18th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors (LTD-18)

Jul 22 – 26, 2019
Milano
Europe/Rome timezone

Effects on Film Stress on Quality Factors of Niobium Resonators

Jul 25, 2019, 5:45 PM
1h 15m
Piazza Città di Lombardia (Milano)

Piazza Città di Lombardia

Milano

Piazza Città di Lombardia, 1, 20124 Milano MI
Poster Low Temperature Detector fabrication techniques and materials

Speaker

Qing Yang Tang (University of Chicago)

Description

Film stress has been long known to affect the properties and performances of thin superconductors. In the quantum computing field, a slightly compressive film (~ -100 MPa) has been shown to be ideal for making superconducting-insulating-superconducting (SIS) junctions, no analogous study has been done for superconducting resonators. Anecdotal evidence suggests compressive films show lower loss when patterned as millimeter wavelength transmission lines. We plan to test this relationship using narrow-band microstrip resonators and studying resonator quality factor ($Q$) with film stress, with film stress varying from -700 MPa (compressive) to 300 MPa (tensile). The devices are single-layer Nb lumped-element kinetic inductance detectors (LEKIDs) with resonance frequencies between 0.6-1.7 GHz. Around 200 nm of Nb is deposited onto high resistivity silicon wafer via sputtering under varying chamber pressures and the film stresses are subsequently measured. The wafers are then patterned via optical lithography and dry etched with fluorine plasma. We measure the resonance $Q$ and $T_c$ for each film using a helium dilution refrigerator.

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Primary authors

Qing Yang Tang (University of Chicago) Pete Barry (Cardiff University) Erik Shirokoff (University of Chicago)

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