Abstract: A superconductive film of Nb.sub.3 Ge is produced by providing within a vacuum chamber a heated substrate and sources of niobium and germanium, reducing the pressure within the chamber to a residual pressure no greater than about 10.sup.-5 mm Hg, introducing nitrogen into the resulting evacuated chamber in controlled amounts and vaporizing the niobium and germanium to deposit a film of Nb.sub.3 Ge on the heated substrate.

Abstract: A superconductive film of Nb.sub.3 Ge is produced by providing within a vacuum chamber a heated substrate and sources of niobium and germanium, reducing the pressure within the chamber to a residual pressure no greater than about 10.sup.-5 mm Hg, introducing air into the resulting evacuated chamber in controlled amounts and vaporizing the niobium and germanium to deposit a film of Nb.sub.3 Ge on the heated substrate.

Abstract: A superconductive film of Nb.sub.3 Ge is produced by providing within a vacuum chamber a heated substrate and sources of niobium and germanium, reducing the pressure within the chamber to a residual pressure no greater than about 10.sup.-5 mm Hg, introducing oxygen into the resulting evacuated chamber in controlled amounts and vaporizing the niobium and germanium to deposite a film of Nb.sub.3 Ge on the heated substrate.

Abstract: A method of producing foil in a coil relates to the art of applying coatings under vacuum and can prove to be most advantageous in producing foil from pure metals. The proposed method is characterized in that the foil is obtained by continuous condensation of metallic vapors under vacuum on a layer of antiadhesive, said layer being applied to the surface of a rotating substrata, this resulting in producing a metal layer - the foil, and in forming simultaneously a coil thereof, both said operations: the producing of the foil and forming the coil thereof being effected on one rotating substrata so that each next metal layer is being formed on an antiadhesive layer applied to the preceding metal layer. With the herein-proposed method the produced foil exhibits the same degree of reflectivity from both sides, and it is also possible for a coil to be formed while producing the foil which ensures an adequate quality of said foil.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for producing elongated metal articles by atomizing molten metal in an inert atmosphere and cooling the particles to remove at least some heat of fusion, but not below 40% of the solidus temperature on the centrigrade scale, while they fall onto a bed of particles on a moving support. The particles are then consolidated by means such as passing the bed through rolls to form an elongated metal article.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing a high density spray cast metal body from a highly energetic atomized metal stream by directing said atomized stream into the interior of a mold and causing said stream to scan and fill said mold interior by effecting relative movement between said atomized metal stream and said mold, thereby producing a fine grained spray cast metal body of high density.

Abstract: A band-shaped metal layer useful as a resistance layer and/or a contact layer is pyrolytically deposited onto a cylindrical substrate by surrounding the surface of the substrate with a mixture of a thermally decomposable metal compound and a carrier therefor and substantially simultaneously heating only precise surface areas of the substrate, as by a laser beam, to a temperature slightly above the thermal decomposition temperature of the metal compound and moving the substrate in a rotational and/or axial manner so that a band-shaped metal layer forms only at the heated surface areas of the substrate.

Abstract: A method for producing films wherein the material of which the film is to be formed or the constituents of that material are emitted in the vapor state under a high vacuum, the vapor is condensed to the solid state on the surface of a liquid bath, and the condensed film is then separated from the liquid.

Abstract: An improved reinforcing material for concrete is manufactured by causing molten steel to impinge upon a relatively cold metal surface of great cooling capacity, moving rapidly substantially across the direction of delivery of the molten steel, to form at least one discrete relatively thin flake-shaped layer of molten steel on the metal surface, causing the layer to solidify on said metal surface to form a steel flake, and mutually adjusting the parameters which determine the shape and the dimensions of the steel flakes so as to give the flakes a shape tapering towards the ends of the flake and a thickness of about 0.1 mm to about 0.5 mm, a maximum width of at least about ten times the thickness but at least about 2 mm, and a length of at least about 100 times the thickness.

Abstract: A method for making beam leads for use in the interconnecting of electronic packages to a substrate. Metal foil, such as copper, is etched to form a plurality of beam leads and then a second metal having poor adhesion with said metal foil is deposited onto the metal foil. The second metal is then separated from the metal foil and the metal foil is reuseable as a depository for another deposition of the second metal which is the desired beam leads.