ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,500, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston).
"Highly-textured thin films" was invented by Venkat Selvamanickam (Houston), Yongkuan Li (Houston) and Ying Gao (Mason, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconductor tape and method for fabricating same are disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a superconductor tape including a substrate and a buffer stack. In one embodiment, the buffer stack includes: an Ion Beam-Assisted Deposition (IBAD) template layer above the substrate; a homo-epitaxial film of MgO or TiN above the IBAD template layer; an epitaxial film of silver above the homo-epitaxial fil...