Superconducting Electronics

By Razanur
  • First measurement of superconduction

  • Nobel price for discovery of superconduction

    "for his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium"
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity#Nobel_Prizes_for_superconductivity
  • Proposal of dilution refrigerator

    The dilution refrigerator was first proposed by Heinz London in the early 1950s, and was experimentally realized in 1964 in the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium at Leiden University.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator
  • Proposal of BCS theory

    proposed by Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer in 1957
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS_theory
  • Postulation of Josephson effect

  • Exp. demonstration of the Dilution refrigerator

    The dilution refrigerator was first proposed by Heinz London in the early 1950s, and was experimentally realized in 1964 in the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium at Leiden University.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator
  • Invention of DC SQUID

    The DC SQUID was invented in 1964 by Robert Jaklevic, John J. Lambe, James Mercereau, and Arnold Silver of Ford Research Labs[3] after Brian David Josephson postulated the Josephson effect in 1962, and the first Josephson junction was made by John Rowell and Philip Anderson at Bell Labs in 1963.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
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    IBM superconducting logic program

    Work on superconducting devices and circuits based on the Josephson effect was begun at IBM in 1964 by Juri Matisoo, who reported the successful demonstration of a device he called the “tunneling cryotron” in 1966.
    http://snf.ieeecsc.org/sites/ieeecsc.org/files/RN28e-1.pdf
  • Invention of RF SQUID

    The RF SQUID was invented in 1965 by Robert Jaklevic, John J. Lambe, Arnold Silver, and James Edward Zimmerman at Ford.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID
  • Nobel price for BCS theory

  • Nobel price for Josephson effect

    "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively," and "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects"
  • Discovery of HTS

    High-temperature superconductors (abbreviated high-Tc or HTS) are materials that behave as superconductors at unusually high temperatures. The first high-Tc superconductor was discovered in 1986 by IBM researchers Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconductivity
  • Nobel price for discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials

    "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials"
  • Invention of YBCO (LiN HTS)

    Yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) is a family of crystalline chemical compounds, famous for displaying high-temperature superconductivity. It includes the first material ever discovered to become superconducting above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (77 K) at about 90 K.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yttrium_barium_copper_oxide
    This material is used in HT SQUIDs.
  • Proposal Cooper Pair box

    Superconducting charge qubits have been progressing quickly. They were first suggested in 1997 by Shnirman, and by 2001 coherent oscillations were observed.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_qubit
  • Observation of coherent oscilations in charge qubit

    Superconducting charge qubits have been progressing quickly. They were first suggested in 1997 by Shnirman, and by 2001 coherent oscillations were observed.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_qubit
  • Transmon developed

    The transmon was developed by Robert J. Schoelkopf, Michel Devoret, Steven M. Girvin and their colleagues at Yale University in 2007.