Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications

Conventional Josephson metal-insulator-metal devices are inherently underdamped and exhibit hysteretic current -voltage response due to a very high subgap resistance compared to that in the normal state. At the same time, overdamped junctions with single-valued characteristics are needed for most su...

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Date:2017
Main Authors: Belogolovskii, M., Zhitlukhina, E., Lacquaniti, V., De Leo, N., Fretto, M., Sosso, A.
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Cite this:Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications / M. Belogolovskii, E. Zhitlukhina, V. Lacquaniti, N. De Leo, M. Fretto, A. Sosso // Физика низких температур. — 2017. — Т. 43, № 7. — С. 950-961. — Бібліогр.: 75 назв. — англ.

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author Belogolovskii, M.
Zhitlukhina, E.
Lacquaniti, V.
De Leo, N.
Fretto, M.
Sosso, A.
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description Conventional Josephson metal-insulator-metal devices are inherently underdamped and exhibit hysteretic current -voltage response due to a very high subgap resistance compared to that in the normal state. At the same time, overdamped junctions with single-valued characteristics are needed for most superconducting digital applications. The usual way to overcome the hysteretic behavior is to place an external low-resistance normal-metal shunt in parallel with each junction. Unfortunately, such solution results in a considerable complication of the circuitry design and introduces parasitic inductance through the junction. This paper provides a concise overview of some generic approaches that have been proposed in order to realize internal shunting in Josephson heterostructures with a barrier that itself contains the desired resistive component. The main attention is paid to self-shunted devices with local weak-link transmission probabilities that are so strongly disordered in the interface plane that transmission probabilities are tiny for the main part of the transition region between two super-conducting electrodes, while a small part of the interface is well transparent. We discuss the possibility of realizing a universal bimodal distribution function and emphasize advantages of such junctions that can be considered as a new class of self-shunted Josephson devices promising for practical applications in superconducting electronics operating at 4.2 K.
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Zhitlukhina, E.
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De Leo, N.
Fretto, M.
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Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications / M. Belogolovskii, E. Zhitlukhina, V. Lacquaniti, N. De Leo, M. Fretto, A. Sosso // Физика низких температур. — 2017. — Т. 43, № 7. — С. 950-961. — Бібліогр.: 75 назв. — англ.
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https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/129526
Conventional Josephson metal-insulator-metal devices are inherently underdamped and exhibit hysteretic current -voltage response due to a very high subgap resistance compared to that in the normal state. At the same time, overdamped junctions with single-valued characteristics are needed for most superconducting digital applications. The usual way to overcome the hysteretic behavior is to place an external low-resistance normal-metal shunt in parallel with each junction. Unfortunately, such solution results in a considerable complication of the circuitry design and introduces parasitic inductance through the junction. This paper provides a concise overview of some generic approaches that have been proposed in order to realize internal shunting in Josephson heterostructures with a barrier that itself contains the desired resistive component. The main attention is paid to self-shunted devices with local weak-link transmission probabilities that are so strongly disordered in the interface plane that transmission probabilities are tiny for the main part of the transition region between two super-conducting electrodes, while a small part of the interface is well transparent. We discuss the possibility of realizing a universal bimodal distribution function and emphasize advantages of such junctions that can be considered as a new class of self-shunted Josephson devices promising for practical applications in superconducting electronics operating at 4.2 K.
The study was carried out within the Fundamental Research
 Programme funded by the MES of Ukraine (Project
 No. 0117U002360).
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Фізико-технічний інститут низьких температур ім. Б.І. Вєркіна НАН України
Физика низких температур
Сверхпроводящие и мезоскопические структуры. К 70-летию со дня рождения А.Н. Омельянчука
Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications
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spellingShingle Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications
Belogolovskii, M.
Zhitlukhina, E.
Lacquaniti, V.
De Leo, N.
Fretto, M.
Sosso, A.
Сверхпроводящие и мезоскопические структуры. К 70-летию со дня рождения А.Н. Омельянчука
title Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications
title_full Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications
title_fullStr Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications
title_full_unstemmed Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications
title_short Intrinsically shunted Josephson junctions for electronics applications
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topic Сверхпроводящие и мезоскопические структуры. К 70-летию со дня рождения А.Н. Омельянчука
topic_facet Сверхпроводящие и мезоскопические структуры. К 70-летию со дня рождения А.Н. Омельянчука
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