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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182862 | Ion beam-assisted high-temperature superconductor (HTS) deposition for thick film tape An ion source impinging on the surface of the substrate to be coated is used to enhance a MOCVD, PVD or other process for the preparation of superconducting materials. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8124171 | Method of and apparatus for manufacturing tape-formed oxide superconductor A method of manufacturing a tape-formed oxide superconductor, in which a tape-formed wire material (6 in FIG. 1) is extended between a pair of reels (5a and 5b). Besides, a reactive gas is supplied form the gas supply ports ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124170 | Method for forming superconductor material on a tape substrate A method for forming a superconducting wire with a tape substrate comprises dispensing the tape substrate, providing at least one reactor chamber to form at least one buffer material on the tape substrate based on determining at least one of a type of tape substrate... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119187 | Chemical vapor deposition process using novel precursors In a chemical vapor deposition process simple precursors such as a rare earth nitrate or acetate, Ba-nitrate or acetate and Cu-nitrate or acetate are dissolved in an appropriate solvent, preferably water, to form a solution, nebulized into a fine mist and applied to... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8048475 | Method of fabricating superconducting wire and superconducting apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a method of fabricating a superconducting wire that can reduce the fabrication cost and increase the mechanical strength of the superconducting wire, and a superconducting apparatus including a superconducting wire ob... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7976893 | Superconductivity in boron-doped diamond thin film A heavily boron-doped diamond thin film having superconductivity is deposited by chemical vapor deposition using gas mixture of at least carbon compound and boron compound, including hydrogen. An advantage of the diamond thin film deposited by the chemical vapor dep... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7939126 | Precursor solutions and methods of using same Superconductor precursor solutions are disclosed. The precursor solutions contain, for example, a salt of a rare earth metal, a salt of an alkaline earth metal and a salt of a transition metal. The precursor solutions can optionally include a Lewis base. The precurs... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7910155 | Method for manufacturing high temperature superconducting conductor A method for manufacturing a high-temperature superconducting conductor includes translating an elongated substrate through a reactor. Further, a high temperature superconducting layer is formed on the substrate translating through the reactor by deposition of a rea... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7871663 | Minute doping for YBCO flux pinning A method for enhancing the flux pinning of a YBCO superconductor by substituting minute quantities of rare earth elements (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu) or other deleterious elements (Sc, etc.) for Y in YBCO thin films is described. The... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7838061 | Method and apparatus for fabricating high temperature superconducting film through auxiliary cluster beam spraying, and high temperature superconducting film fabricated using the method Disclosed herein is a method of fabricating a high temperature superconducting film in a vacuum chamber through auxiliary cluster beam spraying using an evaporation method, wherein a high temperature superconducting material is deposited on a substrate in a vapor st... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7749557 | Method of manufacturing superconducting wire A method of manufacturing a superconducting wire includes the step of drawing a wire formed by coating raw material powder for a superconductor with a metal or a wire with a multifilamentary structure, the step of sealing an end portion of a clad wire or a multifila... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7727579 | Process for the production of highly-textured, band-shaped, high-temperature superconductors The formation of band-shaped HTSL on a metal substrate is disclosed. The HTSL includes at least one buffer layer comprising zirconates and/or rare-earth oxides. The HTSL layer is formed on the buffer layer. The buffer layer has a texturing that in the case of a RHEE... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7722918 | Process for the preparation of high temperature superconducting bulk current leads with improved properties and superconducting bulk current leads made thereby The present invention provides a process for the preparation of high temperature superconducting (HTS) bulk current leads capable of supplying a continuous current of more than 200 A at 77 K, at least for 2 to 4 hours without any substantial heat load to cryogen fre... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7582328 | Dropwise deposition of a patterned oxide superconductor An oxide superconductor article having an oxide superconductor layer of a predetermined pattern is prepared by continuously advancing a wire having a textured surface into a deposition zone, dispensing droplets of a precursor solution to an oxide superconductor from... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7531205 | High throughput ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) A method of continuously coating at least one substrate with a buffer layer as a support for a ceramic superconducting material is disclosed. The method includes loading the at least one substrate onto a respective feed spool and feeding the at least one substrate t... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7521082 | Coated high temperature superconducting tapes, articles, and processes for forming same A superconducting article is disclosed, including a substrate and a chemical vapor deposited thin film superconducting layer overlying the substrate, the superconducting layer having a critical current not less than about 100 A/cm width at 77K and self field. The su... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7501145 | High throughput continuous pulsed laser deposition process A method includes feeding an uncoated substrate from a payout spool into a multi-chambered vacuum apparatus. The vacuum apparatus includes a plurality of deposition chambers defining an extended deposition zone, a multi-zone substrate heater located within the exten... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7494688 | Methods for making doped magnesium diboride powders A method for making a doped magnesium diboride powder is provided. The method includes coating a polymeric precursor on at least one of a plurality of particles of a first phase, where the first phase includes a magnesium diboride powder, where the polymeric precurs... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7445808 | Method of forming a superconducting article A superconducting article and a method of making a superconducting article is described. The method of forming a superconducting article includes providing a substrate, forming a buffer layer to overlie the substrate, the buffer layer including a first buffer film d... