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Title: Superconductor-normal-superconductor with distributed Sharvin point contacts

Patent ·
OSTI ID:869261
 [1];  [2]
  1. San Mateo County, CA
  2. Santa Clara County, CA

A non-linear superconducting junction device comprising a layer of high transient temperature superconducting material which is superconducting at an operating temperature, a layer of metal in contact with the layer of high temperature superconducting material and which remains non-superconducting at the operating temperature, and a metal material which is superconducting at the operating temperature and which forms distributed Sharvin point contacts with the metal layer.

Research Organization:
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FG03-86ER45245
Assignee:
Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, CA)
Patent Number(s):
US 5306705
OSTI ID:
869261
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (1)

Characterization of niobium point contacts showing Josephson effects in the far infrared journal September 1978