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Superconductive Electronics Group

Exploits the quantum behavior of superconducting Josephson junctions and materials to develop novel superconducting electronic devices, circuits, systems, and precision measurement techniques for state-of-the-art electrical measurements.

Superconductive Electronics Group 2024
Credit: CTL

The Superconductive Electronics Group utilizes the quantum effects of Josephson junctions in specialized superconducting integrated circuits to improve measurement technology and standards for fundamental metrology, such as for dc and ac voltage, waveform synthesis, and primary thermometry, and for applications that require high-performance, such as energy-efficient advanced computing and RF communications. The Quantum Voltage and Noise Thermometry Projects develop and disseminate standard reference instruments and measurement best practices for dc and ac voltage metrology, RF metrology and primary thermometry. The Flux Quantum Electronics Project develops cryogenic superconductive circuits and measurement techniques for advanced, energy-efficient computing, RF communications, and electrical metrology.

Voltage Metrology with Superconductive Electronics

Voltage Metrology with Superconductive Electronics presentation

Presenter: Sam Benz
Fundamental standards for voltage, dc and ac, are based on the Josephson Effect. In this talk from the Applied Superconductivity Conference 2016, Sam Benz discusses the development, state-of-the-art, and future prospects for these standards.

PDF Files: Abstract | Annotated slides

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Projects and Programs

Flux Quantum Electronics

Ongoing
Quantum-Based Reference Sources The demand for wireless communications has exploded over the last 2 decades and there is no end in sight. The quest for higher bandwidth is driving the use of higher carrier frequencies in the microwave and millimeter-wave (>30 GHz) bands. However, there are no

Quantum Voltage Project

Ongoing
Researchers in the Quantum Voltage Project develop and disseminate highly accurate instruments that exploit the quantum mechanical properties of superconductive devices known as Josephson junctions (JJs), as well as measurement techniques and best-practices for using these instruments. When a JJ is

Publications

VHF Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

Author(s)
Jeremy Thomas, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Anna Fox, Akim Babenko, Samuel Benz, Paul Dresselhaus
We report on the design, fabrication, and measurement of a Very High Frequency band Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (VHF-JAWS) at frequencies up to 50

Awards

2019 Van Duzer Prize

The paper "1 GHz Waveform Synthesis with Josephson Junction Arrays", IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity vol. 30, no. 3, article

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