Abstract:
Tunneling barriers, in particular superconductive tunneling barriers (Josephson barriers), are prepared in a vacuum chamber maintained at a low atmospheric pressure using an oxygen glow discharge which produces stable and reproducible superconductive tunneling devices. To prepare a Pb-Pbx Oy-Pb barrier the first lead film is placed in a vacuum chamber and charged to a negative potential with regard to the positive ions by fast electrons from the plasma charge. Oxygen gas molecules bombard the first lead film where they probably disassociate into two oxygen atoms. A surface reaction takes place which produces a lead-oxide insulating layer in the first lead film. After this lead-oxide layer has reached a predetermined thickness, the plasma is extinguished and the oxygen-lead reaction stops. Immediately after the oxide formation, a second lead layer is evaporated onto the oxide layer to form a tunneling barrier of the Josephson type. Instead of forming a lead-oxide insulating layer into the first lead film, polymerized organic molecules may be formed on the lead surface by the high energy bombardment.
Abstract:
An associatively organized cryogenic information-processing system having a plurality of identical words, each word having a predetermined number of storage bits and a plurality of controlled registers, each register having one bit for each word. Each bit of one of the control registers, termed the status register, has three stable states. One of the states is a ground state which exists in the event of failure of that bit in the status register so that the status register will detect failure of its own bit. The failure modes of the remainder of the system are controlled such that the failure of any part of any word results in the corresponding bit of the status register reverting to the ground state. During operation, those words identified by the status register as being failed are excluded from use.
Abstract:
An associatively organized data processing system is disclosed. The bits of each data word are recorded radially on a magnetic disk by means of a separate read-write head for each bit track. Logic circuitry is provided for each read-write head to perform associative processing. Thus, all words in memory can be associatively processed after one revolution of the disk. The match and occupancy status of each work is determined by corresponding bits on an occupancy-status track and a matchstatus track. The status tracks are updated as each word is logically processed by means of spaced read and write heads and shift registers to delay the bits of status data before they are updated and recorded back on the disk in accordance with the associative processing of the words.