERTIES OF TRANSITION METALS , Pages 443-453 , W.H. Butler CALCULATIONS OF THE SUPERCONDUCTING AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF A15 STRUCTURE COMPOUNDS , Pages 455-464 , Barry M. Klein, Dimitrios A. Papaconstantopoulos, Larry L. Boyer THE ELIASHBERG FUNCTION AND THE SUPERCONDUCTING T c OF TRANSITION METAL HEXABORIDES , Pages 465-471 , German Schell, Hermann Winter, Hermann Rietschel SUPERCONDUCTING HYDRIDES OF TRANSITION METAL ALLOYS , Pages 473-477 , C.B. Friedberg, A.F. Rex, J. Ruvalds LOW TEMPERATURE NORMAL-STATE ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY ANOMALIES IN SOME DISORDERED d-BAND SUPERCONDUCTORS , Pages 479-484 , R.R. Hake, S. Aryainejad, M.G. Karkut NEW TERNARY MOLYBDENUM CHALCOGENIDES , Pages 485-494 , Ø. Fischer, B. Seeber, M. Decroux, R. Chevrel, M. Potel, M. Sergent MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS IN TERNARY SUPERCONDUCTORS , Pages 495-499 , G.K. Shenoy, B.D. Dunlap, F.Y. Fradin, S.K. Sinha, C.W. Kimball HEAT CAPACITY AND ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY OF CHEVREL PHASE SUPERCONDUCTORS , Pages 501-508 , K.P. Nerz, U. Poppe, F. Pobell, M. Weger, H. Wühl MÖSSBAUER STUDY OF METAL CATIONS IN THE CHEVREL PHASES , Pages 509-513 , Byron Stafford, C.D. Barnet, C.W. Kimball, F.Y. Fradin THE INFLUENCE OF THE FORMAL ELECTRIC CHARGE ON THE SIZE OF THE TRANSITION METAL ATOM CLUSTER IN Y Rh 4 B 4 , Y Ru 4 B 4 AND Pb Mo 6 S 8 RELATED COMPOUNDS , Pages 515-519 , Klaus Yvon, Andreas Grüttner SELF-CONSISTENT ELECTRONIC BAND STRUCTURE OF CHEVREL PHASE COMPOUNDS , Pages 521-525 , T. Jarlborg, A.J. Freeman