USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Howard Lessoff

Nicholas Bottka

Richard F Greene

Marian E Hills

A method for growing a patterned superconductive oxide film of the general formula XZ.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.6+x is disclosed, wherein X is yttrium, a lanthanide or a mixture thereof, Z is one or more alkaline earth elements and x is a number between 0 and 1. This patterned superconductive oxide film of XZ.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.6+x is formed by preparing an aqueous solutuion of the nitrates of X, Z and Cu in the X:Z:Cu stoichiometric ratio of 1:2:3; spraying the aqueous nitrate solution onto a heated substrate to form on the substrate a thin film of XZ.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.y material, wherein y is an undefined number; spot-heating preselected portions of the thin film in an oxygen-rich atmosphere to convert the preselected portions into the patterned superconductive oxide film of XZ.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.6+x ; and removing the unheated thin film of XZ.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.y material with a solvent.

Method for growing patterned thin films of superconductors

A semiconductor multi-color filter spectrum analyzer is created by multiple pitaxial layers of varying composition. A DC sweep voltage is used to successively deplete the epitaxial layers. An AC voltage is used to modulate the absorption edge of the individual layers. A modification of this device concept is a variable bandwidth detector in which the spectral bandwidth is a function of the applied DC voltage.

Multi-color tunable semiconductor device

A semi-conductor multi-color tunable filter is created by multiple epitaxial layers of varying composition. An AC modulation voltage is superimposed on a sweep bias to periodically shift the fundamental absorption edge of each individual epitaxial layer. This arrangement permits a unique voltage to be associated with a particular color. A lock-in filter matches colors observed at a detector with the voltage present for a given observation.

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