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Title: Method for fabrication of high temperature superconductors

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1012612

A layered article of manufacture and a method of manufacturing same is disclosed. A substrate has a biaxially textured MgO crystalline layer having the c-axes thereof inclined with respect to the plane of the substrate deposited thereon. A layer of one or more of YSZ or Y.sub.2O.sub.3 and then a layer of CeO.sub.2 is deposited on the MgO. A crystalline superconductor layer with the c-axes thereof normal to the plane of the substrate is deposited on the CeO.sub.2 layer. Deposition of the MgO layer on the substrate is by the inclined substrate deposition method developed at Argonne National Laboratory. Preferably, the MgO has the c-axes thereof inclined with respect to the normal to the substrate in the range of from about 10.degree. to about 40.degree. and YBCO superconductors are used.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-Eng-38
Assignee:
UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, IL)
Patent Number(s):
7,560,291
Application Number:
11/329,937
OSTI ID:
1012612
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

Pulsed laser deposition of YBCO films on ISD MgO buffered metal tapes journal February 2003
High critical current density of YBCO coated conductors fabricated by inclined substrate deposition journal April 2004
Development of coated conductors by inclined substrate deposition journal October 2003
Inclined-substrate deposition of biaxially textured magnesium oxide thin films for YBCO coated conductors journal February 2002