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Superconducting chip used by NIST to define the volt. The chip contains an array of 3020 Josephson junctions and operates at liquid Helium temperatures. Microwave energy is fed to the junctions through the fin-guide on the left.

From nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/sp958-lide/315-318.pdf Figure 1

-- agr 13:10, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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