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Title: Tunable Superconducting Josephson Dielectric Metamaterial

Abstract

We demonstrate a low-dissipation dielectric metamaterial with tunable properties based on the Josephson effect. Superconducting wires loaded with regularly spaced Josephson junctions (critical current $$I_c \approx 0.25$$ $$\mu$$A) spanning a K-band waveguide and aligned with the microwave electric fields create a superconducting dielectric metamaterial. Applied dc current tunes the cutoff frequency and effective permittivity of this unique electric metamaterial. The results are in agreement with an analytical model for microwave transmission through the artificial dielectric medium.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  2. Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Moscow (Russia)
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Research Org.:
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1570828
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1572134
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0018788; DESC0018788
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
AIP Advances
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2158-3226
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Superconducting Metamaterials; Josephson Junction; Dielectric Metamaterial; Tunable Metamaterial

Citation Formats

Trepanier, Melissa, Zhang, Daimeng, Filippenko, L. V., Koshelets, V. P., and Anlage, Steven. Tunable Superconducting Josephson Dielectric Metamaterial. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1063/1.5126963.
Trepanier, Melissa, Zhang, Daimeng, Filippenko, L. V., Koshelets, V. P., & Anlage, Steven. Tunable Superconducting Josephson Dielectric Metamaterial. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5126963
Trepanier, Melissa, Zhang, Daimeng, Filippenko, L. V., Koshelets, V. P., and Anlage, Steven. Fri . "Tunable Superconducting Josephson Dielectric Metamaterial". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5126963. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1570828.
@article{osti_1570828,
title = {Tunable Superconducting Josephson Dielectric Metamaterial},
author = {Trepanier, Melissa and Zhang, Daimeng and Filippenko, L. V. and Koshelets, V. P. and Anlage, Steven},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate a low-dissipation dielectric metamaterial with tunable properties based on the Josephson effect. Superconducting wires loaded with regularly spaced Josephson junctions (critical current $I_c \approx 0.25$ $\mu$A) spanning a K-band waveguide and aligned with the microwave electric fields create a superconducting dielectric metamaterial. Applied dc current tunes the cutoff frequency and effective permittivity of this unique electric metamaterial. The results are in agreement with an analytical model for microwave transmission through the artificial dielectric medium.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5126963},
journal = {AIP Advances},
number = 10,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Micrograph of Josephson junction loaded Nb wire arrays on Si substrate. The wires are 10µm wide and the junctions punctuate the wires every 70µm. A set of 4 wire arrays are spaced 1 mm apart on the chip. Right inset shows detail of two JJs and connecting wiremore » segments. Left inset schematically shows the two chips loaded into the K-band waveguide and JJ arrays (dotted lines) biased by a dc current, and rf electric field from a passing electromagnetic wave in the waveguide.« less

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