Niobium-based junctions are still the best candidates for many small-scale applications of superconductivity and in particular, for the design and the fabrication of programmable voltage standards and D/A converters of fundamental accuracy. Non-hysteretic junctions with a large current density J(C), and a reasonable characteristic voltage Vc are required, while, in order to make these circuits available to a wider market, operation at temperatures above 4.2 K would be important. In this work we report our results achieved on Nb/Al - AlO(X)/Nb junctions whose properties are studied in order to optimize the aforementioned features. Their behavior is analyzed showing how the overdamped characteristic is obtained with a less critical structure compared to other type of junctions. Moreover, using the scattering matrix approach, we have calculated a deviation of superconducting current-phase relation in such a SNIS Josephson junction from sinusoidal one and its effect on the current amplitudes of Shapiro steps as function of temperature. Measurement of the step dependence on temperature are also reported, where we considered the possibility of using both n = 1 and n = 2 step above 4.2 K, for a possible reduction of the number of junctions in array circuits.

Engineering overdamped niobium-based Josephson junctions operating above 4.2 K / Lacquaniti, Vincenzo; Andreone, D; DE LEO, Maria; Fretto, MATTEO ANDREA; Sosso, Andrea; Khachaturova, T; Belogolovskii, M.. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. - ISSN 1051-8223. - 19:3(2009), pp. 234-237. [10.1109/TASC.2009.2019072]

Engineering overdamped niobium-based Josephson junctions operating above 4.2 K

LACQUANITI, VINCENZO;DE LEO, MARIA;FRETTO, MATTEO ANDREA;SOSSO, ANDREA;
2009

Abstract

Niobium-based junctions are still the best candidates for many small-scale applications of superconductivity and in particular, for the design and the fabrication of programmable voltage standards and D/A converters of fundamental accuracy. Non-hysteretic junctions with a large current density J(C), and a reasonable characteristic voltage Vc are required, while, in order to make these circuits available to a wider market, operation at temperatures above 4.2 K would be important. In this work we report our results achieved on Nb/Al - AlO(X)/Nb junctions whose properties are studied in order to optimize the aforementioned features. Their behavior is analyzed showing how the overdamped characteristic is obtained with a less critical structure compared to other type of junctions. Moreover, using the scattering matrix approach, we have calculated a deviation of superconducting current-phase relation in such a SNIS Josephson junction from sinusoidal one and its effect on the current amplitudes of Shapiro steps as function of temperature. Measurement of the step dependence on temperature are also reported, where we considered the possibility of using both n = 1 and n = 2 step above 4.2 K, for a possible reduction of the number of junctions in array circuits.
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