Switching current measurements of large area Josephson tunnel junctions

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3740-3748

  Wallraff, A ^a,b   Lukashenko, A ^a   Coqui, C ^a   Kemp, A ^a   Duty, T ^a,c,d   Ustinov, A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Yale University   (United States)

^c D WAVE SYSTEMS INC   (Canada)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENTS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LINKS; QUANTUM THEORY; SWITCHING; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

THERMAL PREFACTOR;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0042377463     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1588752     Document Type: Article

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