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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6524643 | Method for preparing layered structure including oxide superconductor thin film The invention provides a method for preparing a layered structure comprising a lower thin film composed of an oxide superconductor and an upper thin film composed of a material different from the oxide superconductor on a substrate. The lower thin film is... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6265353 | Device and method for producing a multilayered material In a method for producing laminate, a buffer layer is applied to a substrate, with the buffer layer material being evaporated from the buffer layer material dispensing devices at an angle 댑.noteq.0 at the normal to the substrate surface ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6218341 | Process for the preparation of a high temperature superconductor A process for preparing a superconductor which is a low anisotropy, high temperature superconductor, includes providing a target in molded form comprised of one of the superconductor or constituent elements of the superconductor, the superconductor having... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6194353 | Process for preparing superconducting thin film formed of oxide superconductor material A process for preparing an oxide superconductor thin film which has a high crystalline, clean and excellent superconductive surface on a substrate by MBE. The MBE is effected under a condition that the substrate is heated and an oxidizing gas is locally s... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6060433 | Method of making a microwave device having a polycrystalline ferrite substrate The invention provides a structure comprising a high temperature superconducting layer deposited on a ceramic polycrystalline ferrite plate suitable for making commercial microwave devices. In one embodiment, the high temperature superconductor is yttrium... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6037313 | Method and apparatus for depositing superconducting layer onto the substrate surface via off-axis laser ablation The method for forming superconducting films of complex oxide compounds in a process chamber according to the present invention includes the steps of: (a) placing a substrate near a target in a chamber so that the substrate is positioned to be generally p... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5972847 | Method for making high-critical-current-density YBa2 Cu3 O7 superconducting layers on metallic substrates A method is disclosed for fabricating YBa2 Cu3 O7 superconductor layers with the capability of carrying large superconducting currents on a metallic tape (substrate) supplied with a biaxially textured oxide buffer layer. T... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5952271 | Method for manufacturing oxide superconducting films via laser ablation followed by laser material processing The method for manufacturing superconducting elements according to the present invention includes the following steps of: (a) placing a substrate near a target in a chamber so that the substrate is positioned to face a surface of the target, wherein the t... | 09/14/1999 |
| 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 |
| 5863869 | Thin film high Tc oxide superconductors and method for making the same Superconducting transition metal oxide films are provided which exhibit very high onsets of superconductivity and superconductivity at temperatures in excess of 40° K. These films are produced by vapor deposition processes using pure metal sources for th... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5674813 | Process for preparing layered structure including oxide super conductor thin film The invention provides a method for preparing a layered structure made up of a plurality of thin films composed of different compositions, in which the method involves using a reactive co-evaporation technique to deposit a first thin film on a substrate u... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5672210 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing superconducting components via laser ablation followed by laser material processing The method for manufacturing superconducting elements according to the present invention include the following steps of: (a) placing a substrate near a target in a chamber so that the substrate is positioned to face a surface of the target, wherein the ta... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5650378 | Method of making polycrystalline thin film and superconducting oxide body The present invention relates to a polycrystalline thin film deposit acting as a substrate material composed of grains of a cubic structure in which the intergranular misorientation, defined as the orientation difference between the a-axes (or b-axes) of ... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5648321 | Process for manufacturing thin films by multi-layer deposition Described is a process for manufacturing thin films by periodically depositing (DEP) a number of block layers consisting of different base materials on a substrate (multilayer deposition), wherein the thickness of the layers (LT) is restricted to one to 2... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5629268 | Process for preparing a layered superconducting structure A process for depositing successively a plurality of thin films on a bottom superconductor layer made of oxide superconductor deposited on a substrate in a single chamber under a condition, the bottom superconductor layer is heated in ultra-high vacuum at... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5622567 | Thin film forming apparatus using laser A thin film forming apparatus using laser includes a chamber (1), a target (5) placed therein, a laser light source (10) for emitting laser beam to target (5), and a substrate holder (3). When target (5) is irradiated with laser beam (16), a plume (15) is... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5607899 | Method of forming single-crystalline thin film A thin film strongly orienting specific crystal axes is deposited on a polycrystalline or amorphous base material in accordance with laser deposition in a simpler device through a simpler process. A target is irradiated with a laser beam, for forming a th... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5585332 | Process for preparing a perovskite Bi-containing superconductor film A perovskite type superconductor film having a high content, almost a single phase, of the high Tc phase is formed by the steps of: depositing at least one first film of a first material (e.g., a composite oxide of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O system or Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O sy... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5545613 | Preparation of superconducting oxides and oxide-metal composites A method of preparing a superconducting oxide by combining the metallic elements of the oxide to form an alloy, followed by oxidation of the alloy to form the oxide. Superconducting oxide-metal composites are prepared in which a noble metal phase intimate... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5534489 | Method of fabricating oxide superconducting films by laser deposition An oxide superconducting film is formed using laser deposition of applying an excimer laser beam (1, 21) onto a target (3, 23) through a converging lens (2, 22) and depositing atoms and/or molecules scattered from the target (3, 23) on the base material (... | 07/09/1996 |
