THE SINGLY QUASI-DEGENERATE JOSEPHSON JUNCTION PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER. DESIGN GUIDE LINES

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. PREFACE V
3. CONTENTS VII
4. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS XIII
5. JOSEPHSON JUNCTION PHYSICS
6. PROGRESS IN PHYSICS OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 1
7. NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHENOMENA IN JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 29
8. STUDY OF A SPIN-GLASS PHASE TRANSITION BY THE DC JOSEPHSON EFFECT 71
9. CHARACTERIZATION OP NON EQUILIBRIUM SUPERCONDUCTIVITY VIA THE JOSEPHSON EFFECT 81
10. LOCALLY LOWERED TUNNELING BARRIERS IN LIGHT-SENSITIVE JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 87
11. PREPARATION PARAMETERS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF VANADIUM BASED JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 95
12. MEASUREMENT OF THE COS - AMPLITUDE OF NIOBIUM POINT CONTACTS CONTAINED IN A RF- SQUID 109
13. AN ELECTRONIC ANALOGUE OF A HIGH FREQUENCY THEORY OF THE JOSEPHSON EFFECT 115
14. SUPERCURRENT INTERFERENCE PATTERNS AND QUASIPARTICLE EXCESS CURRENTS IN JOSEPHSON TUNNEL JUNCTIONS 131
15. MAGNETIC FIELD BEHAVIOR OF CURRENT STEPS IN LONG JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 147
16. PROPERTIES OF COHERENT VORTEX MOTION IN Pb-Nb-Pb ION IMPLANT VARIABLE THICKNESS BRIDGES 157
17. THE EFFECT OF MAGNETIC FIELD ON THE HEIGHT OF MICROWAVE-INDUCED STEP 165
18. THE CURRENT-PHASE RELATION OP SUPERCONDUCTING BRIDGES 171
19. SUB-HARMONIC STEPS OF SUPERCONDUCTING BRIDGES 173
20. EFFECTS OF MICROWAVE RADIATION ON GRANULAR Al MICROBRIDGES 177
21. JUNCTION AND CIRCUIT NOISE
22. FLUCTUATIONS ANALYSIS 187
23. QUANTUM LIMITED AC-BIASED SQUID MAGNETOMETER 207
24. ON THE Ø_DC-DEPENDENCE OF RF-SQUID NOISE 211
25. THE PLASMA RESONANCE IN THE RF IMPEDANCE AND THE WIDE-BAND RESPONSE OF A CAPACITIVELY SHUNTED JOSEPHSON JUNCTION 219
26. LOW FREQUENCY NOISE IN SMALL-AREA TUNNEL JUNCTION dc SQUIDs 227
27. THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM FLUCTUATIONS GENERATED BY A JOSEPHSON TUNNEL JUNCTION DESCRIBED BY THE WERTHAMER THEORY 237
28. QUANTUM VERSUS THERMALLY EXCITED FLUXOID TRANSITIONS IN A SQUID RING 247
29. JUNCTION AND CIRCUIT FABRICATION
30. JUNCTION AND CIRCUIT FABRICATION 257
31. HIGH RELIABILITY PB-ALLOY JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS 297
32. SUPERCONDUCTIVE TUNNELING THROUGH EDGE-GROWN BARRIERS 329
33. REFRACTORY WEAK LINK JOSEPHSON DEVICES 333
34. FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FILM PARAMETERS IN ION-IMPLANT Nb BRIDGES WITH THICK Pb BANKS 345
35. NB WEAK LINKS FOR SQUID APPLICATIONS 353
36. ULTRA LOW NOISE DC SQUIDS 365
37. SOME PROPERTIES OF Nb₂O₅ THERMALLY GROWN TUNNEL BARRIERS IN Nb-Nb₂O₅-Pb(In) JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 381
38. DC SQUIDS FABRICATED WITH NIOBIUM-NIOBIUM TUNNEL JUNCTIONS 391
39. FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMALLY RECYCLABLE SUBMICRON NIOBIUMNIOBIUM JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 399
40. SIMPLE FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THIN-FILM NIOBIUM SQUID'S WORKING AT 4.2 K 417
41. CRYOGENIC TECHNIQUES
42. CRYOGENICS FOR SQUIDs 423
43. FUNDAMENTALS FOR SQUID APPLICATIONS
44. FUNDAMENTALS FOR SQUID APPLICATIONS 445
45. SIGNAL AND NOISE PARAMETERS OF SQUIDs 473
46. SQUID APPLICATIONS IN LOW FREQUENCY DEVICES
