Claims
- 1. A self insulating substrate tape, comprising:a first conducting tape having a facing side; a second conducting tape having a facing side facing the facing side of said first conducting tape; an electrically insulating layer interposed between the first conducting tape and the second conducting tape, and securing said first conducting tape to said second conducting tape by adhering to the facing sides of said first conducting tape and said second conducting tape, said electrically insulating layer being capable of withstanding temperatures sufficiently high to make superconducting materials from refractory materials to be applied on the non-facing sides of the first and second conducting tapes without substantially degrading the electrically insulating properties of said layer; and a layer of one of a superconducting material and a superconducting material precursor on each of said first conducting and second conducting tapes on the sides thereof opposite said facing sides.
- 2. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 1, wherein said first and second conducting tapes are made of one of silver, nickel, nickel alloy and silver alloy.
- 3. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 2, wherein said first and said second conducting tapes are made of a silver alloy selected to be one of silver magnesium alloy, silver zirconium alloy, silver aluminum alloy and silver yttrium alloy.
- 4. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 2, wherein said first and said second conducting tapes are made of one of a nickel alloy and a nickel chromium alloy which is a haste alloy.
- 5. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 1, wherein said insulating layer is made of one of alumina, zirconia and MgO.
- 6. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 1, wherein said insulating layer is made of refractory material.
- 7. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 1, wherein said insulating layer is of a thickness of about 5 microns to about 40 microns.
- 8. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 7, in which said insulating layer has been deposited on said first and said second conducting tape by a sol-gel coating technique.
- 9. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 6, in which said first and said second conducting tapes are bonded together by rolling.
- 10. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 9, in which said first and said second conducting tapes are bonded together by hot rolling.
- 11. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 1, wherein each one of said first and said second conducting tapes has a thickness of about 25 microns.
- 12. A self insulating substrate tape as in claim 1 further comprising a polymer coating on the edges of said substrate to prevent superconducting materials or superconducting material precursors which have been deposited on the non-facing sides of the first and the second conducting tapes, from making contact with each other, after having been deposited thereon.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation in part of abandoned application Ser. No. 08/839,429 filed Apr. 14, 1997 of the same inventors herein, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein, and to which priority is claimed.
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