Study of loss in superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sage, Jeremy M ^a   Bolkhovsky, Vladimir ^a   Oliver, William D ^a   Turek, Benjamin ^a   Welander, Paul B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION POWER; HIGH QUALITY FACTORS; MATERIALS AND PROCESS; MICROWAVE PHOTON; NORMAL METALS; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; QUALITY FACTORS; RADIATION LOSS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RESONATOR MATERIALS; WAVEGUIDE RESONATORS;

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC LOSSES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 79953648114     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3552890     Document Type: Article

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