Conference paper

Publication year: 2003

Pages: 915-918

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volume number: 13

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 1051-8223

eISSN: 1558-2515

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2003.814081

Conference: Applied Superconductivity Conference

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Abstract: 

For a more wide-spread use of Josephson voltage standards, cryogen-free operation, by means of an appropriate closed-cycle refrigerator, is highly desirable. In this work we present a low-noise pulse tube cooler (PTC) that is capable to cool the voltage standard circuits to temperatures below 4 K.

As a low loss dielectric waveguide with a very small thermal conductivity a Teflon strip was used for the microwave transmission. The matched transition from the WR12 rectangular waveguide to the Teflon strip and vice versa was made using special exponential tapers.

Programmable 1 Volt 14 bit SINIS and 10 Volt SIS arrays assembled in the PTC operated well, i.e., demonstrated a similar performance to that measured in liquid helium. The Josephson junction arrays were integrated in coplanar strips instead of the commonly used microstriplines for the microwave transmission lines.

The 1 Volt SINIS array contained 8,192 Josephson junctions (JJ's). It generated an inherently stable Josephson voltage step of 1.19 V at a driving microwave frequency of 70 GHz. The step width was 150 muA and the critical current of the junctions was 550 muA. Similar results were obtained under liquid helium cooling conditions. In another experiment a 10 Volt voltage standard chip with 19,700 SIS JJ's was installed. It was possible to generate stable Shapiro steps at the 10 V level.

Harvard Citation style: Wende, G., Schubert, M., May, T., Fritzsch, L., Meyer, H., Thummes, G., et al. (2003) Josephson voltage standard circuit operation with a pulse tube cooler, IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 13(2), pp. 915-918. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2003.814081

APA Citation style: Wende, G., Schubert, M., May, T., Fritzsch, L., Meyer, H., Thummes, G., Kücükkaplan, Y., Qiu, L., Kohlmann, J., Niemeyer, J., Hofmeister, H., & Scheerer, J. (2003). Josephson voltage standard circuit operation with a pulse tube cooler. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 13(2), 915-918. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2003.814081