100 GHz demonstrations based on the single-flux-quantum cell library for the 10 kA/cm2 Nb multi-layer process

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E93-C, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 440-444

  Yamanashf, Yuki ^a   Kainuma, Toshiki ^a   Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki ^a   Kataeva, Irina ^b   Akaike, Hiroyuki ^b   Fujimaki, Akira ^b   Tanaka, Masamitsu ^b   Takagi, Naofumi ^b   Nagasawa, Shuichi ^c   Hidaka, Mutsuo ^c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adder; Cell library; Josephson junction; Single flux quantum circuit

Indexed keywords

ADDERS; CROSSBAR EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LOGIC DEVICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SHIFT REGISTERS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

CELL LIBRARY; FABRICATION PROCESS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION; SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM; SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM CIRCUIT; SINGLE FLUX QUANTUM LOGIC; TOGGLE FLIP-FLOPS;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 77952992619     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E93.C.440     Document Type: Article

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