摘要:
A Josephson transmission line device comprising a Josephson transmission line consisting of a pair of superconducting layers and a junction layer disposed between the superconducting layers to constitute a Josephson junction; a fluxon stopping position constituted by at least one resistor element in at least a part of the Josephson transmission line; a fluxon driving current source connected to the resistor element; a fluxon generating current source connected to the Josephson transmission line for generating fluxons therein; and an output circuit for extracting the fluxons generated in the Josephson transmission line as output signals. Fluxons generated in the Josephson transmission line can be made to stop at and depart from the stopping positions by selective application of fluxon driving current. Therefore, the Josephson transmission line can, alone or in combination with other such lines, be made to operate as compact, high-speed, low power-dissipation Josephson electronic circuit devices capable of functioning as logic circuits, memories, pulse generators, etc.
摘要:
Disclosed is a fluxoid type superconducting logic element essentially comprising a pair of SQUIDs connected with each other so as to put one of said SQUIDs into its "firing state" and the other into its "extinction state" in response to an input signal in the form of magnetic flux, thereby representing a binary digit at its output terminals.
摘要:
A superconducting circuit for performing a logic operation and producing an output indicative of the result of the logic operation with a logic amplitude suitable for processing by an external circuit, is provided by a Josephson processing circuit which performs the logic operation and produces an output logic signal with a first logic amplitude, a voltage amplification circuit which is supplied with the output logic signal from the Josephson processing circuit and produces an output signal having a second logic amplitude which is substantially larger than the first logic amplitude, and an impedance conversion circuit which is supplied with the output signal of the voltage amplification means and produces the output of the superconducting circuit, with an output impedance suitable for transferring to the external circuit. The voltage amplification circuit includes a plurality of superconducting quantum devices connected in series and produces the output signal of the second logic amplitude as a sum of the voltage transitions caused in response to the respective transitions of the Josephson junctions included therein. The impedance conversion circuit provides a high input impedance such that the operation of the voltage amplification circuit is not influenced by the current associated with the output signal to the impedance conversion circuit.
摘要:
This is a superconducting digital logic amplifier for interfacing superconductor circuits with semiconductor circuits. It provides a gigahertz amplifier to convert low voltage superconducting logic signals to higher voltage signals, suitable for semiconductor signal processing circuits. It may, for example, provide a factor of ten voltage gain to raise the 2.5 mV Josephson logic signals of conventional metallic superconductor circuitry to 25 mV signals for input into inexpensive semiconductor amplifiers which, in turn, can power semiconductor logic circuitry. Generally, it utilizes a first series string of Josephson junctions in series with an input Josephson junction to provide a series combination which is then connected in parallel with a second string of higher critical current Josephson junctions. The input signal is introduced between the first series string and the input Josephson junction, and the output terminal is connected at the common connection opposite the input Josephson junction. A pulsed DC current source is also connected at the common connection with the output terminal. The current from Josephson junction logic circuitry is introduced through the input Josephson junction, exceeding its critical current and switching this Josephson junction to the resistive state, the combined input and current from the DC current source, then switch the Josephson junctions in the second series to the resistive state, and the DC current source finally switches Josephson junctions in the first string to the resistive state, giving an output voltage of the sum of all of the voltages across the Josephson junctions in the series strings. Thus, with nine Josephson junction in the first series string, plus the input Josephson junction in series with the first series string, and with ten Josephson junctions in the second series string, for example, the amplifier provides a factor of 10 in voltage between its input and output.
摘要:
A superconducting circuit including at least two DC SQUID stages integrated on the same superconducting chip and coupled by a circuit providing efficient transfer of current from the first SQUID stage to the second SQUID stage with large bandwidth. Each SQUID stage is comprised of a superconducting loop having at least two Josephson devices therein, there being shunt resistors across the Josephson devices to render them nonhysteretic. The coupling means between stages is directly connected to the shunt resistors of the first stage and includes a transmission line and an impedance circuit for matching the impedance of the transmission line, where the impedance circuit provides a real impedance over a large frequency range up to approximately the frequency of Josephson oscillation of the Josephson devices in DC SQUID. Feedback from the second SQUID stage to the first SQUID stage improves the input dynamic range and linearity of the circuit.
摘要:
A Josephson logic gate device comprises a closed loop of four Josephson junctions, a gate line and a ground line connected to the closed loop at symmetrically opposite points, and a control line connected to the closed loop at the intermediate joint between the gate line and ground line. This logic gate produces a switching function in which the gate current fed to the gate line is steered from the gate to the load by the transition between the zero-voltage state and the voltage state of the device when a control current is supplied into the control line.
摘要:
A waveform transition sensitive Josephson junction circuit having sense bus and logic applications is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a device capable of carrying Josephson current is shunted by a utilization circuit. Current flowing in the device is diverted to the utilization circuit in response to only one of a pair of transitions of a pulsed input applied to the device. On one transition of the applied pulsed input current, a current is induced in a current path which follows the input until the threshold of a switchable device in the current path is exceeded. The switchable device switches and the induced current drops to zero. If the current generated by the transition is in the opposite direction to current in the Josephson device, the Josephson device remains in its unswitched state. On the other transition of the pulsed input, the induced current follows the input and appears as an oppositely directed current in the Josephson device causing it to switch and deliver current to the utilization circuit. The switching of the switchable device when its threshold is exceeded reduces the induced current to zero. The current applied to the Josephson device and the input applied thereto may both be derived from pulsed sources with the Josephson devices of the circuit operating in latching or self-resetting modes.
摘要:
A quantum interference Josephson junction logic device is disclosed which comprises three or more junctions connected in parallel which are capable of carrying Josephson current and includes means integral with at least one of the junctions for carrying a larger maximum Josephson current than the remaining junctions. This integral means includes means for carrying a maximum Josephson current which is twice as large as the maximum Josephson current in the remaining junctions. While the spacing between the lobes of the threshold curve (I.sub.m vs. I.sub.c) is increased over that of a two junction interferometer by adding another junction resulting in an increased operating region in which logic circuits switch to the voltage state, good current gains with large lobe separation could not be achieved by the mere addition of junctions. Current gain with large lobe separation is obtained if the two outer junctions having a zero field threshold current, I.sub.o, are connected via an inductance, L, to the center junction with a maximum Josephson current, 2I.sub.o. The gain is maximized if the gate current, I.sub.g, is fed into the device through inductances, L.sub.p, having a value of inductance approximately equal to 3L in the center of inductances L which are disposed between pairs of junctions forming a symmetrical dual feed. Increased gain and operating range can be achieved using the symmetrical dual feed and interferometer arrangements where the maximum Josephson current in all the junctions thereof is the same.