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Infrared Physics

All-Nb thin film microbridge-type Josephson junction for submillimeter-wave detection

Nobumitsu Hirose, Y. Harada, Matsuo Sekine, Shigeru Yoshimori, Mitsuo Kawamura

Published Oct 1, 1993• 0 citations
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10.1016/0020-0891(93)90078-l

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The Shapiro steps in the submillimeter wave (SMMW) region were measured in point-contact Josephson junctions made of a Nb strip with a sharpened edge and a YBaCuO thin film. The thin film was prepared by the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. The dependence of the Shapiro step width on the SMMW power was measured for the wavelength of 570.6 µm (525.4 GHz). The dependence was similar to that found in microbridges made of low T c superconductors. The first-order Shapiro step was observed for the wavelength of 232.9 µm (1.287 THz).
We have fabricated tunnel-type Josephson junctions with very small junction area by pressing the tip of a sharpened Nb wire onto a thinly oxidized Sn film, and studied their submillimeter-wave responses. It turns out that the junctions have a very high cutoff frequency, and are suitable for the investigation of the response to the submillimeter waves with the frequency higher than 1 THz. From the frequency and laser-power dependence of the Shapiro step, it is found that the tunnel-type junction shows much larger higher-order steps, and accordingly has much stronger nonlinearity than the bridge-type junction in the submillimeter-wave region. The large enhancement of the steps due to the Riedel singularity is also observed in the tunnel-type junction. In addition to the Shapiro steps, photon-assisted tunneling steps are observed clearly, reflecting the large and sharp gap structure in the dc IV curves of the tunnel-type junctions.