High quality YBa2Cu3O7 Josephson junctions made by direct electron beam writing
- 20 September 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 63 (12) , 1696-1698
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.110688
Abstract
High‐Tc Josephson junctions have been fabricated by direct electron beam writing over YBa2Cu3O7 thin‐film microbridges, using scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) with an accelerating voltage of 80–120 kV. Annealing at 330–380 K increases Tc and Ic of the junctions and makes them more stable. In the operating range of a few degrees below Tc, the junctions show 100% magnetic field modulation of the critical current, microwave‐induced Shapiro steps oscillating according to the resistively shunted junction (RSJ) model, and RSJ current‐voltage characteristics with IcRn product up to 0.5–0.6 mV at 75 K and 0.3 mV at 77 K.Keywords
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