Superconductivity at IBM - a Centennial Review:
Part II – Materials and Physics

A. P. Malozemoff¹*, W. J. Gallagher², R. L. Greene³, R. B. Laibowitz⁴, C. C. Tsuei²

¹AMSC, 64 Jackson Rd, Devens MA 01434 USA, Consultant
²IBM Research, P. O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights NY 10598
³Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742
⁴Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York NY 10027
email: *[email protected]

Abstract - The history of materials and physics research in superconductivity at IBM Research spans a broad range of topics including major contributions in the discovery of organic and high temperature superconductors, elucidation of grain boundary critical currents and magnetic phase diagram, and proposals for the underlying mechanism of high temperature superconductivity.

Keywords - HTS, organic superconductors, nanostructures, YBCO, grain boundaries, giant flux creep, vortex glass, d-wave superconductor

Submitted to ESNF Feb. 27, 2012; accepted June 5, 2012.
Reference No. RN28-2; Categories 1, 2, 13.