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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7879763 | Superconducting article and method of making A superconducting article is provided that includes a substrate, wherein the substrate is untextured and comprises a nickel-based alloy containing primarily nickel and not less than about 20 wt % of an alloying element, and wherein the substrate is essentially free ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7372261 | Printed circuit board integrated with a two-axis fluxgate sensor and method for manufacturing the same A printed circuit board integrated with a two-axis fluxgate sensor includes a first soft magnetic core formed lengthwise in a first axial direction, a first excitation coil formed of a metal film and wound around the first soft magnetic core, a first pick-up coil fo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7312974 | Electrostatic chuck The electrostatic chuck includes: a conductive base formed of metal or both metal and ceramics, serving as a chucking electrode; and an insulating film formed on one principal plane of the conductive base, the top face of the insulating film serving as a placing sur... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312182 | Rare earth metal compounds for use in high critical temperature thin film super-conductors Rare earth metal containing compounds of the formula Sr2LuSbO6 and Sr2LaSbO6 have been prepared as high critical temperature thin film superconductor structures, and can be used in other ferroelectrics, pyroelectrics, piez... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310862 | Method for manufacturing a piezoelectric device A method is provided for effectively manufacturing a piezoelectric device equipped with a piezoelectric film with a crystal orientation that is aligned in a desired direction. An interlayer which partially has a layer formed by an ion beam assisted laser ablation me... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7258927 | High rate buffer layer for IBAD MgO coated conductors Articles are provided including a base substrate having a layer of an oriented material thereon, and, a layer of hafnium oxide upon the layer of an oriented material. The layer of hafnium oxide can further include a secondary oxide such as cerium oxide, yttrium oxid... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7226893 | Superconductive articles having density characteristics A superconductive article is disclosed, having a substrate a buffer layer overlying the substrate, and a superconductive layer overlying the buffer layer. According to embodiments, the article may have low density characteristics, associated with the article as a wh... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7205063 | Lanthanum gallate-based sintered body, manufacturing method thereof, and solid oxide fuel cell using the same as solid electrolyte A lanthanum gallate-based sintered body comprises a base material formed of lanthanum gallate-based oxide, and grains having a K2NiF4 structure and/or grains having a layered perovskite structure are dispersed into the base material. Consequent... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7129196 | Buffer layer for thin film structures A composite structure including a base substrate and a layer of a mixture of strontium titanate and strontium ruthenate is provided. A superconducting article can include a composite structure including an outermost layer of magnesium oxide, a buffer layer of stront... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7071149 | Method of producing biaxially textured buffer layers and related articles, devices and systems A superconductor article includes a substrate and a first buffer film disposed on the substrate. The first buffer film includes a polycrystalline material. An IBAD (ion-beam assisted deposition) second buffer film is disposed on the first buffer film, the second buf... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7029724 | Composition and method for forming doped A-site deficient thin-film manganate layers on a substrate A method of forming an A site deficient thin film manganate material on a substrate from corresponding precursor(s), comprising liquid delivery and flash vaporization thereof to yield a precursor vapor, and transporting the precursor vapor to a chemical vapor deposi... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6965137 | Multi-layer conductive memory device A multilayered conductive memory device capable of storing information individually or as part of an array of memory devices is provided. Boundary control issues at the interface between layers of the device due to the use of incompatible materials can be avoided by... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6933065 | High temperature superconducting thick films An article including a substrate, a layer of an inert oxide material upon the surface of the substrate, (generally the inert oxide material layer has a smooth surface, i.e., a RMS roughness of less than about 2 nm), a layer of an amorphous oxide or oxynitride materi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6921741 | Substrate structure for growth of highly oriented and/or epitaxial layers thereon A composite substrate structure including a substrate, a layer of a crystalline metal oxide or crystalline metal oxynitride material upon the substrate, a layer of an oriented cubic oxide material having a rock-salt-like structure upon the crystalline metal oxide or... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6911664 | Extra-substrate control system The present invention generally involves an extra-substrate control system comprising a first substrate, attached to which is at least one superconducting structure, and a second substrate, connected to which is at least one element of circuitry, wherein the superco... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6764770 | Buffer layers and articles for electronic devices Materials for depositing buffer layers on biaxially textured and untextured metallic and metal oxide substrates for use in the manufacture of superconducting and other electronic articles comprise RMnO3, R1−xAxMnO3, and ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6730410 | Surface control alloy substrates and methods of manufacture therefor Methods and articles for controlling the surface of an alloy substrate for deposition of an epitaxial layer. The invention includes the use of an intermediate layer to stabilize the substrate surface against oxidation for subsequent deposition of an epitaxial layer.... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6610633 | Superconductor device A lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO3) substrate on which thin films of layered perovskite copper oxide superconductors are formed. Lanthanum aluminate, with a pseudo-cubic perovskite crystal structure, has a crystal structure and lattice constant that... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6610632 | Tape-formed oxide superconductor The present invention provides a tape-form oxide superconductor having a high degree of c-axis alignment and in-plane alignment and an improved Jc value. On a tape-form metal substrate which is non-magnetic or weakly magnetic and has high strength, there ... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6591119 | Synthesis of superconducting magnesium diboride objects A process to produce magnesium diboride objects from boron objects with a similar form is presented. Boron objects are reacted with magnesium vapor at a predetermined time and temperature to form magnesium diboride objects having a morphology similar to t... