Tabella dei contenuti
Contents
Acknowledgement
Editorial Note
List of Figures
List of Tables
▲Part I: High Temperature Superconductors and Me
Prologue
Chapter 1: I Changed my Career Twice
First foray into superconducting materials
Returning to the research ‘National Team’
Building a thin film lab
A surprise invitation
Chapter 2: My Promise at the Starting Line
Starting from scratch
First victory
No pain no gain
Chapter 3: Days of Challenging 97K
Returning to Houston
Proving the 35K oxide superconductor
Superconducting transition at 52.5K under pressure
Materials Research Society Annual Meeting in Boston
Optimizing process to make superconductors
‘Element substitution’
Mystery of yttrium
A news conference
Identifying the structure of the new high temperature superconductor
Cranking on all cylinders: discovering a series of rare earth high Tc superconductors
American Physical Society (APS) Annual Meeting
Notes
Chapter 4: New Frontiers
The emergence of new superconductor series
Finding the synthesis mechanism for Hg-base superconductors
The first defect-free C60 single crystal
Applications of high temperature superconductors
Large dimension bulk and rod superconductors
Fabrication of mercury superconductor tape
Fabrication of bismuth superconducting tape
Notes
Chapter 5 Inside and Outside the Media Halo
‘Changing a bird shotgun for a cannon’
‘Heroes behind the scenes’
The ‘Little United Nations’ of the Superconductivity Center
‘The fame of a general is built upon the ashes of millions of dead soldiers’
Chapter 6 ‘Our’ Patent
He applied for a patent for ‘Us’
An eighteen-year-old mystery
Requesting internal mediation
Ripple effects？
Lawyer’s evidence
Nine years of difficult road of ‘rights protection’
Who is the co-inventor of the patent?
Thoughts on the ‘Time limitations of legal action’
Who’s to judge?
Photos
▲Part 2: A Life on Two Sides of the Ocean
Prologue
Chapter 1: Growing up and Schooling
My father and mother
A tomboy hiding from the Japanese
A young girl’s dreams of becoming a writer
From a young Miss to a country girl
Toward becoming a STEM girl
University life
The great calamity of the Cultural Revolution
Notes
Chapter 2: My Forty-Year American Journey
Flying to the new continent
My Chinese colleagues from the Physics Department of UH
The helping hands of overseas Chinese
American friends
The shadow of the FBI
Chapter 3: Different Worlds
The rigor of the Germans
The tolerance and taste of the French
The pragmatism of the Japanese
Italy’s ‘famous brand’
Chapter 4: The Wide-Open World Outside of the Lab
Serving the community
Giving back to my Alma Mater
Starting an offshore wind power plant
Promoting the application of high-temperature superconductors
Singing, drawing, and fundraising for the scientific research innovation award
