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ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF THE EMISSION FROM THE INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION IN PIE-SHAPED WEDGE TRIANGULAR BSCCO MESAS

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Date Issued:
2015
Abstract/Description:
The purpose of this thesis is to determine the radiation patterns from an acute isosceles triangular superconducting mesa modeled by a pie-shaped geometry. The terahertz band lies between the microwave and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spec- trum. The terahertz radiation from atomic-scale layered superconducting mesas is caused by the tunneling of electron pairs in the ac-Josephson effect. To determine the terahertz power radiated per unit solid angle of an acute isosceles triangular superconducting mesa, a model was employed in which the shape of the mesa is approximated as a pie-shaped wedge. This model is shown to have an accuracy of about 1%. Using Love's Equivalency Principle, the current caused by the Josephson effect is then assumed to be on the edges of the mesa. Since in the mesas used for experiments the electric field is in the direction of the current, it is parallel to the boundary of the sample. Hence, we want the TM modes, and that requires the magnetic field to be transverse to the boundary. We thus require that the tangential component of the magnetic field parallel at the boundary vanishes. Love's equivalency principle provides the easiest and most straight forward way to satisfy this condition. The surface electric current density was modeled by comparing the magnetic vector potential re- sulting from the modeled edge current with that given by a standard volume average integration technique. The surface current density that provided the best approximation to the bulk average was used and the radiation patterns were plotted using Mathematica software.
Title: ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF THE EMISSION FROM THE INTRINSIC JOSEPHSON JUNCTION IN PIE-SHAPED WEDGE TRIANGULAR BSCCO MESAS.
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Name(s): Morales, Manuel, Author
Klemm, Richard, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2015
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this thesis is to determine the radiation patterns from an acute isosceles triangular superconducting mesa modeled by a pie-shaped geometry. The terahertz band lies between the microwave and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spec- trum. The terahertz radiation from atomic-scale layered superconducting mesas is caused by the tunneling of electron pairs in the ac-Josephson effect. To determine the terahertz power radiated per unit solid angle of an acute isosceles triangular superconducting mesa, a model was employed in which the shape of the mesa is approximated as a pie-shaped wedge. This model is shown to have an accuracy of about 1%. Using Love's Equivalency Principle, the current caused by the Josephson effect is then assumed to be on the edges of the mesa. Since in the mesas used for experiments the electric field is in the direction of the current, it is parallel to the boundary of the sample. Hence, we want the TM modes, and that requires the magnetic field to be transverse to the boundary. We thus require that the tangential component of the magnetic field parallel at the boundary vanishes. Love's equivalency principle provides the easiest and most straight forward way to satisfy this condition. The surface electric current density was modeled by comparing the magnetic vector potential re- sulting from the modeled edge current with that given by a standard volume average integration technique. The surface current density that provided the best approximation to the bulk average was used and the radiation patterns were plotted using Mathematica software.
Identifier: CFH0004762 (IID), ucf:45345 (fedora)
Note(s): 2015-05-01
B.S.
Sciences, Dept. of Physics
Bachelors
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Subject(s): Terahertz
Superconductivity
BSCCO
Mesa
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004762
Restrictions on Access: public
Host Institution: UCF

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