Bipolar pulse-drive electronics for a Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 428-431

  van den Brom, Helko E ^a   Houtzager, Ernest ^a   Brinkmeier, Bernd E R ^b   Chevtchenko, Oleg A ^a  

^a NMi Van Swinden Laboratorium   (Netherlands)

^b SYMPULS Gesellschaft für Pulstechnik und Meßsysteme mbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AC Josephson voltage standard; Josephson junction array; Metrology; Pulse pattern generator; Pulse driven Josephson junction

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PULSE GENERATORS;

JOSEPHSON ARBITRARY WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZER; PULSE PATTERN GENERATOR; PULSE-DRIVE ELECTRONICS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 39449102105     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.908607     Document Type: Article

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