Tapered transmission lines with dissipative junctions

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 993-998

  Dresselhaus, Paul D ^a   Elsbury, Michael M ^b   Benz, Samuel P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Josephson arrays; Nonlinear circuits; Superconducting transmission lines; Superconductor normal superconductor devices

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION ,; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; JOSEPHSON ARRAYS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; JUNCTION ARRAYS; LOSSY TRANSMISSION LINE; MICROWAVE POWER; NONLINEAR CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; PROGRAMMABLE JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARD; SIMULATION AND TESTING; SUB-ARRAYS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSMISSION LINES; SUPERCONDUCTOR-NORMAL-SUPERCONDUCTOR DEVICES; TAPERED TRANSMISSION LINES; TRANSMISSION LINE;

BANDPASS FILTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 68649120153     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2019245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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