Flicker (1/f) noise in the critical current of Josephson junctions at 0.09-4.2 K

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 5296-5298

  Wellstood, F C ^a,b,c   Urbina, C ^a,b,d   Clarke, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT FLUCTUATIONS; DEPHASING; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISES; SINGLE ELECTRON TRANSISTORS (SET);

CRITICAL CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; FREQUENCIES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 11244283449     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1826236     Document Type: Article

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