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MSE-438: Superconducting electronics: A materials perspective

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Lectures in this course (27)

Superconducting Electronics: Materials Perspective

Explores the behavior of Josephson junctions in different voltage states and the RSCJ model for real junctions.

Washboard potential: Describing real Josephson Junctions

Covers the washboard potential model for real Josephson Junctions and its comparison to a massive ball dynamics.

Ac-excitation of Josephson Junction currents

Explores ac-excitation of Josephson Junction currents, capacitance impact, thermal fluctuations, and SQUID operation in the voltage state.

High-Temperature Superconductors: Industrial Applications

Explores high-temperature superconductors and their industrial applications, focusing on the key role of Rebco in compact fusion reactors and high-field magnets.

Superconductors: Vortices and Pinning Systems

Explores superconductors, focusing on vortices, pinning systems, and critical current density optimization through wire drawing and heat treatment.

REBCO conductors for high field magnets

Explores REBCO coated conductors for high field magnets, emphasizing the need for further research and improved testing.

Superconducting Digital Electronics: Advantages and Challenges

Explores superconducting digital electronics, focusing on speed, power consumption, and historical developments in Cryotron and Josephson logic.

Superconducting Electronics: Materials Perspective

Covers the operation of the Josephson Atto Weber Switch, limitations of latching logic, and the advantages of Rapid Single Flux Quantum logic.

Quantum Computation: Basics and Harmonic Oscillator

Covers the basics of quantum computation, including qubits, Bloch sphere encoding, and harmonic oscillators in quantum systems.

Materials challenges in qubits

Explores qubit design, errors, decoherence sources, and material challenges in improving qubit performance.

Superconducting Electronics

Explores the paradigms, history, alloys, applications, standards, and recent developments of superconductors, highlighting their unique properties and broad utility.

What drives superconductivity

Explores the quantum-mechanical nature of superconductivity, covering basic quantum mechanics, Cooper pair formation, and the energy gap in superconductors.

Superconducting Shielding: Design and Properties

Explores superconducting shielding, the Meissner effect, macroscopic wave function, and single-spin detection in biological research.

Gauge Invariance: Electromagnetic Potentials

Explores gauge invariance, electromagnetic potentials, superfluid velocity, and superconductors' magnetic field expulsion.

Zero resistance: Superconductivity basics

Introduces the basics of superconductivity, including zero resistance, magnetic field expulsion, and critical current concepts.

Josephson effect

Explains the Josephson effect and the significance of the Josephson Junction in superconducting technology.

Josephson effect: Cooper pair tunneling

Explores the Josephson effect, where Cooper pairs tunnel through a thin barrier between superconductors, discussing physical quantum phases and different types of Josephson Junctions.

Josephson Coupling Energy

Covers Josephson coupling energy in superconducting systems and the behavior of Josephson junctions as inductors.

Extended Josephson Junctions: Modeling and Critical Current

Covers the magnetic thickness, short and long junctions, and critical current.

Josephson Junction Fabrication

Details the fabrication process of Josephson junctions, highlighting reliability and identical characteristics for quantum computation applications.