Discrete superconducting vortex flow transistors

Author

Berman, D. ; van der Zant, H.S.J. ; Orlando, T.P. ; Delin, K.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

4

Issue

3

fYear

1994

Firstpage

161

Lastpage

168

Abstract

We have fabricated an overdamped superconducting discrete vortex flow transistor (DVFT) which consists of an array of Josephson junctions coupled together in parallel. Measurements on this DVFT indicate a current gain of 1.2 when the control current is injected parallel to the array of junctions. We have developed a model that successfully predicts the performance of our low-T/sub c/ DVFT, including its current gain. When the current is injected parallel to the array, the gain is linear in the number of junctions and can be made much greater than 1. Except for the output voltage, the results of the DVFT are comparable to those of the present high-T/sub c/ devices.<>

Keywords

Josephson effect; flux flow; niobium; superconducting junction devices; type II superconductors; Josephson junction array; Nb; control current; current gain; linear gain; model; output voltage; superconducting discrete vortex flow transistor; Delay; Discrete wavelet transforms; Gain; High temperature superconductors; Josephson junctions; Niobium; Predictive models; Superconducting devices; Superconducting films; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.317832

Filename

317832