Abstract
It is a great pleasure to be invited to join the chorus on this auspicious occasion to celebrate Professor K. Alex Mueller’s 90th birthday by Professors Annette Bussman-Holder, Hugo Keller, and Antonio Bianconi. As a student in high temperature superconductivity, I am forever grateful to Professor Alex Mueller and Dr. Georg Bednorz “for their important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in the ceramic materials” in 1986 as described in the citation of their 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. It is this breakthrough discovery that has ushered in the explosion of research activities in high temperature superconductivity (HTS) and has provided immense excitement in HTS science and technology in the ensuing decades till now. Alex has not been resting on his laurels and has continued to search for the origin of the unusual high temperature superconductivity in cuprates.
Dedicated to Alex Mueller, whose “important breakthrough in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials” in 1986 has changed the world of superconductivity.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
J.G. Bednorz, K.A. Müller, Z. Phys. B 64, 189 (1986)
C.W. Chu, AAPPS Bull. 18, 9 (2008)
R. Kleiner, F. Steinmeyer, G. Kunkel, P. Müller, Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 2394 (1992)
D. Allender, J. Bray, J. Bardeen, Phys. Rev. B 7, 1020 (1973)
J. Pereiro, A. Petrovic, C. Panagopoulos, I. Bozovic, Phys. Express 1, 208 (2011)
B. Lv et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 15705 (2011)
S.R. Saha et al., Phys. Rev. B 85, 024525 (2012)
L.Z. Deng et al., Phys. Rev. B 93, 054513 (2016)
H. Xiao et al., Phys. Rev. B 85, 024530 (2012)
S. Ran et al., Phys. Rev. B 83, 144517 (2011)
B. Saparov et al., Sci. Rep. 4, 4120 (2014)
K. Zhao et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 12968 (2016)
A. Kreyssig et al., Phys. Rev. B 78, 184517 (2008)
L. Gao et al., Phys. Rev. B 50, 4260(R) (1994.) and references therein
X.J. Chen et al., Nature 466, 950 (2010.) and references therein
T. Muramatsu, D. Pham, C.W. Chu, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 052508 (2011)
M.R. Presland et al., Phys. C 176, 95 (1991)
D.H. Lee, Chin. Phys. B 24, 117405 (2015)
L.L. Sun et al., Nature 483, 67 (2012)
A.P. Drozdov et al., Nature 525, 73 (2015)
See for example, “Materials by Design: An NSF-Sponsored Workshop at UC Santa Barbara”, March 17–19, 2011. http://www.mbd.mrl.ucsb.edu
D.Y. Kim, R.H. Scheicher, R. Ahuja, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 077002 (2009)
Y.W. Li et al., Sci. Rep. 5, 9948 (2015)
M. Einaga et al., Nat. Phys. 12, 835 (2016)
I. Troyan et al., Science 351, 1303 (2016)
X. L. Huang et al., arXiv:1610.02630v1 [cond-mat.supr-con] (2016)
L. S. Mazov, arXiv:1510.00123v1 [cond-mat.supr-con] (2015)
Acknowledgements
I would like to express my gratitude to current and former students and colleagues at TCSUH, B. Lv, Z. Wu, Y.Y. Xue, L.Z. Deng, S.Y. Huyan, H.M. Yuan, B. Lorenz, M. Gooch, F.Y. Wei, Y.Y. Sun, J.K. Meen, K. Zhao, L. Gao, F. Chen, T. Muramatsu, and D. Pham, for technical assistance and discussion. The work in Houston is supported in part by US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant FA9550-15-1-0236, the T. L. L. Temple Foundation, the John J. and Rebecca Moores Endowment, and the State of Texas through the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2017 Springer International Publishing AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Chu, C.W. (2017). The Search for Higher Tc in Houston. In: Bussmann-Holder, A., Keller, H., Bianconi, A. (eds) High-Tc Copper Oxide Superconductors and Related Novel Materials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 255. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52675-1_2
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52675-1_2
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52674-4
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-52675-1
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)