Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tutorial on nanostructured superconductors / Roger Wördenweber and Johan Vanacken -- Imaging vortices in superconductors: from the atomic scale to macroscopic distances / Isabel Guillamón, Jose Gabriel Rodrigo, Sebastián Vieira, and Hermann Suderow -- Probing vortex dynamics on a single vortex level by scanning ac-susceptibility microscopy / Joris Van de Vondel, Bart Raes, and Alejandro V. Silhanek -- STM studies of vortex cores in strongly confined nanoscale superconductors / Tristan Cren, Christophe Brun, and Dimitri Roditchev -- Type-1.5 superconductivity / E. Babaev, J. Carlström, M. Silaev, and J.M. Speight -- Direct visualization of vortex patterns in superconductors with competing vortex-vortex interactions / Jun-Yi Ge, Vladimir N. Gladilin, Joffre Gutierrez, and Victor V. Moshchalkov -- Vortex dynamics in nanofabricated chemical solution deposition high-temperature superconducting films / Anna Palau, Victor Rouco, Roberto F. Luccas, Xavier Obradors, and Teresa Puig -- Artificial pinning sites and their applications / Roger Wördenweber -- Vortices at microwave frequencies / Enrico Silva, Nicola Pompeo, and Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy -- Physics and operation of superconducting single-photon devices / Alexander Korneev, Alexander Semenov, Denis Vodolazov, Gregory N. Gol'tsman, and Roman Sobolewski -- Josephson and charging effect in mesoscopic superconducting devices / Davide Massarotti, Thilo Bauch, Floriana Lombardi, and Francesco Tafuri -- NanoSQUIDs: Basics and recent advances / Maria José Martínez-Pérez and Dieter Koelle -- Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O intrinsic Josephson junction stacks as emitters of terahertz radiation / Reinhold Kleiner and Huabing Wang -- Interference phenomena in superconductor-ferromagnet hybrids / Alexander Mel'nikov, Sergey Mironov, and Alexander Buzdin -- Spin-orbit interactions, spin currents, and magnetization dynamics in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids / Jacob Linder and Sol H. Jacobsen-- Superconductor/ferromagnet hybrids / Mark Giffard Blamier.

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By covering theory, design, and fabrication of nanostructured superconducting materials, this monograph is an invaluable resource for research and development. Examples are energy saving solutions, healthcare, and communication technologies. Key ingredients are nanopatterned materials which help to improve the superconducting critical parameters and performance of superconducting devices, and lead to novel functionalities. ContentsTutorial on nanostructured superconductorsImaging vortices in superconductors: from the atomic scale to macroscopic distancesProbing vortex dynamics on a single vortex level by scanning ac-susceptibility microscopySTM studies of vortex cores in strongly confined nanoscale superconductorsType-1.5 superconductivityDirect visualization of vortex patterns in superconductors with competing vortex-vortex interactionsVortex dynamics in nanofabricated chemical solution deposition high-temperature superconducting filmsArtificial pinning sites and their applicationsVortices at microwave frequenciesPhysics and operation of superconducting single-photon devicesJosephson and charging effect in mesoscopic superconducting devicesNanoSQUIDs: Basics and recent advancesBi2Sr2CaCu2O8 intrinsic Josephson junction stacks as emitters of terahertz radiation.

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