مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Temperature dependence of submillimeter wave response in the point-contact Josephson junction

Abstract :

We have measured the magnitude of the first Shapiro step in both bridge-type (Ta-Ta and Ta-Sn) and tunnel-type (Ta-SnOx-Sn) point-contact Josephson junctions in the SMMW ( Submillimeter Wave ) region. By varying the temperature continuously with the frequency of the SMMW fixed (ω=2π/λ, λ = 699, 570 and 469μm) . we determined $I_{1}^{\\max }/I_{c}$ minutely as a function of the normalized frequency $\\omega /\\omega _{g}$ (T), where $I_{1}^{\\max }$ is the maximum (half) height of the first Shapiro step as a function of the ac field power, Icis the critical current, and $\\omega _{g}(T)=4\\Delta _{Ta}(T)/h$ or $2(\\Delta _{Ta}(T)+\\Delta _{Sn}(T))/h$ . By fitting the shape of the Riedel peak at $\\omega /\\omega _{g}(T)=I$ with the theory of the tunnel junction, we have determined the damping factor δ. We obtained δ =0.02 for the Ta-SnOx-Sn tunnel- type junction, and δ=0.05 for both the Ta-Sn and Ta-Ta bridge - type junctions, respectively. At $\\omega /\\omega _{g}(T)> 1.5$ , we have found that $I_{1}^{\\max }/I_{c}$ tends to saturate in both the tunnel-type and the bridge-type junctions as $\\omega /\\omega _{g}(T)$ increases. For the tunnel-type junction, this agrees with the very slow decrease predicted by the theory of the tunnel junction. But for the bridge-type junction, this slow decrease is in marked contrast to the very rapid decrease found from the previous experiments, where the Shapiro step was measuared for a number of frequencies at a fixed temperature.