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Superconductive Electronics Group

Exploits the quantum behavior of superconducting Josephson junctions and materials to develop novel superconducting electronic devices, circuits, systems, and precision measurement techniques for state-of-the-art electrical measurements.

The Superconductive Electronics Group utilizes the quantum effects of Josephson junctions in specialized superconducting integrated circuits to improve measurement technology and standards for fundamental metrology, such as for dc and ac voltage, waveform synthesis, and primary thermometry, and for applications that require high-performance, such as energy-efficient advanced computing and RF communications. The Quantum Voltage and Noise Thermometry Projects develop and disseminate standard reference instruments and measurement best practices for dc and ac voltage metrology, RF metrology and primary thermometry. The Flux Quantum Electronics Project develops cryogenic superconductive circuits and measurement techniques for advanced, energy-efficient computing, RF communications, and electrical metrology.

Voltage Metrology with Superconductive Electronics

Voltage Metrology with Superconductive Electronics presentation

Presenter: Sam Benz
Fundamental standards for voltage, dc and ac, are based on the Josephson Effect. In this talk from the Applied Superconductivity Conference 2016, Sam Benz discusses the development, state-of-the-art, and future prospects for these standards.

PDF Files: Abstract | Annotated slides

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Flux Quantum Electronics

Ongoing
Researchers in the Flux Quantum Electronics (FQE) Project exploit the inherent quantum behavior of superconductivity to develop cryogenic superconductive

Noise Thermometry

Ongoing
The Noise Thermometry Project is applying quantum-based voltage waveform synthesis to a precision measurement of Boltzmann's constant k B by developing a

Quantum Voltage Project

Ongoing
Goal: To develop Josephson voltage standard (JVS) systems to improve the dissemination of primary standards and the accuracy of voltage measurements from DC to

Publications

Quantum-Based Microwave Modulated Waveforms

Author(s)
Akim Babenko, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Anna Fox, Paul Dresselhaus, Zoya Popovic, Samuel P. Benz
This paper presents a superconducting voltage source that generates microwave modulated waveforms with quantum-based stability. The voltage source - an RF

Awards

2019 Van Duzer Prize

The paper "1 GHz Waveform Synthesis with Josephson Junction Arrays" , IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity vol. 30, no. 3, article

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