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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1575-1581 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1991 |