XXVI International Symposium "Nanophysics and Nanoelectronics", Nizhny Novgorod, March 14 - March 17, 2022
Superconductivity

Experimental study of elements of a Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier on SQUIDS chains

R. A. Yusupov, L. V. Filippenko, M. Yu. Fominskii, V. P. Koshelets

Kotelnikov Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: The issues of designing a Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier (JTWPA) based on a well-established technology of superconducting microcircuits with given and controlled parameters based on high-quality Nb–AlO$_x$–Nb tunnel junctions are considered. This technology has been adapted and optimized to obtain structures with the required parameters and circuits with large number of tunnel junctions. To advance the technology, the basic elements of a promising JTWPA have been devel-oped, manufactured and studied. In direct current measurements, a number of super-conducting elements parameters were experimentally determined; these parameters are required for designing a JTWPA chips for microwave measurements. An original design of JTWPA based on a chain of SQUIDs in a coplanar line has been developed for implementation using the IRE niobium technology; the parameters of the main elements of the JTWPA have been determined.

Keywords: Josephson travelling-wave parametric amplifiers (JTWPA), Josephson metamaterials (JMM), Josephson junctions (JJS), cold amplifier, coplanar lines, quantum noise, SIS, SQUIDS.

Received: 29.04.2022
Revised: 29.04.2022
Accepted: 12.05.2022

DOI: 10.21883/FTT.2022.09.52804.13HH

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