CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH CRITICAL-CURRENT DENSITY JOSEPHSON-JUNCTIONS WITH NB/ALOX/NB TRILAYERS

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作者
SUGIYAMA, H
FUJIMAKI, A
HAYAKAWA, H
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[1] Department of Quantum Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-01, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku
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10.1109/77.403157
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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We fabricated high critical current density (high Jc) Josephson junctions, up to 47 kA/cm(2), consisting of Nb/AlOx/Nb trialyers by use of high vacuum dc magnetron sputtering system (less than 10(-6) Pa). The relationship Jc proportional to(Pt)(-0.5) can be obtained up to 47 kA/cm(2), where P and t were pressure and time respectively in oxidizing an Al surface. In the high Jc junctions, microshorts existed in Al surfaces. A property peculiar to most of the high Jc junctions was a step appearing at 1/3 gap voltage on their I-V curves. Magnetic field dependence of this step was different from that of a Fiske step.
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