A Tapped-Delay-Line Superconductive Chirp Filter in Shielded Microstrip

Roland Ramisch, Gerhard R. Olbrich, Peter Russet

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Abstract

A superconducting chirp filter having a dispersive time delay of 26 ns and a 3.4 GHz bandwidth centered at 4.7 GHz has been fabricated using a niobium-on-silicon shielded microstrip technology. Along a 2X1.6 m delay line, unequally spaced microstrip directional couplers are employed as sampling devices. To achieve an improvement in dispersion and coupler directivity over conventional microstrip, the device uses a superconductive shield mounted at a distance equal to the height of the dielectric on top of the microstrip structure. Structural support of the 70-|xm-thin high-resistivity dielectric is provided by a large-area bond to a glass substrate.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1575-1581
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume39
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 1991

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