Effect of bias electrode position on terahertz radiation from pentagonal mesas of superconducting Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 505-511

  Delfanazari, Kaveh ^a   Asai, Hidehiro ^b   Tsujimoto, Manabu ^c   Kashiwagi, Takanari ^d   Kitamura, Takeo ^d   Yamamoto, Takashi ^a,e   Wilson, Wade ^f   Klemm, Richard A ^f   Hattori, Toshiaki ^d   Kadowaki, Kazuo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

AC Josephson effect; cavity resonance; intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs); superconductor; terahertz (THz) emitter devices

Indexed keywords

CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ION BEAMS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

AC JOSEPHSON EFFECT; CAVITY RESONANCES; EMITTER DEVICES; FOCUSED ION BEAM MILLING; INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS (IJJS); OPERATIONAL TEMPERATURE; STIRLING REFRIGERATORS; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

TERAHERTZ WAVES;

EID: 85027955462     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2015.2409552     Document Type: Article

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