Observation of bifurcations and hysteresis in nonlinear NbN superconducting microwave resonators

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1976-1986

  Abdo, Baleegh ^a,b   Arbel Segev, Eran ^b   Shtempluck, Oleg ^b   Buks, Eyal ^b  

^a IEEE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bifurcations; Hysteresis; Jumps; Microwave resonators; NbN; Nonlinear effects

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC RESONANCES; HYSTERESIS LOOPS; RESONANCE FREQUENCY DRIFTS; SUPERCONDUCTING MICROWAVE RESONATORS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; HYSTERESIS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

RESONATORS;

EID: 33845533591     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2006.881823     Document Type: Article

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