Low Loss Superconducting Microstrip Development at Argonne National Lab

Journal Article · Thu Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2014 · IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2014.2369231· OSTI ID:1357457

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1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). High-Energy Physics Division; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
2. Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy
3. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. Dept. of Physics; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
4. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
5. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy. Dept. of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
6. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada). Dept. of Physics
7. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). High-Energy Physics Division
8. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
9. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics. The Enrico Fermi Inst. Dept. of Physics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). High-Energy Physics Division
10. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
11. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). High-Energy Physics Division
12. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
13. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
14. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Sciences Division
15. McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada). Dept. of Physics; Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research, Toronto, ON (Canada). CIFAR Program in Cosmology and Gravity
16. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics. Dept. of Physics
17. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy. Dept. of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. Dept. of Physics
18. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba (Japan)
19. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States). Quantum Devices Group
20. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States)
21. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. Dept. of Physics
22. Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
23. Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
24. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Physics Division
25. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Astrophysics and Space Research
26. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics. The Enrico Fermi Inst. Dept. of Physics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
27. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
28. California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
29. Univ. of Melbourne, VIC (Australia). School of Physics; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
30. Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics
31. Three-Speed Logic, Inc., Vancouver, BC (Canada)
32. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
33. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada). Dunlap Inst. for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
34. Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Astronomy. Dept. of Physics

Low loss superconducting microstrip is an essential component in realizing 100 kilo-pixel multichroic cosmic microwave background detector arrays. In this paper, we have been developing a low loss microstrip by understanding and controlling the loss mechanisms. We present the fabrication of the superconducting microstrip, the loss measurements at a few GHz frequencies using half-wavelength resonators, and the loss measurements at 220 GHz frequencies with the superconducting microstrip coupled to slot antennas at one end and to TES detectors at the other end. Finally, the measured loss tangent of the microstrip made of sputtered Nb and SiOx is 1-2e-3.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); The Kavli Foundation (United States); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (United States)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357; ANT-0638937; PHY-1125897; AST-0956135
• OSTI ID: 1357457
• Journal Information: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 25, Issue 3; ISSN 1051-8223
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Microstrip
Loss measurement
Frequency measurement
Temperature measurement
Transmission line measurements
Superconducting transmission lines
Detectors
Superconductivity
Half-wavelength resonator
Transition edge sensor