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We report ring resonators on a silicon germanium on silicon platform operating in the mid-infrared wavelength range around 3.5 - 4.6 {\mu}m with quality factors reaching up to one million. Advances in fabrication technology enable us to…

We have designed and fabricated superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators with fundamental frequencies from 2 to $9 \rm{GHz}$ and loaded quality factors ranging from a few hundreds to a several hundred thousands reached at temperatures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-12-16 M. Göppl , A. Fragner , M. Baur , R. Bianchetti , S. Filipp , J. M. Fink , P. J. Leek , G. Puebla , L. Steffen , A. Wallraff

We introduce a multilayer superconducting microwave resonator with sub-Ohm impedance optimized for high coupling strength to single electron spins. The design minimizes the magnetic far-field and therefore achieves a Purcell factor $F_P >…

We present spiral resonators of thin film niobium (Nb) that exhibit large geometric inductance, high critical magnetic fields and high single photon quality factors. These low loss geometric inductors can be a compelling alternative to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 M. Medahinne , Y. P. Kandel , S. Thapa Magar , E. Champion , J. M. Nichol , M. S. Blok

We demonstrate a simple and versatile resonator design based on a short strip of a typical coplanar waveguide shorted at one end to the ground and shunted at the other end with a large parallel-plate capacitor. Due to the shape of the…

Superconducting enclosures will be key components of scalable quantum computing devices based on circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED). Within a densely integrated device, they can protect qubits from noise and serve as quantum memory…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-15 T. Brecht , M. Reagor , Y. Chu , W. Pfaff , C. Wang , L. Frunzio , M. H. Devoret , R. J. Schoelkopf

Low-loss superconducting rf devices are required when used for quantum computation. Here, we present a series of measurements and simulations showing that conducting losses in the packaging of our superconducting resonator devices affect…

Microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) are thin film, cryogenic, superconducting resonators. Incident Cooper pair-breaking radiation increases their kinetic inductance, thereby measurably lowering their resonant frequency. For a…

We present a theoretical and experimental study of superconducting ring resonators as an initial step toward their implementation in superconducting electronics and quantum technologies, with promising applications including superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Zhenyuan Sun , Stafford Withington , Christopher Thomas , Songyuan Zhao

This study investigates the use of spiral geometry in superconducting resonators to achieve high intrinsic quality factors, crucial for applications in quantum computation and quantum sensing. We fabricated Archimedean Spiral Resonators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yusuke Tominaga , Shotaro Shirai , Yuji Hishida , Hirotaka Terai , Atsushi Noguchi

Microwave circuit electrodynamics of disordered superconductors is a very active research topic spawning a wide range of experiments and applications. For compact superconducting circuit elements, the transition to an insulating state poses…

We demonstrate that a high kinetic inductance disordered superconductor can realize a low microwave loss, non-dissipative circuit element with an impedance greater than the quantum resistance ($R_Q = h/4e^2 \simeq 6.5k\Omega$). This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 David Niepce , Jonathan Burnett , Jonas Bylander

We investigate thin films of conducting aluminium-oxide, also known as granular aluminium, as a material for superconducting high quality, high kinetic inductance circuits. The films are deposited by an optimised reactive DC magnetron…

Voltage-tunable superconductor-semiconductor devices offer a unique platform to realize dynamic tunability in superconducting quantum circuits. By galvanically connecting a gated InAs-Al Josephson junction to a coplanar waveguide resonator,…

We present an ultrastrong superinductor-based coupling consisting of a flux qubit galvanically coupled to a resonator. The coupling inductor is fabricated in granular Aluminum, a superinductor material able to provide large surface…

Advancements in the fabrication of superconducting quantum devices have highlighted tantalum as a promising material, owing to its low surface oxidation microwave loss at low temperatures. However, tantalum films exhibit significantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Dengfeng Li , Jingjing Hu , Yuan Li , Shuoming An

We have studied superconducting coplanar-waveguide (CPW) resonators fabricated from disordered (granular) films of Aluminum. Very high kinetic inductance of these films, inherent to disordered materials, allows us to implement ultra-short…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-01-16 Wenyuan Zhang , K. Kalashnikov , Wen-Sen Lu , P. Kamenov , T. DiNapoli , M. E. Gershenson

Superconducting granular aluminum is attracting increasing interest due to its high kinetic inductance and low dissipation, favoring its use in kinetic inductance particle detectors, superconducting resonators or quantum bits. We perform…

The in-plane motion of an electron on helium can couple to superconducting microwave resonators via electrical dipole coupling, offering a robust and rapid readout scheme. In previous efforts, microwave resonator designs for electrons on…

In this study, we evaluate the suitability of using DC-biased aluminium resonators as low-frequency kinetic inductance detectors operating in the frequency range of 50 - 120 GHz. Our analysis routine for supercurrent-biased resonators is…

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