Single-chip 10-V programmable josephson voltage standard system based on a refrigerator and its precision evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-25

  Yamada, Takahiro ^a   Urano, Chiharu ^b   Nishinaka, Hidefumi ^b   Murayama, Yasushi ^b   Iwasa, Akio ^b   Yamamori, Hirotake ^a   Sasaki, Hitoshi ^a   Shoji, Akira ^a   Nakamura, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cryogenic electronics; Josephson junctions (JJs); Uncertainty; Voltage

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-CYCLE REFRIGERATORS; CRYOGENIC ELECTRONICS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARDS; PRECISION EVALUATION; PROGRAMMABLE JOSEPHSON VOLTAGE STANDARD; SINGLE-CHIP; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; SYSTEM-BASED;

CRYOGENICS; REFRIGERATORS; STANDARDS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 76749092530     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2033939     Document Type: Article

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