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Howard A Wilcox

Richard Swart Hughes

George L Kerber

Edward C Jelks

Planar superconducting-normal-superconducting (SNS) Josephson microbridges nd superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) with bridge widths of about 0.2 microns and lengths of about 0.1 micron or less are fabricated with the aid of a technique referred to as 'shadow evaporation'. The procedure permits the submicron dimensions to be set by edge film thickness and slant evaporation angle, both of which can be accurately measured. Microbridges have been constructed with vanadium banks or electrodes and gold-titanium bridges, although other materials can be used including superconducting metals for the bridge. It is expected that a refined version of this technique would be suitable for repeated batch fabrication of single and multiple Josephson microbridges.

Optical lithographic technique for fabricating submicron-sized Josephson

A nonresonant acoustic projector especially suited to the creation of low frequency (0-100 Hz, approximately) acoustic signals is provided, this projector including a housing and a rocker arm which is mounted within the housing on a pivotal transverse axis fixed with respect to the housing. At least one piston is sealably mounted in a wall of the housing so that one face of the piston is directed exteriorally and the other face of the piston is directed interiorally with respect to the housing. The inner piston face is connected to a piston push rod which extends perpendicularly to the piston face into the housing, the inner end of this piston push rod being pivotally connected to the rocker arm at a point offset from the rocker arm pivotal axis. A power drive device is connected to the rocker arm at a second offset location for the purpose of rocking the rocker arm in an oscillatory manner about its pivotal axis, wherefore the attached piston push rod forces the piston into reciprocatory movement directed along the axis of the piston push rod. Various power drive devices are described hereinbelow which result in many desirable embodiments of the invention.

Low frequency nonresonant acoustic projector

A rapid laser scanning system utilizing an optical grating coupler (OGC) reby the angle at which an incident laser beam is outputted therefrom may be varied by the imposition of an electric field on a thin film underlying the coupler at right angles to the path of the laser beam through the thin film.

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Howard A Wilcox