AC Josephson Voltage Standard: Progress Report - Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
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Progress toward a Josephson voltage standard for fast dc measurements and accurate ac waveform synthesis is described. A superconductor-normal-superconductor (SNS) junction process is used to make 5 mA critical current arrays with up to 32 768 junctions. With rf excitation at 11 GHz these arrays generate milliampere constant-voltage steps. A bias control circuit that provides output current amplification, transient suppression, and submicrosecond settling time is used with both superconductor-insulator-superconductor (SIS) and SNS junction arrays for fast, automated measurements of A/D converter linearity, a test for subnanovolt accuracy, waveform synthesis, and a preliminary measurement of the ac-dc difference of a thermal voltage converter.
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