SCENET roadmap for superconductor digital electronics

The roadmap gives an overview on status and future developments in Superconducting Digital Electronics (SDE). Key areas in SDE under focus are applications, circuit simulation and design, circuit fabrication, interfacing and testing, cooling and system aspects, and new devices and materials. Care was taken to establish the vital link between research and development on the one hand and the industrial view on the other hand. The present roadmap is based on extensive input from the roadmap working group on SDE established by SCENET – the European Network for Superconductivity, intensified by the activities of the FLUXONICS Network – the European Foundry for Superconducting Electronics. It is the result of many years of discussion in the group and of consultations with experts in the field, on the way to bring together industrial expectations and visionary extrapolation and current status of technology.

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