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One-volt en:voltage standard developed by en:NIST based on an array of 3020 superconducting en:Josephson junctions, operating at liquid- helium temperatures. Microwave energy fed into the finguide structure on the left generates a voltage across the 4 chains of junctions on the right.

Source: NIST paper A Practical Josephson Voltage Standard at One Volt, Figure 1

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