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IOP Publishing, Superconductor Science and Technology, 4(24), p. 045008

DOI: 10.1088/0953-2048/24/4/045008

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High quality factor HTS Josephson junctions on low loss substrates

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Abstract

We have extended the off-axis biepitaxial technique to produce YBCO grain boundary junctions on low loss substrates. Excellent transport properties have been reproducibly found, with remarkable values of the quality factor IcRn (with Ic the critical current and Rn the normal state resistance) above 10 mV, far higher than the values commonly reported in the literature for high temperature superconductor (HTS) based Josephson junctions. The outcomes are consistent with a picture of a more uniform grain boundary region along the current path. This work supports a possible implementation of grain boundary junctions for various applications including terahertz sensors and HTS quantum circuits in the presence of microwaves.