Invited Papers of the Fifth International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity High Temperature Superconductors : Beijing, China, February 28-March 4, 1997

The discovery of high temperature superconductivity has not only opened many possibilities for potential technical applications, but has also provided a unique, challenging research subject for condensed matter physics and material sciences. High temperature superconductivity appears in systems with strong electron correlation and constitutes one of the key issues in condensed matter physics. The understanding of its mechanism will therefore greatly promote the future developments of this branch of science.

During the last ten years great progress has been made in both fundamental and application-oriented research. Expanding knowledge of the physical properties in the superconducting as well as the normal state in preparing the way to an understanding of the underlying mechanisms. The accumulated experience in materials processing enables technical applications. All these aspects of high-Tc superconductivity and recent work on "traditional" superconductors have been exposed at the Beijing conference.

The present volume is a separate edition of part I of the extensive Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity - High Temperature Superconductors. It contains the plenary, tutorial and invited papers, and gives a comprehensive account of the state-of-the-art as of March 1997.

Heng Wu is currently an Assistant Professor in AAU Energy at Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2015 to 2017, he was an Electrical Engineer with NR Electric Co., Ltd, Nanjing, China. He is the Chair of IEEE Task Force on Frequency-domain Modeling and Dynamic Analysis of HVDC and FACTS, the subgroup leader of the Joint Cigre working group B4/C4.93, a member of the GB grid forming best practice expert group formed by national grid ESO, UK, a member of the technical committee (TC) of European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE), a member of Cigre working group B4.85, and a Steering Committee Member of Cigre next generation network (NGN), Denmark. Dr. Wu has published around 20 IEEE Transaction papers with more than 2300 citations in total, including 3 ESI highly cited papers. He has been identified as one of the world’s top 2% of scientists by Stanford University since 2019.