Patent ID: 6846344

Claim:
A biaxially textured alloy article having a magnetism less than pure Ni comprising a rolled and annealed compacted and sintered powder-metallurgy preform article, said preform article having been formed from a powder mixture selected from the group of mixtures consisting of: at least 60 at % Ni powder and at least one of Cr powder, W powder, V powder, Mo powder, Cu powder, Al powder, Ce powder, YSZ powder, Y powder, Mg powder, and RE powder; said alloy article having a stacking fault frequency greater than 0.009 at room temperature; said alloy article having a fine and homogeneous grain structure; said alloy article having a dominant cube oriented {100}<100> orientation texture; said alloy article further having a Curie temperature less than that of pure Ni, said alloy article further comprising at least one layer having superconducting properties.