Bell Telephone Laboratories

Conductus, Inc.

John M Rowell

Nathan Newman

Kookrin Char

Paul H Schmidt

William L Feldmann

To deposit a plurality of substances on a substrate while the substrate remains in a low pressure oxygen environment, several target carriers are mounted around the edge of a disc and the disc is rotated to position the targets at the focal point of a fixed laser. The target carriers are themselves rotatable in bearings on the disc and are turned by a sun gear that is carried about the same shaft that turns the disc so that the heat of the laser beam is not concentrated at one spot on the surface of the target. All the apparatus is contained in a oxygen chamber. The substrate is heated and the targets are cooled continuously.

Superconductor deposition system

Niobium-aluminum superconducting wire and other shaped articles are made by heating a precursor body which comprises niobium, an auxiliary element which is more easily oxidizable than aluminum, and aluminum oxide, the aluminum oxide being supported by a surface or a matrix comprising niobium and the auxiliary element. Among suitable auxiliary elements are zirconium, hafnium, scandium, yttrium, and the nonmagnetic rare earths.

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John M Rowell