A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device
Superconducting electronics based on Josephson junctions are used to sense and process electronic signals with minimal loss; however, they are ultrasensitive to magnetic fields, limited in their amplification capabilities, and difficult to manufacture. We have developed a 3-terminal, nanowire-based...
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| author | McCaughan, Adam N. Berggren, Karl K. |
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| description | Superconducting electronics based on Josephson junctions are used to sense and process electronic signals with minimal loss; however, they are ultrasensitive to magnetic fields, limited in their amplification capabilities, and difficult to manufacture. We have developed a 3-terminal, nanowire-based superconducting electrothermal device which has no Josephson junctions. This device, which we call the nanocryotron, can be patterned from a single thin film of superconducting material with conventional electron-beam lithography. The nanocryotron has a demonstrated gain of >20, can drive impedances of 100 kΩ, and operates in typical ambient magnetic fields. We have additionally applied it both as a digital logic element in a half-adder circuit, and as a digital amplifier for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors pulses. The nanocryotron has immediate applications in classical and quantum communications, photon sensing, and astronomy, and its input characteristics are suitable for integration with existing superconducting technologies. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/997562022-09-30T07:24:47Z A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device A Superconducting-Nanowire Three-Terminal Electrothermal Device McCaughan, Adam N. Berggren, Karl K. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics McCaughan, Adam N. Berggren, Karl K. Superconducting electronics based on Josephson junctions are used to sense and process electronic signals with minimal loss; however, they are ultrasensitive to magnetic fields, limited in their amplification capabilities, and difficult to manufacture. We have developed a 3-terminal, nanowire-based superconducting electrothermal device which has no Josephson junctions. This device, which we call the nanocryotron, can be patterned from a single thin film of superconducting material with conventional electron-beam lithography. The nanocryotron has a demonstrated gain of >20, can drive impedances of 100 kΩ, and operates in typical ambient magnetic fields. We have additionally applied it both as a digital logic element in a half-adder circuit, and as a digital amplifier for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors pulses. The nanocryotron has immediate applications in classical and quantum communications, photon sensing, and astronomy, and its input characteristics are suitable for integration with existing superconducting technologies. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award 1128222) National Science Foundation (U.S.). Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering (iQuISE) program (Award 0801525) 2015-11-09T15:45:44Z 2015-11-09T15:45:44Z 2014-09 2014-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1530-6984 1530-6992 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99756 McCaughan, Adam N., and Karl K. Berggren. “A Superconducting-Nanowire Three-Terminal Electrothermal Device.” Nano Lett. 14, no. 10 (October 8, 2014): 5748–5753. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7453-9031 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8553-6474 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl502629x Nano Letters Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf American Chemical Society (ACS) arXiv |
| spellingShingle | McCaughan, Adam N. Berggren, Karl K. A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device |
| title | A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device |
| title_full | A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device |
| title_fullStr | A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device |
| title_short | A Superconducting-Nanowire 3-Terminal Electronic Device |
| title_sort | superconducting nanowire 3 terminal electronic device |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99756 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7453-9031 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8553-6474 |
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