Session L - Poster Session.
INVITED session, Tuesday evening, August 26
, Cowell Dining Hall
Josephson-coupled multilayers are multilayers of superconducting and insulating materials with Josephson coupling between the layers. These structures have very promising applications as active switching devices in ultra high speed superconducting microelectronic circuitry, as well as high frequency oscillators. An essential key to their applied use is to understand their switching properties, or the transient response. A novel model has been developed which treats the charge on the layer interface planes of the multilayer as a dynamic variable, whose evolution is det ermined via the interlayer charge-current equations. With the time-domain current responses of both the superconducting and insulating layers included, a fully consistent set of coupled integro-differential equations has been obtained that describe the time evolution of the layer charge s and voltages, allowing a proper assessment of the switching dynamics of the multilayer as a whole. In this paper I describe the numerical treatment of this novel model and the dynamics which result.