SYLLABUS

University: Technical University of Košice

Faculty: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics

Department: Department of Physics

Course Number: 2618991

Course Name: Superconductive Materials

Type, scope and method of learning activities: Course Type: Lecture, Seminar Recommended scope of the course content (in hours): Full-time study (hours per week): 2,2 Part-time study (hours per semester): WT 26,26 Study Method: Attendance

Number of credits: 6

Recommended semester of study: WT

Recommended semester

Study programme

Study grade

Study Method

2.rok WT

Physical Engineering of Advanced Materials (FIPM_Ing_D_sk)

Master

Attendance

Level of study:

Prerequisites:

Course completion requirements: Assessment and completion of the course: Credit test and examination Continuous assessment: Student passes the continuous assessment and receives credits when he or she meets the requirement to obtain at least 21% out of 40%. Credit test Final assessment: Student passes the final assessment and passes the examination when he or she meets the requirement to obtain at least 31% out of 60%. Written test and oral exam Overall assessment: Overall assessment is the sum of the assessments obtained by students in the assessment period. The overall result is determined in accordance with the internal regulations of the Technical University in Košice. (Study Regulations, the internal regulation principles of doctoral studies)

Learning outcomes: To provide students a basic knowledge on superconductivity and its applications in material science.

Brief course content: Part 1: Historical overview Liquifaction of helium.  Discovery of superconductivity. Zero electrical resistance. Ideal diamagnetism. Part 2:  Fundamental experimental properties of  type I superconductors. Condensation energy. Screening of magnetic field. Demagnetisation factor. Intermediate statev. Specific heat of superconductors. Optical properties. Part 3: BCS theory. Cooper pairs. Phonon mechanism of superconductivity. Superconducting transition temperature. Temperature dependence of the superconducting energy gap. Quasiparticle tunnelling. Part 4: Ginzburg : Landau phenomenological theory of superconductivity. Part 5: Fundamental experimental properties of  type II superconductors. Penetration depth. Coherence length. Superconducting vortices. Upper and lower critical magnetic fields. Surface critical magnetic field. Part 6: Josephson effect. Part 7: Non conventional superconductivity. Anisotropic energy gap, non phonon mechanism of superconductivity, high temperature superconductors, heavy Fermion superconductors, phase transitions in vortex phases.

Recommended Reference Sources: 1. M. Tinkham:  Introduction to Superconductivity, 2-nd edition, Mc Graw-Hill,  New York 1996 2. S. Takács a L.Cesnak.:  Supravodivosť, Alfa , Bratislava 1979 3. Ch. Kittel: Úvod do fyziky pevných látek, Academia, Praha 1985. 4. Ch. Kittel: Introduction to Solid State Physics, 7th edition, John Wiley and sons, New York 1996. 5. R. Kužel et al.: Úvod do fyziky kovú II, SNTL, Praha 1985.

Recommended optional program components:

Languages required for the course completion: Slovak, English

Notes:

Course assessment: Total number of students assessed: 17

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18%

12%

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6%

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Teacher: doc. RNDr. Jozef Kravčák, PhD. RNDr. Peter Vrábel, PhD.

Last modified: 31.08.2022

Approved by: person(s) responsible for the study program