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6531426 | Neodymium gallate surface barrier for melt-processed YBa2Cu3Ox conductor with nickel sheath A new process for making a neodymium gallate (NGO) surface layer on the inside surface of a protective outer sheath of nickel surrounding a core of yttrium-based copper oxide (YBCO) superconductor material permits manufacture of very high performance supe... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6500568 | Biaxially textured metal substrate with palladium layer Described is an article comprising a biaxially textured metal substrate and a layer of palladium deposited on at least one major surface of the metal substrate; wherein the palladium layer has desired in-plane and out-of-plane crystallographic orientation... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6487427 | Dielectric resonator, dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer, and communications device having specific dielectric and superconductive compositions A compact dielectric resonator of high Qu, in which an electrode formed of an oxide superconducting material is provided on a surface of the dielectric so as to serve as an electrode. A dielectric filter, dielectric duplexer and a communications device, i... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6455166 | Metallic substrates for high temperature superconductors A biaxially textured face-centered cubic metal article having grain boundaries with misorientation angles greater than about 8° limited to less than about 1%. A laminate article is also disclosed having a metal substrate first rolled to at least about 95... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6410487 | Large area bulk superconductors A bulk superconductor having a thickness of not less than about 100 microns is carried by a polycrystalline textured substrate having misorientation angles at the surface thereof not greater than about 15°; the bulk superconductor may have a thickness of... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6337149 | Superconductor coplanar waveguide A lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO3) substrate on which thin films of layered perovskite copper oxide superconductors are formed. Lanthanum aluminate, with a pseudo-cubic perovskite crystal structure, has a crystal structure and lattice constant that... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6328942 | A4MeSb3O12 compounds for growth of epitaxial HTSC/perovskite oxide films for use in HTSC/perovskite oxide devices and microwave device structures Compounds of the general formula A4 MeSb3 O12 wherein A is either barium (Ba) or strontium (Sr) and Me is an alkali metal ion selected from the group consisting of lithium (Li), sodium (Na) and potassium (K) have been prep... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6324413 | Superconductor Josephson junction A lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO3) substrate on which thin films of layered perovskite copper oxide superconductors are formed. Lanthanum aluminate, with a pseudo-cubic perovskite crystal structure, has a crystal structure and lattice constant that... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6309767 | Superconductor structure with glass substrate and high-temperature superconductor deposited thereon, current limiter device having the superconductor structure and process for producing the structure A superconductor structure inclludes a substrate made from a temperature-resistant glass material, a buffer layer which has been deposited on the substrate, and a layer of a metal oxide high Tc superconductor material that has been deposited th... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6297200 | High-frequency substrate material for thin-film layered perovskite superconductors A lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO3) substrate on which thin films of layered perovskite copper oxide superconductors are formed. Lanthanum aluminate, with a pseudo-cubic perovskite crystal structure, has a crystal structure and lattice constant that... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6251834 | Substrate materials The invention provides an improved substrate for growing layers of oxide superconductor materials for use in high current engineering applications. The invention also provides superconducting laminates based on the inventive substrates, and processes for ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6251530 | Thin-film of a high-temperature superconductor compound and method A thin-film of a high temperature superconducting compound having the formula M1-x CuO2-y, where M is Ca, Sr, or Ba, or combinations thereof, x is 0.05 to 0.3, and x>y. The thin film has a Tc (zero resistivity) of about 40... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6246007 | Oxide superconductive wire and process for manufacturing the same A clad superconductive wire or tape of an oxide superconductive material and a silver-copper alloy base containing 0.05-90 atomic % copper or a silver alloy. The silver-copper alloy base contains one or more elements selected from the group of Zr, Hf, Al,... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6238774 | Protection of oxide superconductor A high temperature oxide superconductor is efficiently protected from the affects of water and acids by forming a passivation layer of a fluoride. The fluoride layer comprises a fluoride composed of one or more elements composing the oxide superconductor ... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6156706 | Layer structure with an epitaxial, non-c-axis oriented HTSC thin film The invention relates to a layered structure with at least one epitaxial, non-c-axis oriented high Tc superconductor (HTSC) thin film with an approximately tetragonal structure, in which the thin film having an orientation (-1,0,1) is formed on a cubic or... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6140275 | Ceramic substrate for bi-cuprate superconductors and a process for preparing the same A novel ceramic substrate useful for the preparation of superconductors, said substrate having the formula Ba2 DyMO5.5 where M represents at least one of the metals Zr, Sn and Hf and a process for the preparation of said ceramic subs... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6121206 | Process for preparing YBCO superconducting films on a ceramic substrate A novel ceramic substrate useful for the preparation of superconducting films, said substrate having the formula REBa2 MO6 where RE represents rare earth metals--Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and M represents met... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6117824 | Superconductor microstrip transmission line A lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO3) substrate on which thin films of layered perovskite copper oxide superconductors are formed. Lanthanum aluminate, with a pseudo-cubic perovskite crystal structure, has a crystal structure and lattice constant that... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6084246 | A4 MeSb3 O12 substrates and dielectric/buffer layers for growth of epitaxial HTSC/perovskite oxide films for use in HTSC/perovskite oxide devices and microwave device structures Compounds of the general formula A4 MeSb3 O12 wherein A is either barium (Ba) or strontium (Sr) and Me is an alkali metal ion selected from the group consisting of lithium (Li), sodium (Na) and potassium (K) have been prep... | 07/04/2000 |
| 6074990 | Superconducting garnet thin film system A superconducting garnet thin film system (10) is provided for high frequency microwave applications where a single crystal high temperature superconducting (HTSC) layer (18) is integrated with a garnet substrate (12). A first perovskite compound buffer l... | 06/13/2000 |
