Workshop on Research Needs and Opportunities in High TemperatureSuperconductivity Held in Copper Mountain, Colorado in 19-20 August 1991

摘要

This is the report of the Workshop on New Research Opportunities inSuperconductivity held at Copper Mountain, Colorado on August 19-20,1991. The workshop is a follow-up to two previous meetings to evaluate progress in superconductivity. The first, held at Copper Mountain, Colorado in 1983, focuses on low-temperature superconductors (LTS), while the second-in 1988 examined the progress of low-temperature materials and the potential of the then recently-discovered high-temperature superconductors (HTS). The summaries of these two superconductivity workshops were published in Cryogenics (July 1984, p.378; and November 1988, p.711). This workshop was the first in this series to concentrate largely on high-temperature superconductors. Its objectives were to identify the barriers limiting progress in high-temperature materials and to assess research areas that are ripe for important advances. The workshop was organized in four sessions, with Robert C.Dynes and Victor J. Emery leading the session on Fundamentals, Charles M. Falco and Donald U. Gubser leading the session on Materials, David K. Christen and Harry Kroger leading the session on Thin Films and Devices, and Sungho Jin and David T. Shaw leading the session on Bulk Materials and Large-Scale Applications. The organizational committee for the workshop consisted of David K. Christen, Alan F. Clark, Robert C. Dynes, Donald H. Liebenberg, David L. Nelson, and David T. Shaw (chair).