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Josephson Integrated Circuits

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Large Scale Integrated Circuits Technology: State of the Art and Prospects

Part of the book series: NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series ((NSSE,volume 55))

Abstract

Nineteen years ago, B. D. Josephson1 predicted a supercurrent at zero voltage between two superconducting metals, separated by a thin insulator. Today, 20–25 laboratories around the world are actively studying the possible exploitation of devices based on the Josephson effect. Although the promise of a very fast device (picosecond) at low power levels (microwatt) has yet to be realized in a computing system, usage of Josephson junctions as a voltage standard and an extremely sensitive magnetic-field detector is widespread. The attractions of Josephson devices are summarized in Table 1. The combination of a fast, low power circuit plus superconducting transmission lines offers the possibility of packing and interconnecting hundreds of thousands of circuits and hundreds of millions of memory bits into a volume very comparable to that occupied by the human brain;2 a feat unachievable with a high-performance semiconductor technology.

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Van Derveer, E.J. (1982). Josephson Integrated Circuits. In: Esaki, L., Soncini, G. (eds) Large Scale Integrated Circuits Technology: State of the Art and Prospects. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7645-0_23

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