A NEW 3-TERMINAL VORTEX FLOW DEVICE

Part of the reason for the failure of magnetically controlled Abrikoso v vortex flow devices has been low magnetic coupling coefficients, com bined with pinning: control currents tend to drive the control electro de normal before sufficient flux is coupled to the flux flow channel t o overcome pinning, We have observed that interesting devices may use direct injection of flux, without an isolated control electrode, Exper imental studies using opposite polarity currents show dramatic effects in device characteristics; simulations show that these effects are ma nifestations of vortex interactions.