Experimentally verified design guidelines for minimizing the gray zone width of Josephson comparators

Superconductor Science and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Ebert, Bjoern ^a   Mielke, Olaf ^a   Kunert, Juergen ^b   Stolz, Ronny ^b   Ortlepp, Thomas ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT PARAMETER; DESIGN GUIDELINES; DESIGN RULES; GRAY ZONE; JOSEPHSON;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; NIOBIUM;

COMPARATORS (OPTICAL);

EID: 77951693227     PISSN: 09532048     EISSN: 13616668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/23/5/055005     Document Type: Article

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