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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8055318 | Superconducting integrated circuit technology using iron-arsenic compounds A new family of superconducting materials with critical temperature up to 55 K have recently been discovered, comprising a crystal structure with atomic layers of iron and arsenic alternating with atomic layers of rare-earth oxide or alkaline earth. The present inve... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032196 | Josephson device, method of forming Josephson device and superconductor circuit A Josephson device includes a first superconducting electrode layer, a barrier layer and a second superconducting electrode layer that are successively stacked. The first and second superconducting electrode layers are made of an oxide superconductor material having... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7979101 | Electromagnetic wave detection element and electromagnetic wave detection device using the same It is possible to improve the negative resistance characteristic that can be expected when an SNS (superconductor-normal conductor-superconductor) structure is used as a structure unit for series connection. On the top of a first superconducting electrode, a second ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7715892 | Tunable, superconducting, surface-emitting teraherz source A compact, solid-state THz source based on the driven Josephson vortex lattice in a highly anisotropic superconductor such as Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 that allows cw emission at tunable frequency. A second order metallic Bragg gratin... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7610071 | Tunable, superconducting, surface-emitting teraherz source A compact, solid-state THz source based on the driven Josephson vortex lattice in a highly anisotropic superconductor such as Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 that allows cw emission at tunable frequency. A second order metallic Bragg gratin... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7336981 | Rare earth metal compounds for use in high critical temperature Josephson junctions Rare earth metal containing compounds of the formula Sr2YbSbO6 have been prepared with high critical temperature thin film superconductor structures, and can be fabricated into a superconductor insulator superconductor step edge Josephson junct... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7332851 | Piezoelectric/electrostrictive film type device and method of manufacturing the same A piezoelectric/electrostrictive film device is provided including a thin ceramic substrate and a piezoelectric/electrostrictive operating portion disposed on the substrate. The piezoelectric/electrostrictive operating portion includes a lower electrode film, a piez... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7323356 | LnCuO(S,Se,Te)monocrystalline thin film, its manufacturing method, and optical device or electronic device using the monocrystalline thin film Disclosed is a method of producing an LnCuOX single-crystal thin film (wherein Ln is at least one selected from the group consisting of lanthanide elements and yttrium, and X is at least one selected from the group consisting of S, Se and Te), which comprises the st... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7259934 | Pole tip trimmed magnetic recording head with minimal edge rounding In the present method for manufacturing a magnetic write head a focused ion beam (FIB) tool is utilized to mill the side edges of a P2pole, in order to provide a narrowed track width. Prior to milling, a thin film layer of material is deposited upon the P2... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7247603 | Charge dissipative dielectric for cryogenic devices A Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) is disclosed comprising a pair of resistively shunted Josephson junctions connected in parallel within a superconducting loop and biased by an external direct current (dc) source. The SQUID comprises a semiconduc... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7217584 | Bonded thin-film structures for optical modulators and methods of manufacture The present invention provides silicon based thin-film structures that can be used to form high frequency optical modulators. Devices of the invention are formed as layered structures that have a thin-film dielectric layer, such as silicon dioxide, sandwiched betwee... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7192661 | Rare earth metal compounds for use in high critical temperature thin film super-conducting antennas Rare earth metal containing compounds of the formula Sr2LuSbO6 have been prepared with high critical temperature thin film superconductor structures, and can be fabricated into an antenna, as well as being used in other ferroelectrics, pyroelec... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7109518 | Electronic element operable at room temperature using super-dielectric phenomenon This invention relates to an electronic element having an electron function which acts even at room temperature using a super dielectric effect. The element has a crystalline electron system, and uses a perovskite crystal in the ground state of a “macroscopic quan... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7063981 | Active pulse monitoring in a chemical reactor A method and apparatus for determining changes in a supply system, designed to supply repeated pulses of a vapor phase reactant to a reaction chamber is disclosed. One embodiment involves providing the reactant source, and a gas conduit to connect the reactant sourc... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7018852 | Methods for single qubit gate teleportation A method for performing a single-qubit gate on an arbitrary quantum state. An ancillary qubit is set to an initial state |I>. The data qubit is coupled to an ancillary qubit. The state of the ancillary qubit is measured, and the data qubit and the ancillary qubit ar... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015499 | Permanent readout superconducting qubit A solid-state quantum computing structure includes a d-wave superconductor in sets of islands that clean Josephson junctions separate from a first superconducting bank. The d-wave superconductor causes the ground state for the supercurrent at each junction to be dou... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6999806 | High temperature superconducting josephson junctin, superconducting electronic device provided with the former and method of manufacturing high temperature superconducting josephson junction A Josephson junction having a barrier layer sandwiched by two superconductors wherein the superconductors include one or more elements selected from the group of Y, La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu, one or more elements selected from the group of Ba, Sr... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6984846 | Gradiometer-based flux qubit for quantum computing and method therefor A qubit (quantum bit) circuit includes a superconducting main loop that is electrically-completed by a serially-interconnected superconducting subloop. The subloop includes two Josephson junctions. A first coil provides a first flux that couples with the main loop b... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6958487 | Device for generating a constant voltage and method for fabricating the same A mesa-shaped superconducting-superlattice structure is formed and adhered with epoxy onto a dielectric substrate where plural superconducting layers and plural insulating layers are naturally and alternately stacked. A λ/4 micro strip line (which means the length ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6943136 | Superconducting structure A superconductive structure including a dielectric oxide substrate, a thin buffer layer of a superconducting material thereon; and, a layer of a rare earth-barium-copper oxide superconducting film thereon the thin layer of yttrium-barium-copper oxide, the rare earth... