All-NbN single flux quantum circuits based on NbN/AlN/NbN tunnel junctions

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E83-C, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 69-74

  Terai, Hirotaka ^a   Wang, Zhen ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nbn integrated circuit; Nbn aln nbn tunnel junction; Operating margin; Overdumped junction; Sfq circuit; Sheet inductance

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SQUIDS; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRIC LINES; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

OVERDUMPED JUNCTIONS; SHEET INDUCTANCE; SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM (SFQ) CIRCUITS;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 0033640732     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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