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Electrical Characteristics and Microwave Properties of MgO Bicrystal Josephson Junction with Polyvinylidene Fluoride Gate Electrode (Polyvinylidene Fluoride를 게이트 전극으로 이용한 MgO bicrystal Josephson junction의 전기 특성 및 마이크로파 특성 연구)

  • Yun, Yongju;Kim, Hyeoungmin;Park, Gwangseo;Kim, Jin-Tae
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.74-77
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    • 2001
  • We have fabricated a high-Tc superconductive transistor with polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) gate electrode on MgO bicrystal Josephson junction by spin-coating method. The PVDF ferroelectric film is found to be suitable fur a gate electrode of the superconductive transistor since it has not only small leakage current but also high dieletric constant at low temperature. For the application of superconducting-FET, we investigated millimeter wave properties (60 GHz band) of the Josephson junction with PVDF gate electrode.

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Operation of a High-T$_c$ Rapid Single-Flux-Quantum 4-stage Shift Register

  • Park, J.H.;Kim, Y.H.;Kang, J.H.;Hahn, T.S.;Kim, C.H.;Lee, J.M.
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.105-109
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    • 2000
  • We have designed and fabricated a single-flux-quantum(SFQ) four-stage shift register using YBCO bicrystal Josephson junctions, and tested its operations using a digital measurement set-up. The circuit consists of 4 shift register stages and a read SQUID placed next to each side of the shift register. Each SQUID was inductively coupled to the nearby shift register stage. The major obstacle in testing the circuits was the interference between the two read SQUIDs, and we could get over the problem by determining the correct operation points of the SQUID from the simultaneously measured modulation curves. Loaded data ('1' or '0') were successfully shifted from a stage to the next by a controlled current pulse injected to the bias lines located between the stages, and the corresponding correct data shifts were observed with the two read SQUIDs.

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Effect of an additional resistance on Shapiro steps of the Josephson junction (조셉슨 접합의 샤피로 계단특성에 대한 부가저항의 효과)

  • Shim, Woo-Seok;Cho, Won-Il;Song, I-Hun;Kim, Do-Hyun;Park, Gwang-Seo;Song, In-Sang
    • 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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    • v.9
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    • pp.223-228
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    • 1999
  • We have investigated the microwave properties of a high-T$_c$. superconducting Josephson junction by Shapiro step measurements. A Josephson junction was fabricated on the bicrystal MgO substrate using pulsed laser deposition method. We have measured Shapiro steps in the I-V characteristics under the irradiation of 1.36 cm wavelength up to 45 K and found inclined current steps above 50 K. In order to understand these results, we introduced an additional resistance connected in series to RSJ model. Using this modified RSJ model, we could explain the inclined current steps as a result of superposition of the junction and an additional resistance above certain temperatures. Also, we presented the received power of the Josephson junction above 50 K.

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Fabrications and measurements of single layer YBCO dc-SQUID magnetometers designed with parallel-loop pickup coil (Parallel-loop 검출코일을 가지는 단일층 YBCO dc-SQUID 자력계의 제작 및 특성 연구)

  • 유권규;김인선;박용기
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2003
  • We have designed and fabricated the single-layer high $T_{c}$ SQUID magnetometer consisting of a directly coupled grain boundary junction SQUID with an inductance of 100 pH and 16 nested parallel pickup coils with the outermost dimension of 8.8 mm ${\times}$ 8.8 mm. The magnetometer was formed from a YBCO thin film deposited on an STO(100) bicrystal substrate with a misorientation angle of $30^{\circ}$. The SQUID magnetometer was further improved by optimizing the multi-loop pickup coil design for use in unshielded environments. Typical characteristics of the dc SQUID magnetometer had a modulation voltage of 40 $\mu\textrm{V}$ and a white noise of $30fT/Hz^{1}$2/. The SQUID magnetometer exhibited a 1/f noise level at 10 Hz reduced by a factor of about 3 compared with that of the conventional solid type pickup coil magnetometers and a very stable flux locked loop operation in magnetically disturbed environments.s.

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Construction and Operation of High-$T_c$ Scanning SQUID Microscope

  • Baeka, B.;Kim, Ho-chul;Khim, Z.G.;Lee, S.M.;Moon, S.H.;Oh, B.
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.20-25
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    • 1999
  • We constructed a high-$T_c$ scanning SQUID microscope (SSM) operating in the liquid nitrogen. We used a washer-type YBCO SQUID with inner and outer dimensions of $12{\mu}m$ and $36{\mu}m$, respectively, which was grown on the $SrTiO^3$ bicrystal substrate. The sample, rather than SQUID, was scanned using two stepping motors. We also developed readout electronics, stepping motor controller, and the software for system control and data display. We took images of various samples using our SSM and found that the spatial resolution is about $40{\mu}m$ and noise level is lower than $10^{-7}T/{\surd}Hz$ at 100 Hz and higher at lower frequencies. The noise level was much higher than that of a typical SQUID due to the other coupling from the electric parts. We present a simple argument on the inductive coupling between the sample and the SQUID which should be under-stood for the proper interpretation of the obtained images. By comparing the measured data with the simulation results the gap between the SQUID and the sample is estimated to be $40{\mu}m$.

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