Vacuum-gap capacitors for low-loss superconducting resonant circuits

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 948-952

  Cicak, Katarina ^a   Allman, Michael S ^a   Strong, Joshua A ^a   Osborn, Kevin D ^b   Simmonds, Raymond W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

High Q resonator; Loss tangent; Low loss superconducting capacitor; Superconducting qubit; Vacuum microelectronics; Vacuum gap capacitor

Indexed keywords

HIGH-Q RESONATOR; LOSS TANGENT; LOW-LOSS SUPERCONDUCTING CAPACITOR; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT; VACUUM MICROELECTRONICS;

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; BARIUM TITANATE; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MICROELECTRONICS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RESONANT CIRCUITS; RESONATORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; VACUUM;

VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 68649121093     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2009.2019665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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