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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178472 | Superconducting device and method of manufacturing the same The present invention provides a superconducting device including a substrate, a first superconducting pattern formed on the substrate, an insulating pattern formed on the first superconducting pattern, and a second superconducting pattern formed at the uppermost le... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7365271 | Superconducting articles, and methods for forming and using same A superconducting tape includes a substrate, a buffer layer overlying the substrate, a superconductor layer overlying the buffer layer, and an electroplated stabilizer layer overlying the superconductor layer. The tape provides for low AC losses, and is particularly... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7335283 | Production method for composite oxide thin film and device therefor and composite oxide film produced thereby A method and an apparatus which permits making a composite oxide thin film excellent in crystallinity easily and at a low temperature, with the capability of controlling the basic unit cell structure as desired, and without the need for a post annealing, as well as ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330744 | Metal salt resistive layer on an superconducting element The invention relates to a process for applying a resistive layer on an oxide superconducting element for electrically decoupling superconducting filaments contained in the element, an oxide superconducting element having a resistive layer and use thereof, in partic... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7295085 | Process for making high temperature superconductor devices each having a line oriented in a spiral fashion A process for producing high temperature superconductor (HTS) mini-filters or coils in which the high temperature superconductor films are deposited on a layer of CeO2 on a substrate results in higher yields of mini-filters or coils. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286029 | Passive devices formed in grooves on a substrate and a method of manufacture A method for constructing passive devices on a substrate and a device is provided that is fabricated in accordance with the a method. The method includes the steps of: forming a plurality of grooves on a surface of the substrate by using an anisotropic etching proce... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7221237 | Frequency tunable device A frequency tunable device includes a substrate, and a capacitor structure supported by the substrate and including a ferroelectric film and first and second electrodes. The ferroelectric film has two opposite sides, and is made from a ferroelectric material having ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7192888 | Low selectivity deposition methods A deposition method includes forming a nucleation layer over a substrate, forming a layer of a first substance at least one monolayer thick chemisorbed on the nucleation layer, and forming a layer of a second substance at least one monolayer thick chemisorbed on the... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7091515 | High-temperature superconducting device and manufacturing method thereof At least two ramp-edge-structure Josephson junctions having different critical current densities to one another are provided on a substrate. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7060508 | Self-aligned junction passivation for superconductor integrated circuit A superconductor integrated circuit (1) includes an anodization ring (35) disposed around a perimeter of a tunnel junction region (27) for preventing a short-circuit between an outside contact (41) and the base electrode layer (18)... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7015109 | Interdigital capacitor and method for adjusting the same An interdigital capacitor includes a semiconductor substrate, and a pair of comb-like electrodes formed on the semiconductor substrate. At least one of the pair of comb-like electrodes includes a cutting target portion. ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7015499 | Permanent readout superconducting qubit A solid-state quantum computing structure includes a d-wave superconductor in sets of islands that clean Josephson junctions separate from a first superconducting bank. The d-wave superconductor causes the ground state for the supercurrent at each junction to be dou... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6999806 | High temperature superconducting josephson junctin, superconducting electronic device provided with the former and method of manufacturing high temperature superconducting josephson junction A Josephson junction having a barrier layer sandwiched by two superconductors wherein the superconductors include one or more elements selected from the group of Y, La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu, one or more elements selected from the group of Ba, Sr... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6926921 | Imprint lithography for superconductor devices One aspect of this disclosure relates to a method of building a superconductor device on a substrate, comprising depositing an imprint layer on at least a portion of the substrate. The imprint layer is imprinted to provide an imprinted portion of the imprint layer a... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6908771 | Method for fabricating dc SQUID using high-Tc superconducting intrinsic Josephson junctions A DC superconducting interference device (SQUID) utilizes intrinsic Josephson tunnel junctions formed naturally in stacks of high-Tc superconducting single crystals, where the double-side cleaving technique is used to define a ring-shaped high-Tc superconducting str... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6905887 | High sensitivity, directional dc-SQUID magnetometer A solid state dc-SQUID includes a superconducting loop containing a plurality of Josephson junctions, wherein an intrinsic phase shift is accumulated through the loop. In an embodiment of the invention, the current-phase response of the dc-SQUID sits in a linear reg... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6839578 | Method of forming high temperature superconducting Josephson junction A method of forming a novel high temperature superconducting Josephson junction which is capable of achieving a formation of a Josephson junction having high characteristics conveniently and quickly without necessitating costly micromachining facilities. Two high te... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6734454 | Internally shunted Josephson junction device A Josephson junction has inherent resistance which effectively shunts the junction and thereby obviates a separate shunt resistor and thus reduces surface area in an integrated circuit including a plurality of Josephson junctions. The Josephson junction comprises a ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6682621 | Method of forming high temperature superconducting josephson junction A method of forming a novel high temperature superconducting Josephson junction which is capable of achieving a formation of a Josephson junction having high characteristic conveniently and quickly without necessitating costly micromachining facilities. T... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6605225 | Method and apparatus for fabricating three dimensional element from anisotropic material A three-dimensional element is fabricated from a high-temperature superconductor. The method and apparatus can fabricate, for example, a single-electron tunnel device or an intrinsic Josephson device which utilize the layer structure peculiar to the high-... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6423473 | Fabrication method of high temperature superconducting step-edge Josephson junction A method for fabricating a high temperature superconducting step-edge Josephson junction includes the steps of: (i) preparing a step-edge on an SrTiO3 (STO) substrate; (ii) depositing a YBa2 Cu3 O7-x (YBCO) thin... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6388268 | Semiconducting YBCO device and superconducting YBCO device locally converted by AFM tip and manufacturing methods therefor A semiconducting yttrium-barium-copper-oxygen(YBCO) device which locally converts a semiconducting YBCO film to a nonconducting YBCO film by a conductive atomic force microscope (AFM), a superconducting YBCO device which locally converts a superconducting... | 05/14/2002 |