| 5447569 | MOCVD system for forming superconducting thin films A system for MOCVD fabrication of superconducting oxide thin films provides a feed tube having a narrow slot along its length with a uniform mixture of powdered precursor materials packed inside the tube. The mixture composition is such that the resulting... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5447906 | Thin film high TC oxide superconductors and vapor deposition methods for making the same Superconducting transition metal oxide films are provided which exhibit very high onsets of superconductivity and superconductivity at temperatures in excess of 40° K. These films are produced by vapor deposition processes using pure metal sources for th... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5447910 | Method of fabricating oxide superconducting films by laser deposition An oxide superconducting film is formed using laser deposition of applying an excimer laser beam (1, 21) onto a target (3, 23) through a converging lens (2, 22) and depositing atoms and/or molecules scattered from the target (3, 23) on the base material (... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5432151 | Process for ion-assisted laser deposition of biaxially textured layer on substrate A process for depositing a biaxially aligned intermediate layer over a non-single crystal substrate is disclosed which permits the subsequent deposition thereon of a biaxially oriented superconducting film. The process comprises depositing on a substrate ... | 07/11/1995 |
| 5423914 | Film depositing apparatus and process for preparing layered structure including oxide superconductor thin film The invention provides a film deposition apparatus comprising a vacuum chamber provided with a partitioning means for dividing the vacuum chamber into a first sub-chamber and a second sub-chamber, the partitioning means including an opening for introducin... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5413988 | Method for manufacturing an oxide superconductor thin film and a target for use in the method An oxide superconductor thin film of Y1&#b1; Ba2&#b1;ଲ Cu3&#b1;γ O7-δ with a smooth surface having a low density of particles being generated without decreasing superconductivity is produced by t... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5389606 | Process for producing thin films of inorganic oxides of controlled stoichiometry An in-situ process for preparing thin films which contain relatively volatile and involatile oxides is disclosed, in particular, crystalline thin films of oxides of conductors, superconductors or ferroelectric materials, wherein separate sources of the re... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5376627 | Method of preparing Tl-containing oxide superconducting thin film Provided herein is a method of efficiently preparing a thin film having a higher critical temperature as to an oxide superconducting material containing Tl. A thin film of an oxide containing Tl is formed and then heat treated at a temperature of about 85... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5372089 | Method of forming single-crystalline thin film Disclosed herein is a method of forming a single-crystalline thin film having excellent crystallinity on a base material without depending on the material for and crystallinity of the base material. In this method, a base material is provided thereon with... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5362711 | Method for producing single crystal superconducting LnA2 Cu3 O7-x films A process for forming a single crystal superconducting LnA2 Cu3 O7-x film, wherein Ln is at least one rare earth element and A is at least one alkaline earth element, is disclosed, which comprises simultaneously evaporatin... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5360785 | In-situ laser ablation method for forming oxide superconducting films In a method of preparing an oxide superconducting thin film having a composition of Y-Ba-Cu-O, for example, using laser ablation, which comprises the steps of applying a laser beam to a target containing components of an oxide superconductive material and... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5358927 | Growth of a,b-axis oriented pervoskite thin films A method, and the resulting structure, of growing a superconducting perovskite thin film of, for example YBa2 Cu3 O7-x. A buffer layer of, for example, the perovskite PrBa2 Cu3 O7-y, is gro... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5356872 | "Method of making high Tc superconducting thin films with fullerenes by evaporation" An evaporation method of producing a new high Tc superconducting material using fullerene molecules as artificial pinning sites for any magnetic flux that may enter the material.... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5350738 | Method of manufacturing an oxide superconductor film The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a high quality oxide superconductor film capable of controlling the film-forming rate and the film composition easily and forming the superconductor film safely and economically, over a wide region ... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5350453 | Device for producing thin films of mixed metal oxides from organic metal compounds on a substrate In the device for producing thin films of metal oxides from organic metal compounds on a substrate, there is a truncated pyramidal hollow body (3) in an evacuable housing (1). Disposed concentrically with respect to the axis of symmetry (16) of the hollow... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5334252 | Method of and apparatus for preparing oxide superconducting film In order to enable formation of a smooth and dense oxide superconducting film with no clear appearance of grain boundaries in a fine structure even at a high film forming rate, a laser ablation method is employed to apply a laser beam 2 to a target 1 cont... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5330968 | Laser ablation process for preparing oxide superconducting thin films A laser ablation process for preparing an oxide superconducting thin film characterized in that an electrode is arranged between a substrate and a target. While the film is formed by laser ablation, a bias voltage of 75-100 V is applied between the electr... | 07/19/1994 |