47. APPLICATIONS OF SQUIDS TO NUCLEAR GYROS AND MAGNETOMETERS 509
48. APPLICATION OF THE SQUID-MAGNETOMETER FOR OPTOMAGNETIC INVESTIGATION 519
49. OPTIMISING THE DESIGN OP THIN-FILM D.C. SQUID GRADIOMETERS 535
50. THE TEMPERATURE, PRESSURE, AND POWER DEPENDENCE OF STABLE CRYO-RESISTORS 549
51. MEASUREMENT OF ORDER-PARAMETER VARIATIONS IN A SUPERCONDUCTING ALUMINIUM FILM 553
52. TOROIDAL SQUID WITH A NORMAL METAL FILTER 561
53. BEHAVIOR OF THE DC IMPEDANCE OF AN RF-BIASED RESISTIVE SQUID 569
54. INPUT INDUCTANCE OP THE EF SQUID IN HYSTEKETIC MODE 585
55. ANALYSIS OF THE REVERSIBLE MAGNETIZATION OF A RF SQUID CONTAINING A WEAK LINK WITH A NON-SINUSOIDAL CURRENT PHASE RELATIONSHIP 591
56. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMIC FLUX TUNNELLING IN SQUID MAGNETOMETER 599
57. SQUID APPLICATIONS IN GEOPHYSICS
58. GEOPHYSICAL APPLICATIONS OF SQUIDS 603
59. USE OF SUPERCONDUCTIVE MAGNETIC GRADIOMETERS FOR MEASURING MAGNETIC EFFECTS OF GEOPHYSICAL ORIGIN 615
60. THE DESIGN OF DEWAR SYSTEMS FOR GEOPHYSICAL SQUID MAGNETOMETERS 633
61. JUNCTION AND SQUID APPLICATIONS IN COMPUTERS AND CRYOELECTRONICS
62. COMPUTERS AND CRYOELECTRONICS 651
63. TURN-ON DELAYS IN SINGLE JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES 685
64. EFFECTS OF MAGNETIC FIELDS AND QUASI-PARTICLE CONDUCTANCE ON TRANSITION DYNAMICS IN DC SQUIDS 703
65. DIRECT-COUPLED FOUR JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS LOGIC GATE 713
66. TOLERANCES AND GAIN OF ASYMMETRIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION INTERFEROMETER FOR AND GATES 725
67. JOSEPHSON FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS - JOFET'S 735
68. JUNCTION AND SQUID APPLICATIONS IN MICROWAVE DEVICES
69. RF APPLICATIONS OF SUPERCONDUCTING TUNNELING DEVICES 739
70. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OP THE MAGNETIC COUPLING 763
71. MICROWAVE PROPERTIES OF LONG JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 769
72. MICROWAVE INDUCED HARMONIC AND SUBHARMONIC STEPS IN THE I-V CHARACTERISTICS OF CURRENT FED JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 783
73. THE SINGLY QUASI-DEGENERATE JOSEPHSON JUNCTION PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER. DESIGN GUIDE LINES 797
74. JOSEPHSON PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER AS A PART OF A GRAVITY WAVE DETECTION SCHEME 813
75. JOSEPHSON JUNCTION APPLICATIONS IN PLASMA PHYSICS 831
76. VIDEO-DETECTION OF MM-WAVE RADIATION USING SIS JOSEPHSON JUNCTION 841
77. MM-WAVE DETECTION USING QUASIPARTICLE TUNNELING 851
78. H.J. Hartfuß, K.H. Gundlach 857
79. DETECTION OF MM.-RADIATION WITH HIGH CURRENT DENSITY SUBMICRON NIOBIUM-NIOBIUM JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 863
80. THEORY OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTION MIXERS 875
81. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTION HARMONIC MIXERS WITH EVEN AND ODD HARMONIC NUMBERS 889
82. SIS QUASIPARTICLE MIXING WITH LONG ANTENNA-COUPLED ARRAYS 901
83. JOSEPHSON RADIATION EMITTED FROM A MICROBRIDGE AT 9, 35 AND 69 GHz 907
84. COHERENT RADIATION OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAYS 921
85. MICROWAVE GENERATION USING COHERENT ARRAYS OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS 939
86. A NEW INTEGRATED MICROWAVE SQUID CIRCUIT DESIGN 955
87. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
88. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 961
89. SUBJECT INDEX 971
90. AUTHOR INDEX 988