Pulse-bias electronics and techniques for a Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Benz, Samuel P ^a   Waltman, Steven B ^a,b  

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

^b High Speed Circuit Consultants ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; QUANTIZATION (SIGNAL); SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES; DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERSION; DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTERS; JOSEPHSON ARBITRARY WAVEFORM SYNTHESIZERS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE WAVEFORMS;

BIAS VOLTAGE;

EID: 84914815685     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2014.2338326     Document Type: Article

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