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A blue Josephson pulse-generator chip is wire-bonded to a green circuit board, with a 5-millimeter scale bar.
L. Howe et al. / CC BY 4.0
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Josephson pulse-generator chip

A Josephson pulse-generator chip used in NIST’s 2022 transmon-control study.

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NIST
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Not supplied by source

Published March 25, 2022; exact capture date unknown. Related historical digital-control hardware.

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L. Howe, M. A. Castellanos-Beltran, A. J. Sirois, D. Olaya, J. Biesecker, P. D. Dresselhaus, S. P. Benz, and P. F. Hopkins
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CC BY 4.0

L. Howe et al. / CC BY 4.0

Cropped to the photographic panel of Figure 1(c), retaining the original 5 mm scale bar, and converted to WebP. No upscaling, retouching or generated elements.

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