Long length textured MgO template on Hastelloy C276™ (HC) has been successfully deposited in a reel-to-reel (R2R) electron beam (e-beam) evaporation system by inclined substrate deposition (ISD). High deposition rate up to 10 nm s −1 with exposure length of 7 cm has been realized. The MgO template showed good in-plane texture of 9.5 • -11.5 • measured from the (002) phi scans. Experimental results reveal that MgO in-plane texture is formed by the preferred growth direction of [11n] substrate normal and one of the MgO {200} planes rotates to the in-flux direction. A new expression, termed the 'two-thirds relationship', between the inclination angle α and the tilted angle of the (00l) plane from the substrate normal, β, has been summarized. YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7−δ (YBCO) film deposited by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on strontium ruthenate (SRO) buffered ISD MgO showed T c of 91 K with transition width of 1 K. Critical current measurement indicated an I c of 110 A cm −1 at 77 K in self-field for 0.68 µm YBCO film, corresponding to a J c of 1.6 MA cm −2 .

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Commercially available constantan alloy rods (nominal composition Cu55-Ni44-Mn1 wt%) have been thermo-mechanically processed to develop biaxially textured substrates. It was found that the (001) recrystallization cube texture percentage could be increased from 72% to nearly 100% as the annealing temperature of the rolled substrates was increased from 750 to 1200 • C. A full width half maximum (FWHM) of 6.5 • in (111) phi scans and an FWHM of 4.9 • in (100) omega scans were observed in the substrates annealed at 1200 • C for 2 h. These substrates were found to have a Curie temperature of 35 K and so were paramagnetic at 77 K and ferromagnetic at 5 K with a saturation magnetization that is 2.5 times less than that of Ni-5 at.% W substrates. Yield strengths of highly textured constantan substrates were found to be 1.5 times that of textured pure Ni substrates at room temperature.