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7439208 | Growth of in-situ thin films by reactive evaporation A method of forming MgB2 films in-situ on a substrate includes the steps of (a) depositing boron onto a surface of the substrate in a deposition zone; (b) moving the substrate into a reaction zone containing pressurized, gaseous magnesium; (c) moving the ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7387811 | Method for manufacturing high temperature superconducting conductors using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) A CVD apparatus capable of substantially simultaneously processing multiple portions of at least one substrate or substantially simultaneously processing portions of multiple substrates or substantially simultaneously processing multiple portions of at least one sub... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7364684 | Method of making an encapsulated microelectronic package having fluid carrying encapsulant channels A method of making a fluid cooled microelectronic package in which fluid is circulated through the package in fluid-carrying channels defined at least in part by voids in an encapsulant that surrounds the package components. Preferably, the encapsulant channels are ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361377 | Fluorinated precursors of superconducting ceramics, and methods of making the same This invention provides a method of making a fluorinated precursor of a superconducting ceramic. The method comprises providing a solution comprising a rare earth salt, an alkaline earth metal salt and a copper salt; spraying the solution onto a substrate to provide... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7361627 | Method of preparing oxide superconducting film The present invention relates to a method of preparing an oxide superconducting film, the method includes reacting a metal acetate containing metal M selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, neodymium and samarium with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less t... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7338683 | Superconductor fabrication processes A method of forming a superconductive device is provided, including providing a substrate having a dimension ratio of not less than about 102, depositing a buffer film to overlie the substrate by ion beam assisted deposition utilizing and ion beam, monito... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338921 | MgB2 superconductor and method for preparation thereof An electrode is steeped in a solution of Mg and B and a negative voltage is applied to the electrode so as to precipitate superconductive MgB2 on the electrode. Superconductive MgB2 is easily manufactured in various forms and at low costs witho... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7326434 | Precursor solutions and methods of using same Superconductor precursor solutions are disclosed. The precursor solutions contain, for example, a salt of a rare earth metal, a salt of an alkaline earth metal and a salt of a transition metal. The precursor solutions can optionally include a Lewis base. The precurs... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7309511 | Method of manufacturing oxide superconductor thick film The present invention provides an oxide superconductor thick film which is formed on a substrate or a board and has a high Jc and Ic and a method for manufacturing the same. Predetermined amounts of materials containing elements of Bi, Pb, Sr, Ca and Cu are weighed,... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7307046 | Composition for thick oxide superconductor film and method of producing oxide superconductor in form of thick film tape using the same To provide a composition for a thick oxide superconducting film containing a copper salt of a branched saturated aliphatic carboxylic acid having 6 or more carbon atoms and/or a copper salt of an alicyclic carboxylic acid having 6 or more carbon atoms, which is suit... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7294606 | Substrate and method for the formation of continuous magnesium diboride and doped magnesium diboride wire A chemically doped boron coating is applied by chemical vapor deposition to a silicon carbide fiber and the coated fiber then is exposed to magnesium vapor to convert the doped boron to doped magnesium diboride and a resultant superconductor. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7274019 | Method for detection and imaging over a broad spectral range A method of controlling the coordinate sensitivity in a superconducting microbolometer employs localized light, heating or magnetic field effects to form normal or mixed state regions on a superconducting film and to control the spatial location. Electron beam litho... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7261776 | Deposition of buffer layers on textured metal surfaces A method of making a multilayer article includes depositing a first material on the surface of a metal substrate to form a seed layer of the first material, the first material being deposited under reducing conditions relative to the metal substrate, and then epitax... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7247340 | Method of making a superconducting conductor A method of forming a superconducting conductor is disclosed. The method provides translating a substrate tape through a deposition chamber and along a helical path, where the helical path has multiple windings of the substrate tape and each winding of the substrate... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7237422 | Method of drawing a composite wire An apparatus and method is disclosed for drawing continuous metallic wire having a first diameter to a metallic fiber having a reduced second diameter. A feed mechanism moves the wire at a first linear velocity. A laser beam heats a region of the wire to an elevated... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7226894 | Superconducting wire, method of manufacture thereof and the articles derived therefrom Disclosed herein is method for making a wire comprising contacting a first end of a first superconducting wire with a second end of a second superconducting wire, wherein the superconducting wire comprises a superconducting filament having a superconducting composit... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7220598 | Method of making ferroelectric thin film having a randomly oriented layer and spherical crystal conductor structure A method of making a ferroelectric thin film includes the step of forming a ferroelectric thin film with a randomly oriented layered structure on a surface of a conductor layer. At least the surface of the conductor layer has a spherical crystal structure. ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7189425 | Method of manufacturing a superconducting magnesium diboride thin film A superconducting magnesium diboride (MgB2) thin film having c-axial orientation and a method and apparatus for fabricating the same are provided. The fabrication method includes forming a boron thin film on a substrate and thermally processing the substr... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7175876 | Patterned coating method employing polymeric coatings Patterned articles can be prepared by applying a release polymer to a substrate in a desired pattern, applying a substrate-adherent polymer over the pattern and substrate, and mechanically removing the substrate-adherent polymer from the pattern without requiring so... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175735 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing coated conductor Disclosed herein is a technique for manufacturing a superconducting tape grown epitaxially by a replication process. According to the technique, a long superconducting tape can be manufactured using a loop-shaped base. Further disclosed is a method for manufacturing... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7090889 | Boride thin films on silicon Boride thin films of conducting and superconducting materials are formed on silicon by a process which combines physical vapor deposition with chemical vapor deposition. Embodiments include forming boride films, such as magnesium diboride, on silicon substrates by p... | 08/15/2006 |
