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Cryocooled 10 V Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard

Published

Author(s)

Alain Rufenacht, Logan A. Howe, Anna E. Fox, Robert E. Schwall, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Charles J. Burroughs, Samuel P. Benz

Abstract

Improvements in fabrication and packaging of our 10 V Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard circuits have enabled the successful operation of these devices on a cryocooler. Limited cooling power and temperature oscillations at the chip must not compromise the accuracy of the quantized voltage steps. Flat-spot measurements of quantized voltages produced with all of the sub-arrays when the chip is biased at a temperature of 4.35 K produced a step width of 0.78 mA. This result was obtained with a cryostat that uses a modest 1.3 kW air-cooled compressor which generates 180 mW of cooling power at the chip.
Proceedings Title
Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Conference Digest
Volume
64
Issue
6
Conference Dates
August 24-29, 2014
Conference Location
Rio de Janeiro
Conference Title
Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements
Pub Type
Conferences

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2014.2374697

Keywords

Programmable Josephson voltage standards, closed-cycle cryocoolers, operating margins

Citation

Rufenacht, A. , Howe, L. , Fox, A. , Schwall, R. , Dresselhaus, P. , Burroughs, C. and Benz, S. (2014), Cryocooled 10 V Programmable Josephson Voltage Standard, Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements Conference Digest, Rio de Janeiro, -1, [online], https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2014.2374697 (Accessed April 23, 2024)

Created December 11, 2014, Updated November 10, 2018