Josephson junction
Device used in ‘superchips’ (large and complex integrated circuits) to speed the passage of signals by a phenomenon called ‘electron tunnelling’. Although these superchips respond a thousand times faster than the silicon chip, they have the disadvantage that the components of the Josephson junctions operate only at temperatures close to absolute zero. They are named after English theoretical physicist Brian Josephson.
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