Study and operating conditions of HTS Josephson arrays for metrological application

✍ Scribed by A. Sosso; V. Lacquaniti; D. Andreone; R. Cerri; A.M. Klushin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Volume: 435
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-4534
• DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2006.01.029

✦ Synopsis

We report an experimental study of metrological properties of high-temperature superconductor arrays, made of shunted bicrystal YBCO Josephson junctions. The work is mainly based on a direct comparison against a low temperature array. Owing to the high sensitivity of the measurements, we observed at nanovolt level the changes in the HTS array voltage on a step. A precise estimate of the dependence of the HTS array step width on operating conditions was obtained. Differences were observed with respect to the results of low sensitivity techniques, confirming that our method is necessary in the study of HTS arrays for metrology. The high sensitivity analysis was also applied in the derivation of the temperature dependence of the critical current, providing insights on the behavior of the HTS array.