microwave circuit design using High Temp Superconductors

[roy83]

circuit and superconductivity

Hi..

I am looking out for the basics of design of microwave circuits like filters, mixers and resonators using High Temperature Superconductors (like YBaCuO3) at 77K. I want to understand the effects of low temperature and superconductivity on the circuit operation and various other details, and how they differ from conventional planar microwave circuits. I would also like to know the fabrication process for such HTS microwave circuits.

Can anybody suggest any good documents/books/web links for this topic?

Also, is there a provision in any of the EM Simulation Tools like HFSS or Ansoft Designer to incorporate High Temperature Superconductor based design?

regards
Ayan

 

[rautio]

eamon mcerlean

Hi Roy83 -- Download SonnetLite from www.sonnetsoftware.com (I work for Sonnet). It is a 3-D planar shielded EM anlaysis. It has no time-out, but is limited in problem size. Full documentation is included. Pages 81-83 in the User's Manual detail "Kinetic Inductance", which is unique to superconductors.

If you go to the Sonnet web site, click on "Products", then "Sonnet Bibliography", and search for "Super" in the title, the following references describing Sonnet being used for super conducting circuits are listed. There are probably additional references that did not include the word "super" in the title, a check on IEEE Xplore would be a good idea if you want more references. There are also quite a few references for 2005 that are not yet included in the list below. This should be enough reading to keep you busy for a while. Good luck!

1. Hieng Tiong Su, Yi Wang, Frederick Huang, and Michael J. Lancaster, "Wide-Band Superconducting Microstrip Delay Line," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 52, No. 11, November 2004, pp. 2482 - 2487.

2. Kunihiro Kawai, Kei Satoh, Shoichi Narahashi, Zhewang Ma, Yoshio Kobayashi, "5-GHz High Temperature Superconducting Filter Using Coplanar Waveguide Quarter Wavelength Resonator," European Microwave Week 2004 Conference Proceedings, RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11 -15 October 2004, pp. 1109 - 1112.

3. Eamon P. McErlean and Jia-Sheng Hong, "A HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING FILTER FOR FUTURE MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS," European Microwave Week 2004 Conference Proceedings, RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 11 -15 October 2004, pp. 1117 - 1120.

4. Guoyong Zhang, Michael J. Lancaster, Frederick Huang, Meihong Zhu, and Bisong Cao, "Accurate Design of High Tc Superconducting Microstrip Filter at UHF band for Radio Astronomy Front End," IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 6-11 June 2004, pp. 1117-1120.

5. Hieng Tiong Su, Yi Wang, Frederick Huang, Michael Lancaster, "Characterizing a Double-Spiralled Meander Superconducting Microstrip Delay Line using a Resonator Technique," IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, 6-11 June 2004, pp. 135-138.

6. H. R. Yi, Stephen K. Remillard, and Amr Abdelmonem, "A Novel Ultra-Compact Resonator for Superconducting Thin-Film Filters," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 51, No. 12, December 2003, pp. 2290-2296.

7. Ma, T. Kawaguchi, and Y. Kobayashi, "Development of Miniaturized High Temperature Superconductor Filters," 2003 Microwave Workshops and Exhibition Digest, Yokohama, Japan, November 26-28, 2003, pp. 405 - 410 (Article in Japanese).

8. Frederick Huang, Michael J. Lancaster, Yuanzhi Li, and Neil Roddis, "Superconducting Microstrip Wide Band Filter for Radio Astronomy," IEEE MTT Symposium Digest, Philadelphia, June 8 - 13, 2003, pp. 551-554.

9. Frederick Huang, Michael J. Lancaster, and Jiafeng Zhou, "Superconducting Microstrip Filters Using Compact Resonators with Double-Spiral Inductors and Interdigital Capacitors," IEEE MTT Symposium Digest, Philadelphia June 8 - 13, 2003, pp. 1889 - 1892.

10. I.B. Vendik, M.S. Gashinova, M.N. Goubina, Y.A. Kolmakov, I.A. Kolmakov, and G.Y. Zhang, "High-Tc superconducting planar filters with improved performance," IEEE Trans. Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 13, No.2, June 2003, pp. 284-286.

11. M.S. Gashinova, M.N. Goubina, Zhang Guoyong, I.A. Kolmakov, Y.A. Kolmakov, and I.B. Vendik, "High-Tc superconducting planar filter with pseudo-Chebyshev characteristic," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 51, No. 3, March 2003, pp.792-795.

12. Frederick Huang, "Ultra-Compact Superconducting Narrow-Band Filters Using Single- and Twin-Spiral Resonators," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 51, No. 2, February 2003, pp. 487 - 491.

