**Meet the editor**

Alexander M. Gabovich, borne in 1946, Kiev, Ukraine. Graduated cum laude from the Physical Department of Kiev State University in 1969. Majored in theoretical physics, with emphasis on the nuclear physics. Received the PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Physics of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Kiev) in 1976. Received the Doctor's degree in

Physics and Mathematics from the Institute of Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences in 1990 (Kharkov). Leading Research Associate of Crystal Physics Department, Institute of Physics of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (Kiev). Research interests: Superconductivity, phase transitions, electronic properties of surfaces, biophysics, history of sciences, poetry. More than 300 scientific and tutorial publications.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Field-Induced Superconductors:** 

L.M.S. Alves and Z. Fisk

Chapter 4 **Improvement of Critical Current Density** 

Chapter 6 **Development and Present Status of Organic Superconductors 105**  Gunzi Saito and Yukihiro Yoshida

Chapter 7 **Pseudogap and Local Pairs** 

Andrei L. Solovjov

Mitsuru Izumi and Jacques Noudem

**in High-***Tc* **Superconductors 137** 

Laureline Porcar, Patricia de Rango, Daniel Bourgault and Robert Tournier

Chapter 8 **Magnetic Texturing of High-Tc Superconductors 171** 

**NMR Studies of** λ**–(BETS)2FeCl4 3**  Guoqing Wu and W. Gilbert Clark

Chi Liang Chen and Chung-Li Dong

Chapter 2 **X-Ray Spectroscopy Studies of Iron Chalcogenides 21** 

**and Flux Trapping in Bulk High-Tc Superconductors 61** 

Chapter 5 **Superconducting Magnet Technology and Applications 83**  Qiuliang Wang, Zhipeng Ni and Chunyan Cui

Chapter 3 **Defect Structure Versus Superconductivity in MeB2 Compounds (Me = Refractory Metals) and One-Dimensional Superconductors 45**  A.J.S. Machado, S.T. Renosto, C.A.M. dos Santos,

**Section 1 Experiment 1** 