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6839578 | Method of forming high temperature superconducting Josephson junction A method of forming a novel high temperature superconducting Josephson junction which is capable of achieving a formation of a Josephson junction having high characteristics conveniently and quickly without necessitating costly micromachining facilities. Two high te... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6815708 | Optical superconducting device An optic superconducting circuit element (10) is disclosed that is operable to transmit and receive on an identical chip an electromagnetic wave having frequencies in an extended frequency band ranging from microwave to THz frequency bands and with high sensi... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6784451 | Multi-junction phase qubit In one embodiment, a two-junction phase qubit includes a superconducting loop and two Josephson junctions separated by a mesoscopic island on one side and a bulk loop on another side. The material forming the superconducting loop is a superconducting material with a... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6734454 | Internally shunted Josephson junction device A Josephson junction has inherent resistance which effectively shunts the junction and thereby obviates a separate shunt resistor and thus reduces surface area in an integrated circuit including a plurality of Josephson junctions. The Josephson junction comprises a ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6719924 | Superconducting device and method of manufacturing the same There is provided a superconducting device including a substrate, a first superconductor layer supported by the substrate and containing Ln, AE, M and O, and a second superconductor layer containing a material represented by a formula of (Yb1−yLn′ | 04/13/2004 |
| 6649929 | Quantum computing with d-wave superconductors A method and structure for a d-wave qubit structure includes a qubit disk formed at a multi-crystal junction (or qubit ring) and a superconducting screening structure surrounding the qubit. The structure may also include a superconducting sensing loop, wh... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6635368 | HTS film-based electronic device characterized by low ELF and white noise A film-based HTS device comprises a substrate and a superconducting film. A peripheral portion of the film is a-axis-aligned material which is so situated on the substrate as to describe a-b planar barriers which are perpendicular to the substrate and whi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6605822 | Quantum phase-charge coupled device A method for performing a quantum computing entanglement operation between a phase qubit and a charge qubit. A coherent connection between the phase qubit and the charge qubit is provided. The coherent connection allows the quantum state of the phase qubi... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6563311 | Quantum computing method using magnetic flux states at a josephson junction A solid-state quantum computing structure includes a d-wave superconductor in sets of islands that clean Josephson junctions separate from a first superconducting bank. The d-wave superconductor causes the ground state for the supercurrent at each junctio... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6563310 | Quantum computing method using Josephson junctions between s-wave and d-wave superconductors A solid-state quantum computing structure includes a set of islands that Josephson junctions separate from a first superconducting bank. A d-wave superconductor is on one side of the Josephson junctions (either the islands' side or the bank's side), and a... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6495854 | Quantum computing with d-wave superconductors A method and structure for a d-wave qubit structure includes a qubit disk formed at a multi-crystal junction (or qubit ring) and a superconducting screening structure surrounding the qubit. The structure may also include a superconducting sensing loop, wh... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6459097 | Qubit using a Josephson junction between s-wave and d-wave superconductors A solid-state quantum computing structure includes a set of islands that Josephson junctions separate from a first superconducting bank. A d-wave superconductor is on one side of the Josephson junctions (either the islands' side or the bank's side), and a... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6372368 | Superconducting regular current interval voltage step element and superconducting device An oxide superconducting element is formed on a substrate 10 by a layered structure 30 formed of oxide superconducting thin-film and a non-superconducting thin-film layers. The element is a superconducting regular current interval voltage step element. Th... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6353234 | Layered arrangement and component containing the latter The invention concerns a layered arrangement comprising at least one layer based on a high-temperature superconductive material with at least one unit cell having a CuO2 plane, the layer being connected to a non-supeconductive layer. A modified... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6348699 | Josephson junction array device, and manufacture thereof A superconductive device is disclosed, which has specific characteristics of a generator and/or detector of sub-millimeter wave length radiation, comprising a two-dimensional lateral array of mesas (column-shaped elements) each containing vertically stack... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6324413 | Superconductor Josephson junction A lanthanum aluminate (LaAlO3) substrate on which thin films of layered perovskite copper oxide superconductors are formed. Lanthanum aluminate, with a pseudo-cubic perovskite crystal structure, has a crystal structure and lattice constant that... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6320369 | Superconducting current measuring circuit having detection loop A superconducting current measuring circuit is provided with a detection loop through which a current flows by the influence of a magnetic field generated by a measurement target current. The detection loop contains a superconductor. The superconducting c... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6275716 | High critical temperature superconductors in the system La3-ZMezBa3Ca1-vNcvCu7O16+x where Me=a rare earth or alkaline metal ion and Nc is a Mg, Cd ion Compounds of the of the general formula La3-z Mez Ba3 Ca1-v Ncv Cu7 O16+x, wherein Me can be a rare earth metal or an alkaline metal ion selected from the group consisting of ytt... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6191073 | Series of layers and component containing such The invention relates to a series of layers containing at least one layer on the basis of REBa2 CU3 O7-Z or with a comparable crystallographic structure, wherein said layer is connected to a non-superconductive layer. The ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188919 | Using ion implantation to create normal layers in superconducting-normal-superconducting Josephson junctions A SNS Josephson junction (10) is provided for use in a superconducting integrated circuit. The SNS junction (10) includes a first high temperature superconducting (HTS) layer (14) deposited and patterned on a substrate (18), such that the first HTS layer ... | 02/13/2001 |
