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HTS Multilayer Process Development for Digital Circuits

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Physics and Materials Science of High Temperature Superconductors, IV

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Digital circuits based on High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have the potential for offering operation at higher speed, and lower power dissipation than semiconductor circuits, while offering unprecedented performance advantages attributable to the unique quantum mechanical nature of the superconducting state. In order to fully realize this potential, it is necessary to develop a circuit process which integrates reproducible Josephson junctions into epitaxial multilayers. This paper discusses some of the materials and fabrication issues involved in the development of such a process.

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Forrester, M.G. et al. (1997). HTS Multilayer Process Development for Digital Circuits. In: Kossowsky, R., Jelinek, M., Novak, J. (eds) Physics and Materials Science of High Temperature Superconductors, IV. NATO ASI Series, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5732-2_20

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