50 ω transmission lines with extreme wavelength compression based on superconducting nanowires on high-permittivity substrates
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-20-2021
Abstract
We demonstrate impedance-matched low-loss transmission lines with a signal wavelength more than 150 times smaller than the free space wavelength using superconducting nanowires on high permittivity substrates. A niobium nitride thin film is patterned in a coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission line geometry on a bilayer substrate consisting of 100 nm of epitaxial strontium titanate on high-resistivity silicon. The use of strontium titanate on silicon enables wafer-scale fabrication and maximizes process compatibility. It also makes it possible to realize a 50 ω characteristic impedance across a wide range of CPW widths from the nanoscale to the macroscale. We fabricated and characterized an approximately 50 ω CPW device with two half-wave stub resonators. Comparing the measured transmission coefficient to numerical simulations, we determine that the strontium titanate film has a dielectric constant of 1.1 × 10 3 and a loss tangent of not more than 0.009. To facilitate the design of distributed microwave devices based on this type of material system, we describe an analytical model of the CPW properties that gives good agreement with both measurements and simulations.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi.org/10.1063/5.0077008
Citation Information
Santavicca DF, Colangelo M, Eagle CR, Warusawithana MP, Berggren KK. 50 Ω transmission lines with extreme wavelength compression based on superconducting nanowires on high-permittivity substrates. Applied physics letters. 2021;119(25):252601-. doi:10.1063/5.0077008