| 6242387 | High temperature superconductor/insulator composite thin films with Josephson coupled grains High temperature superconductor composite thin film devices with easily moved Josephson vortices are described having high Tc and good magnetic vortex properties. A preferred composite material was YBCO/CeO2 thin film on a MgO substr... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6207067 | Method for fabricating oxide superconducting device A method for fabricating an oxide superconducting device includes the steps of: forming a V-shaped groove on a substrate by a converging ion beam and forming a barrier with reduced superconductivity on the oxide superconducting thin-film on the groove to ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6188919 | Using ion implantation to create normal layers in superconducting-normal-superconducting Josephson junctions A SNS Josephson junction (10) is provided for use in a superconducting integrated circuit. The SNS junction (10) includes a first high temperature superconducting (HTS) layer (14) deposited and patterned on a substrate (18), such that the first HTS layer ... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6066600 | Method of making high-Tc SSNS and SNS Josephson junction A high temperature superconductor junction and a method of forming the junction are disclosed. The junction 40 comprises a first high-Tc superconductive layer (first base electrode layer) 46 on a substrate 42 and a dielectric layer 48 on the fi... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6004907 | Method of fabricating a superconducting junction using cubic YBa2 Cu3 O x thin film as a barrier layer The present invention forms a superconducting junction using a cubic YBa2 Cu3 Ox thin film as a barrier layer. The present invention forms a first YBCO superconducting thin film, a SrTiO3 insulating layer thin film on the ... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5981443 | Method of manufacturing a high temperature superconducting Josephson device A bicrystal substrate is formed by joining end faces of a first single crystal substrate and a second single crystal substrate, the end faces having different crystal orientations. A high critical temperature superconducting thin film is then epitaxially ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5962866 | Microbridge superconductor device utilizing stepped junctions A superconductor device has a substrate with an inclined surface that divides the substrate surface into a lower planar substrate surface and an upper planar substrate surface. A lower layer of an anisotropic superconductor material is epitaxially deposit... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5945383 | Method producing an SNS superconducting junction with weak link barrier A method of producing a high temperature superconductor Josephson element and an improved SNS weak link barrier element is provided. A YBaCuO superconducting electrode film is deposited on a substrate at a temperature of approximately 800° C. A weak link... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5916848 | Self-aligned thin barrier high temperature superconductor edge junction An edge junction 10 with reduced parasitic inductance. The edge junction 10 has a laminar structure 22 including: a substrate 14; a first superconductive layer 12 deposited on a substrate 14; a first dielectric layer 16 deposited on the first superconduct... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5885937 | Superconducting tunnel junction element and superconducting device This invention provides a superconducting tunnel junction element showing satisfactory Josephson effect. The element includes a Bi-based layered compound such as Bi2 Sr2 (Ca0.6 Y0.4)Cu2 O8, ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5883051 | High Tc superconducting Josephson junction element A superconducting Josephson junction element including a first, a-axis oriented, superconductive metal oxide crystal grain having a first area of a {001} plane, and a second, c-axis oriented, superconductive metal oxide crystal grain having a second area ... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5880069 | Process of making high Tc Josephson junction device A desired pattern is formed on a non-superconducting oxide film after the non-superconducting oxide film has been formed on a magnesia substrate. A superconducting oxide film is formed over the exposed parts of the substrate and the non-superconducting ox... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5877122 | Josephson element having a NdBa2 Cu3 O7-y superconductor thin-film wiring pattern An oxide superconductor element, produced by forming a damaged region on a substrate surface by the Ga+ focusing ion beam method and then depositing an oxide superconductor thin-film over it, is characterized in that a NdBa2 Cu... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5872368 | Method of controlling a super conductor The order parameter of a superconductor is reduced by injecting spin-polarized carriers into the superconductor. The reduction in the order parameter is used to modulate the critical current of the superconductor. In a typical embodiment, a current is cau... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5856204 | Tunnel-type Josephson element and method for manufacturing the same A plurality of single crystal grains made of Bi2 Sr2 Ca1 Cu2 O8 which are heat treated at a temperature that is equal to or higher than the crystallization temperature of an oxide high-temperature sup... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5821200 | Lattice matching device and method for fabricating the same A lattice matching device includes a substrate having thereon monocrystal regions having different lattice mismatches with respect to a LnBa2 Cu3 Ox superconductor. A superconducting thin film is formed on the substrate, w... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5811375 | Superconducting multilayer interconnection formed of oxide superconductor material and method for manufacturing the same A superconducting multilayer interconnection comprises a substrate having a principal surface, a first superconducting current path of a c-axis orientated oxide superconductor thin film formed on the principal surface of the substrate, an insulating layer... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5795849 | Bulk ceramic superconductor structures A method for producing a superconductor assembly includes preparing a first bulk ceramic superconductor having a first essentially random pattern of superconductor domains of a copper-oxide ceramic superconductor and non-superconductor domains at a critic... | 08/18/1998 |
