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Chin. Phys. B, 2017, Vol. 26(7): 078501    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/7/078501
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Bridge-free fabrication process for Al/AlOx/Al Josephson junctions

Ke Zhang(张珂)1, Meng-Meng Li(李蒙蒙)1, Qiang Liu(刘强)1, Hai-Feng Yu(于海峰)1,2, Yang Yu(于扬)1,2
1 National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
2 Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information & Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Abstract  

We fabricate different-sized Al/AlOx/Al Josephson junctions by using a simple bridge-free technique, in which only single-layer E-beam resist polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is exposed at low accelerate voltage (below 30 kV) and the size of junction can be varied in a large range. Compared with the bridge technique, this fabrication process is very robust because it can avoid collapsing the bridge during fabrication. This makes the bridge-free technique more popular to meet different requirements for Josephson junction devices especially for superconducting quantum bits.

Keywords:  Josephson junction      bridge-free technique      e-beam lithography      superconducting qubit  
Received:  07 March 2017      Revised:  05 April 2017      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  85.25.Cp (Josephson devices)  
  03.67.Lx (Quantum computation architectures and implementations)  
  85.25.Am (Superconducting device characterization, design, and modeling)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.2016YFA0301802) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.11474152,91321310,11274156,11504165,and 61521001).

Corresponding Authors:  Hai-Feng Yu     E-mail:  hfyu@nju.edu.cn

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Ke Zhang(张珂), Meng-Meng Li(李蒙蒙), Qiang Liu(刘强), Hai-Feng Yu(于海峰), Yang Yu(于扬) Bridge-free fabrication process for Al/AlOx/Al Josephson junctions 2017 Chin. Phys. B 26 078501

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