By Y. Bruynseraede, C. Vlekken, C. Van Haesendonck (auth.), Harold Weinstock, Richard W. Ralston (eds.)

This quantity relies at the complaints of the NATO-sponsored complex reports Institute (ASn at the New Superconducting Electronics (held 9-20 August 1992 in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire USA). The contents herein are meant to supply an replace to an previous quantity at the similar topic (based on a NATO ASI held in 1988). 4 years turns out a comparatively short while period, and our identify itself, that includes the recent Superconducting Electronics, might seem a little bit pretentious. however, we suppose strongly that the ASI fostered a well timed reexamination of the technical development and alertness capability of this rapid-paced box. There are, certainly, many new avenues for technological innovation that have been now not expected or thought of attainable 4 years in the past. the best advances via some distance have happened in regards to oxide superconductors, the so-called excessive­ transition-temperature superconductors, recognized in brief as HTS. those advances are mostly within the skill to manufacture either (1) fine quality, rather large-area motion pictures for microwave filters and (2) multilayer equipment buildings, largely superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) Josephson junctions, for superconducting-quantum-interference-device (SQUID) magnetometers. also, we've seen the discovery and improvement of the flux-flow transistor, a planar three-terminal machine. in the course of the previous ASI basically the first actual HTS motion pictures with sufficient critical-current density had simply been fabricated, and those have been of constrained quarter and had excessive resistance for microwave current.