Diode devices based on superconductivity
AssigneePsiquantum, Corp.
InventorsFaraz Najafi, Syrus Ziai
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Abstract
An electronic device (e.g., a diode) is provided that includes a substrate and a patterned layer of superconducting material disposed over the substrate. The patterned layer forms a first electrode, a second electrode, and a loop coupling the first electrode with the second electrode by a first channel and a second channel. The first channel and the second channel have different minimum widths. For a range of current magnitudes, when a magnetic field is applied to the patterned layer of superconducting material, the conductance from the first electrode to the second electrode is greater than the conductance from the second electrode to the first electrode.
Claims16
An electronic device, comprising:
- a substrate;
- a patterned layer of superconducting material disposed over the substrate, the patterned layer forming:
- a first electrode;
- a second electrode;
- and
- an eccentric loop, of non-uniform width, coupling the first electrode with the second electrode;
- wherein, for a range of current magnitudes, when a magnetic field is applied to the patterned layer of superconducting material, the conductance from the first electrode to the second electrode is greater than the conductance from the second electrode to the first electrode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.