TY - JOUR KW - Laser deposition KW - Dielectric materials KW - High temperature superconductors KW - Epitaxial films KW - Yttrium barium copper oxides KW - Oxide superconductors KW - Ceramic Materials - Superconductivity KW - Films - Preparation KW - Lead Compounds - Thin Films KW - Yttrium Compounds - Superconductivity KW - Metal Oxide Ceramics KW - Praseodymium Barium Copper Niobium Oxides AU - C.T Rogers AU - A Inam AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh AU - J.-M Tarascon AU - K Remschnig AU - B.J Wilkins AU - D.L Hart AB - We have characterized the structural and transport properties of thin films of the insulating perovskite PrBa2Cu3_yNbyO7_Z (PrBCNO for y=l). This material is a promising candidate for applications requiring high quality epitaxial insulating layers in YBa2Cu3O7-y thin film circuits: PrBCNO is nearly tetragonal with <2% lattice mismatch to YBCO thus allowing the possibility of epitaxial multilayer growth. Using pulsed laser deposition, we have grown both PrBCNO single films and PrBCNO-YBCO multi-layers; growth conditions typical for YBCO result in highly oriented c-axis PrBCNO films and multi-layers on a variety of (001) substrates. Preliminary measurements show a PrBCNO resistivity > 105 Ω-cm and an optical index of refraction of 2.25 at room temperature for y=l. © 1991 IEEE BT - IEEE Transactions on Magnetics DO - 10.1109/20.133983 LA - eng M1 - 2 N1 - cited By 6 N2 - We have characterized the structural and transport properties of thin films of the insulating perovskite PrBa2Cu3_yNbyO7_Z (PrBCNO for y=l). This material is a promising candidate for applications requiring high quality epitaxial insulating layers in YBa2Cu3O7-y thin film circuits: PrBCNO is nearly tetragonal with <2% lattice mismatch to YBCO thus allowing the possibility of epitaxial multilayer growth. Using pulsed laser deposition, we have grown both PrBCNO single films and PrBCNO-YBCO multi-layers; growth conditions typical for YBCO result in highly oriented c-axis PrBCNO films and multi-layers on a variety of (001) substrates. Preliminary measurements show a PrBCNO resistivity > 105 Ω-cm and an optical index of refraction of 2.25 at room temperature for y=l. © 1991 IEEE PY - 1991 SP - 1600 EP - 1602 T2 - IEEE Transactions on Magnetics TI - PrBa2CU3_yNbyO7_Z Insulating Films for YBa2Cu3O7-Y Based High TCElectronics VL - 27 SN - 00189464 ER -