• DocumentCode
    3142233
  • Title

    Low temperature superconductive tunable bandstop resonators and filters

  • Author

    Attar, Sara S. ; Setoodeh, Sorrneh ; Mansour, Raafat R.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    23-28 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1376
  • Lastpage
    1379
  • Abstract
    A superconducting MEMS varactor is reported. The device is fabricated using a standard Niobium superconductor foundry process. Utilizing this varactor a superconducting tunable notch resonator is implemented. The tunable resonator has a measured tunability of more than 20% from 3.22 GHz to 2.54 GHz with a biasing voltage from 0 V to 78 V. A 3-pole bandstop filter is also fabricated and tested. Simulation results of the tunable bandstop filter demonstrates a 20% shift in center frequency.
  • Keywords
    Foundries; Micromechanical devices; Niobium; Resonator filters; Superconducting filters; Superconductivity; Temperature; Testing; Varactors; Voltage; Cryogenic; Niobium; Radio Frequency systems; microelectromechanical systems; superconductivity; tunable bandstop filter; tunable resonator; varactor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2010 IEEE MTT-S International
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA, USA
  • ISSN
    0149-645X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6056-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0149-645X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSYM.2010.5517549
  • Filename
    5517549