Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process inventions 06/06

20060142164 - Architecture for coated conductors: Articles are provided including a base substrate having a layer of an oriented cubic oxide material with a rock-salt-like structure layer thereon, and, a layer of epitaxial titanium nitride upon the layer of an oriented cubic oxide material having a rock-salt-like structure. Such articles can further include thin films of...

20060135370 - Superconducting device having cryosystem and superconducting switch: A superconducting device has a cryosystem to whose cryogenic medium a superconducting appliance and a superconducting switching path (which is electrically connected to it and can be activated thermally by means of a heater) of a superconducting switch are thermally coupled. A pipeline, to whose end the superconducting switching path...

20060135371 - Method for removing nitrogen oxides nox using a material absorbing said oxides: Method for removing nitrogen oxides NOx from gas mixtures that contain them, comprising contacting of the gas mixtures with an absorbent material comprising compounds having formula CaCuO2 and/or Ca0.83CuO2 providing X-ray diffraction powder spectra that correspond, for the CaCuO2 compound, to JCPDS card 48-197 and, for the Ca0.83 CuO2, to...

20060116291 - Process for producing oxide superconductor, oxide superconductor and substrate supporting precursor thereof: A method for producing an oxide superconductor by partially melting and solidifying the precursor of the oxide superconductor is a method wherein the precursor is placed on a substrate material containing pure metal or a compound which is meltable in the precursor when the precursor is in a partially molten...

20060116292 - Superconducting device and superconducting cable: A superconducting device according to the present invention has an oxide superconducting wire. The sintering density of an oxide superconductor in the oxide superconducting wire is at least 93%, preferably at least 95%, and more preferably at least 99%. Thus, a superconducting device capable of suppressing ballooning also upon temperature...

20060116293 - Method of producing biaxially textured substrates and related articles, devices and systems: A biaxially textured article includes a substrate, a first buffer layer disposed on the substrate, the first buffer layer having uniaxial crystal texture characterized by out-of-plane texture with no significant in-plane crystallographic texture. A metal comprising second buffer layer is disposed on the first buffer layer, the second buffer layer...