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Alain Rufenacht (Fed)

Publications

Stability Study of ac Voltage Source using Josephson Voltage Standards

Author(s)
Ghislain Granger, Waldemar G. Kuerten Ihlenfeld, Alain Rufenacht, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Anna Fox, Raegan Johnson, Jesus Mejia
The stability of an ac voltage source fabricated at the National Research Council Canada (NRC) is investigated. NRC uses differential sampling to monitor the

Pulse Patterns for the Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer

Author(s)
Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Raegan Johnson, Jeremy Thomas, Alain Rufenacht, Anna Fox, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel Benz
Δ-sigma algorithms are used to determine the desired sequence of quantum-based voltage pulses used by the Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer (JAWS) to
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Patents (2018-Present)

Josephson Voltage Standard

NIST Inventors
Samuel P. Benz , Paul Dresselhaus , Alain Rufenacht , Nathan Flowers-Jacobs and Anna Fox
A Josephson voltage standard includes: electrical conductors that receive bias currents and radiofrequency biases; a first Josephson junction array that: includes a first Josephson junction and produces a first voltage reference from the first bias current and the third bias current; a second
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Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022