LARGE RF-CONTROLLED VOLTAGE STEPS IN DC SQUIDS APPLICABLE TO VOLTAGE STANDARDS AND SOURCES

被引:15
作者
Lee, G. S. [1 ]
Ko, H. L. [1 ]
Ruby, R. C. [1 ]
Barfknecht, A. T. [2 ]
机构
[1] Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
[2] Conductus Inc, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA
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10.1109/77.233514
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The current height of rf-induced voltage steps in non-hysteretic single Josephson junctions is usually a small fraction of the critical current. We demonstrate that when a resistively shunted dc SQUID is subjected to an rf magnetic flux, one obtains a voltage step with a large current height. In contrast to weak selection rules for single Josephson junctions, strong selection of the step harmonic number occurs in a shunted dc SQUID for appropriate choice of rf amplitude and dc flux offset, with odd harmonic numbers selected by half-integer flux quantum offsets and even harmonic numbers by integer flux quantum offsets. This pronounced effect has immediate implications for voltage standards and fast, high-precision digital-to-analog converters.
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页码:2740 / 2743
页数:4
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