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Samuel P. Benz (Fed)

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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

Pulse Patterns for the Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

Author(s)
Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Raegan Johnson, Jeremy Thomas, Alain Rufenacht, Anna Fox, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz
Δ-sigma algorithms are used to determine the desired sequence of quantum-based voltage pulses used by the Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) to
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Patents (2018-Present)

Josephson Voltage Standard

NIST Inventors
Samuel P. Benz , Paul Dresselhaus , Alain Rufenacht , Nathan Flowers-Jacobs and Anna Fox
A Josephson voltage standard includes: electrical conductors that receive bias currents and radiofrequency biases; a first Josephson junction array that: includes a first Josephson junction and produces a first voltage reference from the first bias current and the third bias current; a second

Superconducting Waveform Synthesizer

NIST Inventors
Samuel P. Benz , Manuel Castellanos Beltran , Paul Dresselhaus and Pete Hopkins
A superconducting waveform synthesizer produces an arbitrary waveform and includes an encoder that produces a bitstream; a pattern generator that produces a current bias pulse from the bitstream; a Josephson junction that produces a quantized output pulse from the current bias pulse; and a converter
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Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022