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The present book is a try to fill a gap in the existing scientific literature in a field important for industrial and technological approaches, as well as for basic and applied research. It is offered to all scientists, students and engineers fabricating YBCO thin films in research, technology, and in other fields. The spectrum of working areas covers spheres of activity such as solid-state physics, condensed-matter physics, applied physics, plasma physics, material science as well as special applications in such fields as microelectronics, fabrication techniques, radioelectronics, communication, and so on.

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Doctor Serhiy Pysarenko received his M.Sc. degree from Kiev State University, Kiev, Ukraine in 1993. and his Ph.D. from Wollongong University, Wollongong, Australia in 2010. He was a Research Fellow at Wollongong University, from 2008 to 2010. He has published more than 10 papers in leading journals.

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