Patent ID: 7560291

Claim:
A method of making a layered article of manufacture, comprising providing a substrate; depositing a biaxially textured MgO crystalline layer from a plume of MgO ions on the substrate by the inclined substrate deposition (ISD) method, the MgO having the c-axes thereof inclined with respect to the substrate normal; depositing a layer of one or more of YSZ or Y 2 O 3 from a source thereof on the biaxially textured MgO crystalline layer; depositing a layer of CeO 2 from a source thereof on said layer of one or more of YSZ or Y 2 O 3 ; and depositing a crystalline superconductor layer from a source thereof on the CeO 2 layer, the crystalline superconductor having the c-axes thereof normal to the substrate.