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YBa2Cu3O (YBCO) films were fabricated by magnetron sputtering with modification of the substrate surface by preliminary topology masks. Formation features of Josephson junctions on bicrystal Zr1−xYxO2 (YSZ) substrates have been considered. The structural and electrical properties of such junctions were investigated. As a result, the presented technology allows us to fabricate YBCO structures on YSZ substrates with a buffer cerium dioxide (CeO2) layer where YBCO film sputtering is the final stage of structure formation. In particular, long Josephson junctions with good characteristics have been fabricated by this technology and measured, allowing us to achieve critical currents of 80 mA for 150 um junctions.

The current-voltage characteristics and critical current versus magnetic field dependence of long 24 [001]-tilt YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7Àd bicrystal grain-boundary junctions are studied both experimentally and theoretically. For the opposite magnetic field directions, the flux-flow steps with significantly different height and slope are observed. It is demonstrated that the most probable reason of this discrepancy is recently predicted asymmetry of spatial bias current distribution due to crystallographic anisotropy of bicrystal substrates [

The response of the Cold-Electron Bolometers (CEBs), integrated into a 2-D array of dipole antennas, has been measured by irradiation from YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO) 50 μm long Josephson junction into the THz region at frequencies from 0.1 to 0.8 THz. The possibility of controlling the amplitude-frequency characteristic is demonstrated by the external magnetic field in the traveling wave regime of a long Josephson junction. The YBCO junction has been formed on the bicrystal Zr1−xYxO2 (YSZ) substrate by magnetron sputtering and etching of the film. CEBs have been fabricated using an Al multilayer structure by a self-aligned shadow evaporation technique on Si substrate. Both receiver and oscillator have been located inside the same cryostat at 0.3 K and 2.7 K plates, respectively.

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