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• THERMAL PHENOMENA IN HIGH-T_c THIN-FILM SUPERCONDUCTORS  download article

Markus I. Flik
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139

Chang-Lin Tien
NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California

ABSTRACT

The discovery of superconductivity at liquid-nitrogen temperatures offers very promising prospects for the development of powerful hybrid electronic semiconductor-superconductor devices. The basic elements in these devices are thin films of high-T_c superconductors on crystalline substrates. This work discusses significant thermodynamic and heat and mass transfer problems arising from the application of thin-film superconductors and reviews the relevant literature. It covers processing techniques, characterization methods, thermal stability criteria, and microscale heat transfer phenomena.

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