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superconducting plate
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Type I
Exhibits perfect diamagnetism below
transition temperature Tc and has only one
critical magnetic field Bc.
Type II
Totally expels and excludes magnetic flux
below lower critical field Bc1 and partially
does so between Bc1 and upper critical field
Bc2; all superconductors except elements
are Type II. This type has a larger Tc than
that of a Type I superconductor.
COOPER PAIRS
Cooper pairs can tunnel together through the insulating layer of Josephson Junction.
A changing magnetic field induces a current to flow in a ring of metal, this effect
can be used to detect flux quanta. Radio Astronomy uses these devices frequently.
B. C. S.
Nobel Prize 1972 for their theory of 1957 which
explained conventional superconductors: nearly 50
years after their discovery by Kamerlingh Onnes!
APPLICATIONS OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY