Superconductor ICs: the 100-GHz second generation

Autor: J.M. Rowell, E.K. Track, D.K. Brock
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: IEEE Spectrum. 37:40-46
ISSN: 1939-9340
0018-9235
DOI: 10.1109/6.887595
Popis: In the shadow of high-temperature superconductivity, 35 years of research in low-temperature superconductor ICs quietly comes to fruition, yielding the world's fastest circuits. They are made with a superconducting metal, niobium, rather than a compound semiconductor. Their exotic technology is based on Josephson junction devices and the transmission of single quanta of magnetic flux along superconductor interconnects. This paper describes these ICs and also a logic family called rapid single flux quantum (RSFQ) logic, which is based on the storage and transmission of quanta of magnetic flux.
Databáze: OpenAIRE