Sk. Tolpygo et al., NORMAL-STATE PROPERTIES AND JOSEPHSON EFFECTS IN HTS WEAK LINKS PRODUCED BY ELECTRON-BEAM, IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity, 5(2), 1995, pp. 2521-2526
A description is given of the fabrication method and Josephson propert
ies of high temperature superconducting junctions produced by focused
electron beam writing. The nature of a weak link, I-V characteristics,
transition to flux flow, and magnetic field modulation are discussed
in some detail. The materials aspects such as the mechanism of e-beam
damage to HTS, threshold energy, junction stability, and some technolo
gical issues such as reproducibility and uniformity are also addressed
.