844 results about "High-temperature superconductivity" patented technology

An article including a substrate, a layer of an inert oxide material upon the surface of the substrate, (generally the inert oxide material layer has a smooth surface, i.e., a RMS roughness of less than about 2 nm), a layer of an amorphous oxide or oxynitride material upon the inert oxide material layer, a layer of an oriented cubic oxide material having a rock-salt-like structure upon the amorphous oxide material layer is provided together with additional layers such as at least one layer of a buffer material upon the oriented cubic oxide material layer or a HTS top-layer of YBCO directly upon the oriented cubic oxide material layer. With a HTS top-layer of YBCO upon at least one layer of a buffer material in such an article, Jc's of 1.4×106 A / cm2 have been demonstrated with projected Ic's of 210 Amperes across a sample 1 cm wide.

A multifilament high temperature superconductor with thick, striated stabilizer is disclosed, including a substrate, a buffer layer, a multifilament superconductor layer, and at least one thick stabilizer layer. Also disclosed are components incorporating superconducting tapes and methods for manufacturing same.

Narrowband quadrupole resonance (QR) probes were developed from thin-film high-temperature superconducting (HTS) resonators. The QR probes are useful in analyte-detection systems, in particular for the detection of nitrogen-containing compounds. Embodiments of the invention provide greater than an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity and the ability to reject RF interference sources located outside the pass-band of a superconducting QR probe. Methods and apparatus are described for analyte detection and resonance frequency adjustment.

A high temperature superconductor structure including: a substrate on which at least one buffer layer is deposited, a superconductor layer on the buffer layer, the superconducting layer composed of superconductor material that forms at least two substantially parallel superconductor filaments that continuously extend along the length of the substrate wherein at least two superconductor filaments are separated from each other by at least one insulating strip wherein the insulating strip continuously extends along the length of the substrate and is composed of insulating material with a resistivity greater than about 1 mΩcm. Also disclosed are methods of producing high temperature superconductors.

The present invention relates to a welding method for a second generation high temperature superconducting wire including a substrate, a buffer layer, a superconductor layer, and a stabilizing material layer, wherein parts of the stabilizing material layers contained in two strands of the second generation high temperature superconducting wire are removed, the superconductor layers of two strands of the second generation high temperature superconducting wire exposed by the removal of the stabilizing material layer abut each other and are heated to the melting point of the superconductor layer to melt-diffuse the abutting superconductor layers and weld two strands of the second generation high temperature superconducting wire together. Subsequently, the welded portion is oxygenation-annealed under an oxygen atmosphere to recover superconducting properties of the second high temperature superconducting wire. The above-described configuration of the present invention enables superconductor layers to directly abut each other and to be melt-diffused without using a mediator, thus producing a wire having a full length with a rare junction resistance as compared to a normal conduction junction method. Specifically, the present invention brings a partial oxygen pressure to a nearly vacuum state to lower the melting point, thereby enabling junction processes to be performed without melting a stabilizing material layer containing silver (Ag).

A gantry for administering proton beam therapy with improvements which reduce the size, weight, costs and radiation beam loss associated with proton beam therapy systems currently commercially available. The gantry utilizes achromatic superconducting multi-function electromagnet systems wherein the magnets can include dipoles and quadrupoles. The achromatic properties of the rampable magnet systems allow for ease of transmission of the beam whose energy is rapidly changed through a large range of different energies without changing of the strength of the magnetic fields or dipole settings. The magnets may be made with either low or high temperature superconductors. The gantry design further integrates beam scanning but keeps the gantry isocentric. A much greater fraction of the beam can be transmitted through the gantry than with current art, thereby reducing radiation shielding requirements and the demand put on the accelerator to produce large quantities of proton beam.

A super-conduction magnetic levitation device without liquid helium volatilization comprises a low temperature container (1), a refrigerating machine (2), a refrigerated screen (3), a liquid helium container (4), a super-conduction rotor (5), a levitation coil (6), a rotor cavity (7), an infusion tube (8), a condenser (12) and a polar axis displacement sensor (13). Heat generated by a current lead wire of the levitation coil (6) after the levitation coil (6) is powered on cannot be transmitted into the liquid helium container (4) through a room temperature current lead wire connector (9), a high temperature super-conduction current lead wire connector (10) and a low temperature super-conduction current lead wire connector (11), so that volatilization of liquid helium in the liquid helium container (4) is reduced. Helium in the condenser (12) is refrigerated through the refrigerating machine (2) to be liquefied so that zero volatilization of liquid helium in the liquid helium container (4) is achieved. The super-conduction magnetic levitation device without liquid helium volatilization does not need to be infused with liquid helium for many times and can independently run for a long period.

The decoupling of an array of two or more closely spaced high temperature superconductor sensors can be accomplished by introducing a capacitive decoupling circuit.