13. Carine Lascaux, Frederic Rouchaud, Valerie Madrangeas, Michel Aubourg, Pierre Guillon, Bernard Theron, Michel Maignan, "Planar Ka-Band High Temperatre Superconducting Filters For Space Applications," IEEE MTT-S 2001 International Microwave Symposium Digest, Vol. 1, May 2001, pp. 487-490.

14. Michael Reppel and Jean-Claude Mage, "Superconducting Microstrip Bandpass Filter on LaA1O3 with High Out-of-Band Rejection," IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters, Vol. 10, No. 5, May 2000, pp. 180 - 182.

15. G. M. Coutts, R.R. Mansour and S.K. Chaudhuri, "High Temperature Superconducting Nonlinear Transmissions Lines," 2000 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, Vol. 2, 2000, 665 - 668.

16. Jia-Sheng Hong, Michael J. Lancaster, Dieter Jedamzik, and Robert B. Greed, "On the Development of Superconducting Microstrip Filters for Mobile Communications Applications," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Part I of two Parts, Vol. 47, No. 9, September 1999, pp. 1656 - 1663.

17. M. Reppel and H. Chaloupka, "Novel Approach for Narrowband Superconducting Filters," 1999 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest, Vol. 4, June 13-19, 1999, pp. 1563 - 1566.

18. Hanyang Y. Wang and Michael J. Lancaster, "Aperture-Coupled Thin-Film Superconducting Meander Antennas," Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 47, No. 5, May 1999, pp. 829 - 836.

19. J.S. Hong, M.J. Lancaster, D. Jedamzik and R.B. Greed, "8-Pole Superconducting Quasi-Elliptic Function Filter for Mobile Communications Application," 1998 IEEE MTT-S International Symposium Digest, Vol. 1, June 1998, pp. 367-370.

20. C.W. Turner, "V-Shaped transmission-lines for superconducting circuits and MMICs," Microwave Engineering Europe, October 1996, pp. 43-48.

21. Salvador H. Talisa, Michael A. Janocko, D.L. Meier, John Talvacchio, C. Moskowitz, D.C. Buck, R.S. Nye, S.J. Pieseski and George R. Wagner, "High Temperature Superconducting Space-Qualified Multiplexers and Delay Lines," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1996, pp. 1229-1239.

22. Kurt F. Raihn, Neal O. Fenzi, Gregory L. Hey-Shipton, Elna R. Saito, P. Vince Loung and David L. Aidnik, "Adaptive High Temperature Superconducting Filters for Interference Rejection," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1996, pp. 1374-1381.

23. Raafat R. Mansour, Shen Ye, Van Dokas, Bill Jolley, Glenn Thomson, Wai-Cheung Tang and Chandra M. Kudsia, "Design Considerations of Superconductive Input Multiplexers for Satellite Applications," IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques Vol. 44, No. 7, July 1996, pp. 1213-1228.

24. John W. Bandler, Radoslaw M. Biernacki, Shao Hua Chen, William J. Getsinger, Piotr A. Grobelny, Charles Moskowitz, and Salvador H. Talisa, "Electromagnetic Design of High-Temperature Superconducting Microwave Filters," International Journal of Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Computer-Aided Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 5, September 1995, pp. 331-343.

25. S.H. Talisa et al, "High-temperature superconducting four-channel filter bank," IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconduct., vol. 5, no. 2, June 1995, pp. 2079-2082.

26. Noyan Kinayman and M. I. Aksun, "On the Fast Track - Supercomputing at SU's Info Mall Helps Launch Businesses," Syracuse Herald American, Syracuse On-Line supplement, March 19, 1995, pg. 16.

27. K. F. Raihn, N. O. Fenzi, E. R. Soares, and G. L. Matthaei, "An Optical Switch for High Temperature Superconducting Microwave Band Reject Resonators," IEEE MTT-S 1995 International Microwave Symposium, Orlando, Florida 1995, pp. 187-190.

28. G. L. Matthaei and G. Hey-Shipton, "Concerning the Use of High-Temperature Superconductivity in Planar Microwave Filters," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., Vol. MTT-42, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 1287-1294.

29. R.R. Mansour, "Design of superconductive multiplexers using single-mode and dual- mode filters," IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 42, July 1994, pp. 1411-1418.

30. J. W. Bandler, et. al, "Electromagnetic Design of High-Temperature Superconducting Microwave Filters," IEEE International Microwave Symposium, San Diego May 1994, pp. 993-996.

31. R. R. Mansour, F. Rammo, and V. Dokas, "Design of Hybrid-Coupled Multiplexers and Diplexers using Asymmetrical Superconducting Filters," IEEE International Microwave Symposium, Atlanta June 1993, pp. 1281-1284.