The phenomenon of superconductivity was discovered as early as 1911, but superconducting electronics was born only in the 1960s after the discovery of the Josephson effect. This effect was theoretically predicted in 1962, and then confirmed experimentally in 1964 in the work of Soviet physicists I. K. Yanson, V. M. Svistunov and I. M. Dmitrenko, who first observed the so-called Josephson generation. In 1973, Brian D. Josephson was awarded the Nobel Prize for predicting this effect.
Physical objects in which the Josephson effect occurs are now commonly referred to as Josephson junctions, or Josephson contacts, or Josephson elements. In order to imagine the role that Josephson elements play in superconducting electronics, we can draw a parallel between them and semiconductor - - junctions (diodes, transistors) – the element base of conventional semiconductor electronics.
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- Jose Alfredo Collazos Rozo (Author), 2020, Josephson contacts as a computer element base, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/991675
