From High-Temperature Superconductivity to Microminiature Refrigeration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Selected Papers of William A. Little

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Layman’s Guide to the Reprint Collection

      1. A Layman’s Guide to the Reprint Collection

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 3-5

   3. Energy Transfer

      1. Photo-Fluorescence Decay Times of Organic Phosphors

         • J. B. Birks, W. A. Little

         Pages 7-14

      2. The Transport of Heat Between Dissimilar Solids at Low Temperatures

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 15-30

   4. Superconductivity and Superfluidity

      1. Observation of Quantum Periodicity in the Transition Temperature of a Superconducting Cylinder

         • W. A. Little, R. D. Parks

         Pages 31-34

      2. Possibility of Synthesizing an Organic Superconductor

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 35-43

      3. Superconductivity at Room Temperature

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 45-51

      4. Specific Heat of He3 and He4 in the Neighborhood of their Critical Points

         • M. R. Moldover, W. A. Little

         Pages 53-55

      5. Decay of Persistent Currents in Small Superconductors

         • William A. Little

         Pages 57-64

      6. The Prospects of Excitonic Superconductivity

         • H. Gutfreund, W. A. Little

         Pages 65-132

      7. Excitonic Superconductivity — The Missing Link

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 133-139

      8. Optical Evidence of an Electronic Contribution to the Pairing Interaction in Superconducting Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10

         • M. J. Holcomb, J. P. Collman, W. A. Little

         Pages 141-144

   5. Neural Networks

      1. The Existence of Persistent States in the Brain

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 145-164

      2. Physicist’s proof of Fermat’s theorem of primes

         • H. Gutfreund, W. A. Little

         Pages 165-166

   6. Refrigeration

      1. Scaling of Miniature Cryocoolers to Microminiature Size

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 167-172

   7. Historical

      1. Organic Superconductivity:The Duke Connection

         • W. A. Little

         Pages 173-185

      2. Bloch and the New Superconductors

         • William A. Little

         Pages 187-205

3. William A. Little Symposium and Invited Papers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Symposium Program

      1. Road to High Tc and Search for New Superconducting Systems

         • Vladimir Z. Kresin

         Pages 211-220

This volume, From High-Temperature Superconductivity to Microminiature Refrigeration, was compiled as a commemoration to Bill Little's rich scientific career over the past 40 years or more. He has contributed many seminal ideas to such diverse fields of physics as phonon physics at low temperatures, magnetic flux quantization in superconductors, high-temperature superconductivity, neural networks, and microminiature refrigerators. The rrrst section of the book contains a collection of reprints from Bill Little's most important scientific papers. These papers are preceded by an introduction by Bill himself, which gives many insights into the thinking processes that Ie.

• High-temperature superconductivity
• Superconductor
• polymer
• superconductivity

• Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  Blas Cabrera

• The Hebrew University Of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  H. Gutfreund

• Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University Of California, Berkeley, USA

  Vladimir Kresin

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