PROTECTIVE BARRIER LAYERS FOR SUPERCONDUCTING STRUCTURES

    公开(公告)号:US20200227618A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16247234

    申请日:2019-01-14

    申请人: Auburn University

    IPC分类号: H01L39/24 H01L39/02

    摘要: One or more dielectric barriers, such as, but not limited to, aluminum oxide (Al2O3), is used to isolate and protect super conductive (SC) structures. The SC structures are formed from SC materials, such as, but not limited to, niobium, from other surrounding materials. Using the barriers significantly reduces and/or eliminates the degradation of the superconducting properties of the SC structures during subsequent fabrication steps that employ elevated temperatures. As a result, incorporation of the barriers relaxes the need to use lower temperature fabrication processes and opens up possibilities for use of different more desirable processes and/or materials during subsequent fabrication steps.

    Applications of surface acoustic wave resonators coupled to a Josephson ring modulator

    公开(公告)号:US10715083B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-14

    申请号:US16385667

    申请日:2019-04-16

    发明人: Baleegh Abdo

    摘要: Superconducting device applications implemented with two surface acoustic wave resonators coupled to a Josephson ring modulator are provided. A method can include receiving, by a unitary Josephson mixer and from a first superconducting surface acoustic wave resonator of a superconducting device, a first surface acoustic wave signal that comprises one or more phonons that resonate at a first frequency, and receiving, by the unitary Josephson mixer and from a radio frequency source operatively coupled to the unitary Josephson mixer, a radio frequency control signal. The method can also include mixing the first surface acoustic wave signal and the radio frequency control signal and outputting a second surface acoustic wave signal based on mixing the first surface acoustic wave signal and the radio frequency control signal. The second surface acoustic wave signal can comprise one or more phonons that resonate at a second frequency.

    Method for producing a superconducting wire material lengthened

    公开(公告)号:US10706991B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-07

    申请号:US15547813

    申请日:2016-02-03

    摘要: There is provided a technique for producing a superconducting wire material in which the yield in a process of joining superconducting wire materials is improved over the related art. A method for producing a superconducting wire material lengthened by joining end portions of superconducting wire materials each having an oxide superconducting film, the end portions serving as joining surfaces, includes a step of disposing a micro-crystal of an oxide superconducting material on each of the joining surfaces of the oxide superconducting films, a pasting step of overlapping and pasting together the joining surfaces on which the micro-crystal is disposed, and a heat joining step of heating the overlapped joining surfaces to grow the micro-crystal, thereby forming, as a joining layer, a superconducting layer of the oxide superconducting material to join the joining surfaces to each other. A superconducting joining member for lengthening a superconducting wire material by performing heating while the superconducting joining member is pasted so as to bridge oxide superconducting thin films of two superconducting wire materials to join the two superconducting wire materials, wherein a micro-crystal of an oxide superconducting material is disposed on a joining surface.

    Co-planar waveguide flux qubits
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10650320B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-12

    申请号:US15764021

    申请日:2015-09-30

    申请人: GOOGLE LLC

    摘要: A qubit device includes an elongated thin film uninterrupted by Josephson junctions, a quantum device in electrical contact with a proximal end of the elongated thin film, and a ground plane that is co-planar with the elongated thin film and is in electrical contact with a distal end of the elongated thin film, in which the thin film, the quantum device, and the ground plane comprise a material that is superconducting at a designed operating temperature.