Reduced power consumption in superconducting electronics

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 21, Issue 3 PART 1, 2011, Pages 770-775

  Ortlepp, Thomas ^a   Wetzstein, Olaf ^b   Engert, Sonja ^a   Kunert, Juergen ^b   Toepfer, Hannes ^a  

^a ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic field sensors; RSFQ; Superconducting electronics; Terms Josephson junction

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT APPLICATION; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION NETWORK; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INDUCTIVE BIAS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD SENSORS; OPERATION STABILITY; POWER DISSIPATION; QUANTUM CIRCUIT; RAPID SINGLE-FLUX QUANTUM; REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION; RSFQ; RSFQ CIRCUITS; SINGLE CHIPS; STATIC POWER CONSUMPTION; SUPERCONDUCTING ELECTRONICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVE CIRCUITS; SWITCHING ELEMENTS; SWITCHING ENERGY; TERMS-JOSEPHSON JUNCTION; THERMAL HEATING; VLSI SYSTEM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CRITICAL CURRENTS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HEATING; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 79957954699     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2011.2117410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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