Abstract
We have developed vertically stacked supercon-ductor- normal-metal- superconductor Josephson junction technology for the next-generation quantum voltage standards. Stacked junctions provide a practical way of increasing the output voltage and operating margins. In this paper, we present fully functioning programmable voltage standard chips with double-and triple- stacked MoSi2 barrier Josephson junctions with over 100 000 junctions operating simultaneously on a 1 cm × 1 cm chip. The maximum output voltages of the double- and triple-stacked chips were 2.6 V and 3.9 V, with respective operating current margins of 2 mA and 1 mA. A new trinary-logic design is used to achieve higher voltage resolution. Thermal transport in these high-density chips will be briefly discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 461-464 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 2 PART I |
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| State | Published - Jun 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Josephson arrays
- Programmable voltage standard
- Superconducting integrated circuits
- Superconductor-normal-superconductor devices