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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2001
Jonathan G. Storer, Mendota Heights, MN (US);
Bruce C. Williams, Forest Lake, MN (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, Saint Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
Described is an article having a substrate; a thermochemically stable, amorphous layer comprising tantalum or a tantalum-containing material; a layer of material having a rock salt-like structure having substantial alignment both in-plane and out-of-plane; a superconducting layer formed on said rock salt-like layer having substantial in-plane and out-of-plane alignment; wherein said rock salt-like layer provides a template for the epitaxial growth of said superconducting layer; and an optional buffer layer or layers having substantial alignment both in-plane and out-of-plane, between the rock salt-like structure layer and the superconducting layer.