摘要:
A superconducting patch antenna array, operative at a temperature lower than or equal to that of liquid nitrogen, includes a superconducting mixer comprising at least one non-linear Josephson junction to transform the received high frequency signal to a lower intermediate frequency for purposes of reducing the transmission loss and thereby increasing the antenna performance.
摘要:
A superconducting device has a substrate and a superconducting film formed on the substrate. A surface of the substrate has a first surface portion of which a curvature is constant or changes continuously, a second surface portion of which a curvature is constant or changes continuously, and a third surface portion at which the first and second surface portions meet and at which the curvatures of the first and second surface portions become discontinuous. The superconducting film formed on the surface of said substrate has a grain boundary serving as a junction only in a portion corresponding to the third surface portion of the substrate.
摘要:
An oxide superconductor element, produced by forming a damaged region on a substrate surface by the Ga.sup.+ focusing ion beam method and then depositing an oxide superconductor thin-film over it, is characterized in that a NdBa.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-y (0.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.0.5) oxide superconductor is used in a tunnel junction having a tunneling barrier region with weak superconductivity.
摘要:
A superconductor junction material is disclosed which comprises a substrate of a single crystal, and at least flux flow element, and optionally at least one Josephson junction element, provided on the surface, each of the flux flow and Josephson junction elements being formed of a superconducting oxide layer having a weak link. The flux flow and Josephson junction elements are prepared by vacuum deposition at different oxygen partial pressures.
摘要:
A Josephson junction is disclosed which includes a substrate of a single crystal having a substantially flat surface, a wiring pattern of an oxide superconductor formed on the flat surface of the substrate, and an altered region formed having a width of 300 nm or less and formed in the wiring pattern to intersect the wiring pattern, the crystal orientations of the wiring pattern on both sides of the altered region being equal to each other. The Josephson junction may be prepared by a process including the steps of: (a) coating a surface of a substrate of a single crystal with a normal metal to form a protecting layer over the surface of the substrate; (b) irradiating a predetermined portion of the protecting layer with a focused ion beam so that an irradiated portion is formed in the substrate; (c) removing the protecting layer from the substrate; and (d) forming a wiring pattern of an oxide superconductor on the surface of the substrate from which the protecting layer has been removed such that the wiring pattern crosses the irradiated portion of the substrate, thereby forming an altered portion in the wiring pattern at a position above the irradiated portion.
摘要:
In a high frequency transmission line having a dielectric substrate and a conductor line which is provided on the dielectric substrate for allowing electric current to flow therethrough, the conductor line has a non-grain-boundary oxide superconductor layer with twin walls but without grain boundaries. The high frequency transmission line is in the form of a plane circuit. It is preferable that an oriented oxide superconductor layer is provided between the dielectric substrate and the non-grain-boundary oxide superconductor layer.
摘要:
In a superconductor mixer, a non-linear element is provided on a substrate. The non-linear element comprises at least one Josephson junction connected in series. An antenna pattern of superconductor, an intermediate frequency output pattern of superconductor, and a bias current pattern of superconductor are connected to the non-linear element. A signal high frequency wave (RF) and a local reference frequency wave (LO) are received by the antenna pattern and then absorbed in the non-linear element to obtain an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. Then, with applying a current to the series connected Josephson junction in the non-linear element from the bias current pattern, the intermediate frequency (IF) signal as a frequency signal of a difference between the signal high frequency wave (RF) and the local reference frequency wave (LO) is output to the intermediate frequency output pattern. At this time, by varying the current supplied from the bias current pattern, a phase of the output intermediate frequency (IF) signal is varied.
摘要:
The invention provides a wide frequency band high temperature superconductor mixer antenna which allows a superconductor feed line, which exhibits a high resistance loss in a high frequency region, to be used in a low frequency region with a low loss and which is provided with a same structure as a mixer which has a wide band twice or more the frequency of a millimeter or more wave while keeping a characteristic of a high integration array antenna, which makes most of the high integrity of superconductor feed lines. The wide frequency band high temperature superconductor mixer antenna includes one or a plurality of planar structure antenna patterns of the log-periodical type or the log-spiral type and a plurality of oxide superconductor thin film feed line wiring patterns formed on a same face of a main surface of a substrate, a central portion of each of the planar structure antenna patterns being formed from an oxide superconductor thin film on which a non-linear element part is provided.
摘要:
An oxide superconducting multilayered thin film structure having a laminated layer structure of oxide superconductor thin film layers and non-superconductor thin film layers constituted by a combination of material groups for making strain free interfaces among both thin film layers. For example, an oxide superconductor multilayered film constituted by a laminated layer structure where thin films of an oxide superconductor represented by the chemical formula of M'Ba.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-.delta. (M'; a rare earth element of Nd, Sm, Eu or the like or an alloy of these, .delta.; oxygen depletion amount) and thin films of an oxide represented by the chemical formula of M*Ba.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-.delta. (M*; an element of Pr, Sc or the like or an alloy of these, .delta.; oxygen depletion amount) are alternately stacked. The oxide thin films are thin films fabricated by a pulsed laser deposition process or a sputtering process. A Josephson device can be provided by using the multilayered film.
摘要:
A superconducting Josephson junction element including a first, a-axis oriented, superconductive metal oxide crystal grain having a first area of a {001} plane, and a second, c-axis oriented, superconductive metal oxide crystal grain having a second area of a {110} plane, wherein the first and second crystal grains are in contact with each other at the first and second areas to form a grain boundary therebetween.