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Josephson tunnel junctions are the centerpiece of almost any superconducting electronic circuit, including qubits. Typically, the junctions for qubits are fabricated using shadow evaporation techniques to reduce dielectric loss…

Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor (S-F-S) Josephson junctions were fabricated by making a narrow cut through a S-F double layer using direct writing by Focused Ion Beam (FIB). Due to a high resolution (spot size smaller than 10 nm)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 V. M. Krasnov , O. Ericsson , S. Intiso , P. Delsing , V. A. Oboznov , A. S. Prokofiev , V. V. Ryazanov

Superconducting qubits in today's quantum processing units are typically fabricated with angle-evaporated aluminum--aluminum-oxide--aluminum Josephson junctions. However, there is an urgent need to overcome the limited reproducibility of…

We have developed a novel fabrication process for ultra-small, full-epitaxial NbN Josephson junctions on a silicon (Si) substrate. A full-epitaxial NbN/AlN/NbN tri-layer was grown on a Si (100) wafer with a (200)-oriented TiN buffer layer.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-02 Wei Qiu , Hirotaka Terai

Planar Josephson junctions (JJs) based on InSb nanoflags have recently emerged as an intriguing platform in superconducting electronics. This letter presents the fabrication and investigation of superconducting quantum interference devices…

To increase integration scale of superconductor electronics, we are developing a new, SFQ7ee, node of the fabrication process at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In comparison to the existing SFQ5ee node, we increased the number of fully planarized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-22 Sergey K. Tolpygo , Ravi Rastogi , Terence Weir , Evan B. Golden , Vladimir Bolkhovsky

Increasing integration scale of superconductor electronics (SCE) requires employing kinetic inductors and self-shunted Josephson junctions (JJs) for miniaturizing inductors and JJs. We have been developing a ten-superconductor-layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-02 Sergey K. Tolpygo , Ravi Rastogi , David Kim , Terence J. Weir , Neel Parmar , Evan B. Golden

We investigate Magnetic Josephson Junction (MJJ) - a superconducting device with ferromagnetic barrier for a scalable high-density cryogenic memory compatible with energy-efficient single flux quantum (SFQ) circuits. The…

Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) that incorporate two superconductor/insulator/superconductor (SIS) Josephson junctions in a closed loop form the core of some of the most sensitive detectors of magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Taewan Noh , Andrew Kindseth , Venkat Chandrasekhar

The microscopic structure of ultra-thin oxide barriers often plays a major role in modern nano-electronic devices. In the case of superconducting electronic circuits, their operation depends on the electrical non-linearity provided by one…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-25 Timothy C. DuBois , Martin J. Cyster , George Opletal , Salvy P. Russo , Jared H. Cole

We present measurements of an amplifier based on a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with submicron Al-AlOx-Al Josephson junctions. The small junction size reduces their self-capacitance and allows for the use of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-19 M. P. DeFeo , P. Bhupathi , K. Yu , T. W. Heitmann , C. Song , R. McDermott , B. L. T. Plourde

By scanning with a $30\, \mathrm{keV}$ focused He ion beam (He-FIB) across YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_7$ (YBCO) thin film microbridges, we create Josephson barriers with critical current density $j_\mathrm{c}$ adjustable by irradiation dose $D$. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-04-30 B. Müller , M. Karrer , F. Limberger , M. Becker , B. Schröppel , C. J. Burkhardt , R. Kleiner , E. Goldobin , D. Koelle

We have fabricated and characterized asymmetric gap-engineered junctions and transmon devices. To create Josephson junctions with asymmetric gaps, Ti was used to proximitize and lower the superconducting gap of the Al counter-electrode. DC…

One of the practical limitations of solid-state superconducting quantum processors technology is frequency crowding due to low qubits fabrication reproducibility. Josephson junction 100 nm-scale nonlinear inductance of the qubits still…

Stencil mask lithography is an advanced technique for fully in-situ fabricating Josephson junctions, which is increasingly being used for multi-terminal Josephson junctions. This study provides information on the optimal mask design and…

Shadow evaporation is commonly used to micro-fabricate the key element of superconducting qubits - the Josephson junction. However, in conventional two-angle deposition circuit topology, unwanted stray Josephson junctions are created which…

Superconducting qubits based on Al/AlOx/Al Josephson junction are one of the most promising candidates for the physical implementation of universal quantum computers. Due to scalability and compatibility with the state-of-the-art…

Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…

An application-specific Josephson generator is being developed as an on-chip calibration source for single-microwave-photon detectors operating below $T \sim $100 mK in the frequency range from 110 to 170 GHz. The targeted calibration power…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-10-21 Behdad Jalali-Jafari , Sergey V. Lotkhov , Alexander B. Zorin

We define superconducting constrictions by ploughing a deposited Aluminum film with a scanning probe microscope. The microscope tip is modified by electron beam deposition to form a nano-plough of diamond-like hardness, what allows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Irmer , R. H. Blick , F. Simmel , W. Goedel , H. Lorenz , J. P. Kotthaus