How to Use Josephson junction in a Sentence

Josephson junction

noun
  • The heart of this new synapse is a device called a magnetic Josephson junction.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2018
  • This setup acts as an atomic Josephson junction.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The current flowing across Josephson junctions is quantized—fixed to discrete values.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
  • This became known as the Josephson effect, and a switch based on the effect, the Josephson junction, soon followed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • For memory, two Josephson junction loops are connected together.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • The basic building block of superconducting logic and memory is the Josephson junction.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • Each superconducting qubit is an artificial atom containing one or more Josephson junctions.
    — Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Next, the researchers plan to connect multiple atomic Josephson junctions, creating full-fledged atomic circuits—a growing field known as atomtronics.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • One of the gates of these islands connects to the superconducting cavity built using Josephson junctions that allow quantum currents to flow and complete a microwave circuit.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Furthermore, the team exposed the Josephson junction to microwave electromagnetic radiation whose frequency is close to that of Wi-Fi signals.
    — Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Each physical qubit consists of two superconducting plates, which act as a capacitor, wired to components called Josephson junctions, which act as a special lossless, nonlinear inductor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
  • What’s more, a Josephson junction in such a configuration would expend energy in the range of just a millionth of a picojoule, considerably less than consumed by today’s silicon transistors.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • The Josephson junctions ensure that only two of those values (or their superpositions) are realistically accessible.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
  • To achieve tremendous speed, RSFQ used resistors to provide electrical biases to the Josephson junctions in order to keep them close to the switching threshold.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • The key was to leverage a setup known as a Josephson junction, pioneered by Nobel Laureate Brian Josephson back in 1962.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 2025
  • However, despite its importance, the microscopic processes inside a Josephson junction remain largely hidden.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • The basic building block of its circuits was a superconducting loop with Josephson junctions in it, known as a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • In 1983, Bell Telephone Laboratories researchers formed Josephson junctions out of niobium separated by thin aluminum oxide layers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • Over the next few years, groups at IBM and Bell Labs attempted to spot macroscopic tunnelling in devices called Josephson junctions, which are circuits made from two superconductors separated by a thin insulating barrier.
    — Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2025
  • As explored by historian Cyrus Mody, by 1973 IBM was working on building a superconducting supercomputer based on Josephson junctions.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
  • At the Autonomous University of Madrid, the researchers conducted experiments to fabricate a Josephson junction with a superconducting vanadium electrode on one side and an iron electrode on the other, with magnesium oxide as the barrier.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Researchers at the University of Buffalo teamed up with those in Spain, France, and China to demonstrate that a Josephson junction could be built with just one superconductor layer instead of two and in the process showed how commonly available iron could also be used for quantum applications.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • To observe the quantum mechanical motion of this macroscopic phase variable, the three scientists fabricated a device called the Josephson junction, which consists of two pieces of superconductors separated by an insulator layer thinner than 1/10,000 of a human hair.
    — Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Here, a tunneling electron microscope image shows a Josephson junction made with alpha-silicon insulator sandwiched between niobium titanium nitride superconductors, achieving a critical dimension of 210 nanometers.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 May 2024
  • Researchers at the University of Buffalo could add a ‘superconducting’ twist to magnetic hard drives and random access memories (RAMs) after succeeding in building a Josephson junction using only one superconductor instead of two.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Together, Bell Labs’ Josephson junctions and Moscow State University’s RSFQ rekindled interest in superconducting electronics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016

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