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Experimental and Simulation Study of an Auxiliary Circuit to Improve Gain of the Quantum Flux Parametron

Willy Hioe, Mutsumi Hosoya, Eiichi Goto, Reiji Suda and Nobuo Miyamoto¹

(Received September 5, 1991; accepted for publication October 19, 1991)

The gain of parametron-type devices like the Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP) is reduced by non-uniformity which causes an apparent input bias. A method to improve gain by circuit design is considered. A booster, a dc-activated QFP attached to the output of a clock-activated QFP, improves gain by doubling total output current without significantly increasing minimum input current. The booster's operation is analyzed theoretically from its quasi-static behavior and compared to results obtained from low-speed experiments on fabricated test circuits and computer simulations at high-clock rates.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/30/3920/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.30.3920

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