Patents Assigned to American Superconductor
  • Doped YObuffer layers for laminated conductors
    Patent number: 7258928
    Abstract: A laminated conductor includes a metallic substrate having a surface, a biaxially textured buffer layer supported by the surface of the metallic substrate, the biaxially textured buffer layer comprising Y2O3 and a dopant for blocking cation diffusion through the Y2O3, and a biaxially textured conductor layer supported by the biaxially textured buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2007
    Assignees: UT-Battelle, LLC, American Superconductor
    Inventors: Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, Urs Schoop, Amit Goyal, Cornelis Leo Hans Thieme, Darren T. Verebelyi, Martin W. Rupich