Coated conductors

1. A superconductive article comprising:

a base substrate having a layer of an IBAD oriented material thereon;

a layer of a barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate, or a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates upon the layer of IBAD oriented material; and,

a layer of a high temperature superconductive oxide material upon the layer of barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate, or a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates.

2. The superconductive article of claim 1 wherein the high temperature superconductive oxide material is a yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO).

3. An article comprising:

a base substrate having a layer of an IBAD oriented material thereon; and,

a layer of a barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate, or a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates upon the layer of IBAD oriented material.

4. The article of claim 3 wherein the layer of IBAD oriented material is selected from the group consisting of oriented oxide materials and oriented nitride material.

5. The article of claim 3 wherein the layer upon the IBAD oriented material is a barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate.

6. The article of claim 3 wherein the layer upon the IBAD oriented material is a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates.

7. The article of claim 6 wherein the layer of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates have a composition of RE x Zr 1−x O y or RE x Hf 1−x O y where x is from about 0.06 to about 0.75.

8. The article of claim 3 wherein the layer of barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate, or a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates is from about 10 nm to about 100 nm in thickness.

9. The article of claim 3 wherein the layer of IBAD oriented material is magnesium oxide.

10. The article of claim 3 wherein said layer of a barium-containing material is barium zirconate.

11. The article of claim 3 wherein said layer of a rare earth-containing material is samarium zirconate.

12. The article of claim 3 wherein the base substrate is a flexible polycrystalline metal.

13. The article of claim 12 wherein the layer of a rare earth-containing material is samarium zirconate deposited by reactive sputtering.

14. The article of claim 3 wherein the base substrate further includes an inert oxide material layer between the base substrate and the layer of IBAD oriented material.

15. The article of claim 3 wherein the base substrate further includes an inert oxide material layer selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, erbium oxide, and yttrium oxide on the base substrate, and a layer of an oxide or oxynitride material upon the inert oxide material layer and the layer of IBAD oriented material is upon the layer of an oxide or oxynitride material.

16. The article of claim 15 wherein the inert oxide material layer is selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, erbium oxide, and yttrium oxide.

17. The article of claim 15 wherein the oxide or oxynitride material layer is selected from the group consisting of yttrium oxide, aluminum oxynitride, erbium oxide, yttria-stabilized zirconia, cerium oxide and europium oxide.

18. The article of claim 3 further including a layer of a high temperature superconductive oxide material upon the layer of barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate, or a cubic metal oxide material selected from the group consisting of rare earth zirconates and rare earth hafnates.

19. The article of claim 18 wherein the high temperature superconductive oxide material is a yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO).

20. The article of claim 19 wherein the layer of a yttrium barium copper oxide includes flux pinning particulates therein.

21. The article of claim 20 wherein the flux pinning particulates are of barium zirconate.

22. The article of claim 5 further including a layer of strontium titanate between the layer of barium-containing material selected from the group consisting of barium zirconate, barium hafnate, barium titanate, barium strontium titanate, barium dysprosium zirconate, barium neodymium zirconate and barium samarium zirconate and a YBCO layer.