Fabrication of rhenium Josephson junctions

Rhenium is a superconductor with a relatively weak tendency to oxidize, which is advantageous in superconducting quantum circuit and qubit applications. In this work, Re/A1-A1Ox/Re Josephson tunnel junctions were fabricated using a selective film-etching process similar to that developed in Nb trilayer technology. The Re films had a superconducting transition temperature of 4.8 K and a transition width of 0.2 K. The junctions were found to be highly reproducible using the fabrication process and their characteristics had good quality with a low leakage current and showed a superconducting gap of 0.55 meV.     

A digital filtering scheme for SQUID based magnetocardiography

Considering the properties of slow change and quasi-periodicity of magnetocardiography （MCG） signal, we use an integrated technique of adaptive and low-pass filtering in dealing with two-channel MCG data measured by high Tc SQUIDs. The adaptive filter in the time domain is based on a noise feedback normalized least-mean-square （NLMS） algorithm, and the low-pass filter with a cutoff at 100Hz in the frequeucy domain characterized by Caussian functions is combined with a notch at the power line frequency. In this way, both relevant and irrelevant noises in original MCG data are largely eliminated. The method may also be useful for other slowly varying quasi-periodical signals.     

Fabrication of high-quality submicron Nb/Al--AlOx/Nb tunnel junctions

Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb tunnel junctions are often used in the studies of macroscopic quantum phenomena and superconducting qubit applications of the Josephson devices. In this work, we describe a convenient and reliable process using electron beam lithography for the fabrication of high-quality, submicron-sized Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb Josephson junctions. The technique follows the well-known selective Nb etching process and produces high-quality junctions with Vm=100 mV at 2.3 K for the typical critical current density of 2.2 kA/cm^2, which can be adjusted by controlling the oxygen pressure and oxidation time during the formation of the tunnelling barrier. We present the results of the temperature dependence of the sub-gap current and in-plane magnetic-field dependence of the critical current, and compare them with the theoretical predictions.     

Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb junctions with controllable critical current density for qubit application

Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb tunnel junctions with controllable critical current density Jc are fabricated using the standard selective Nb etching process.Tunnel barriers are formed in different oxygen exposure conditions (oxygen pressure P and oxidation time t),giving rise to Jc ranging from 100 A/cm2 to above 2000 A/cm2.Jc shows a familiar linear dependence on P × t in logarithmic scales.We calculate the energy levels of the phaseand flux-type qubits using the achievable junction parameters and show that the fabricated Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb tunnel junctions can be used conveniently for quantum computation applications in the future.     

用于大面积薄膜研究的微波等离子体装置

本文详细介绍了自行研制成的电子回旋共振微波等离子体装置的结构，性能和技术指标。并应用高斯计，法拉第筒和朗缪探针对装置的磁场位形发布和等离子的电流及密度进行了测量。     

Intrinsic tunneling study of underdoped Bi2Sr2-xLaxCuO6+δ superconductors

We report on a tunneling study of underdoped submicron Bi₂Sr_2-xLa_xCuO_6+δ (La-Bi2201) intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs), whose self-heating is sufficiently suppressed. The tunneling spectra are measured from 4.2 K up to the pseudogap opening temperature of T^* = 260 K. The gap value found from the spectral peak position is about 35 meV and has a weak temperature dependence both below and above the superconducting transition temperature of T_c = 29 K. Since the superconducting gap should have a value of 10-15 meV, our results indicate that the pseudogap (～35 meV) plays an important role in the underdoped La-Bi2201 intrinsic tunneling spectroscopy down to the lowest temperature of 4.2 K. However, the contribution of the superconducting gap can be separated by normalizing the spectra to the one near and above T_c, which shows that the IJJs can be a useful tool for the study of the electronic properties of the La-Bi2201 cuprate superconductors.     

利用高温超导直流量子干涉器件进行10$lt;sup$gt;-6$lt;/sup$gt; T量级磁场下核磁共振的研究

研究了水样品在10^-6 T量级磁场下的核磁共振谱.核磁共振信号由一个工作在液氮温度的高温超导直流量子干涉仪记录,测量在一个简易磁屏蔽室中进行.在7—70 μT的磁场范围内都观察到了15 ml水样品的核磁共振信号.相应的^1H的核磁共振频率为300—3000 Hz.在实验中获取的单次测量信噪比约为4,通过对信号的100次平均,信噪比可达到约40.进一步讨论了剩余磁场、预极化时间和采样时间对结果的影响.最后用数字滤波之后平均的方法初步得到了时域的自由感应衰减信号. 关键词： 超导量子干涉仪 核磁共振     

高温DC SQUID在无损检测中的应用

成功制备了用于无损检测的YBCO垫圈型DC SQUID,利用该器件建立了一套扫描SQUID显微镜无损检测装置,采用多极激励场的结构,引入高阶梯度,提高敏感元件-高温SQUID的平衡度,以及减小激励场的空间尺度来提高探测元件无损检测的灵敏度,利用该装置对圆孔缺陷的铝材料样品施加电磁激励并进行了二维磁场扫描成像,获得了较好的实验结果.     

基于高温超导量子干涉仪的超低场核磁共振成像研究

对基于高温超导量子干涉仪的低场核磁共振成像进行了较为系统的探索.首先对低场核磁共振系统进行了改进和完善,使得装置能够用于成像实验.在此基础上进行了一维、二维成像实验并取得了成功.二维成像分别采用了直接背投影成像法和傅里叶变换重建法.采用直接背投影方法成功获得了不同水样品分布的图形并与实物符合较好,同时还尝试对生物样品如青椒和芹菜的切片进行了成像,也得到了符合原物的二维投影像.尝试用傅里叶变换法对水样品进行成像,得到的图形能够显示样品轮廓,但信噪比偏低.对两种二维成像方法进行了比较和讨论.