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Title: Method for fabricating high aspect ratio structures in perovskite material

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OSTI ID:1174550

A method of fabricating high aspect ratio ceramic structures in which a selected portion of perovskite or perovskite-like crystalline material is exposed to a high energy ion beam for a time sufficient to cause the crystalline material contacted by the ion beam to have substantially parallel columnar defects. Then selected portions of the material having substantially parallel columnar defects are etched leaving material with and without substantially parallel columnar defects in a predetermined shape having high aspect ratios of not less than 2 to 1. Etching is accomplished by optical or PMMA lithography. There is also disclosed a structure of a ceramic which is superconducting at a temperature in the range of from about 10.degree. K. to about 90.degree. K. with substantially parallel columnar defects in which the smallest lateral dimension of the structure is less than about 5 microns, and the thickness of the structure is greater than 2 times the smallest lateral dimension of the structure.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-ENG-38
Assignee:
University Of Chicago
Patent Number(s):
6,638,895
Application Number:
09/696,050
OSTI ID:
1174550
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (5)

Little-Parks oscillations of T c in patterned microstructures of the oxide superconductor YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 : Experimental limits on fractional-statistics-particle theories journal February 1990
Microlithography of high-temperature superconducting films: laser ablation vs. wet etching journal March 1989
A novel multilayer circuit process using YBa 2 Cu 3 O x /SrTiO 3 thin films patterned by wet etching and ion milling journal October 1996
Simultaneous Observation of Columnar Defects and Magnetic Flux Lines in High-Temperature Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Superconductors journal September 1994
Improved aqueous etchant for high T c superconductor materials journal April 1992

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