Towards Cable-to-Cable Connectors for Flexible Thin-Film Superconducting Transmission Lines

Shah, Archit; Gupta, Vaibhav; Yelamanchili, Bhargav; Peek, Sherman E.; Chowdhury, Md. Fahim F.; Rashid, Asmaul Smitha; Goteti, Uday S.; Sellers, John A.; Tuckerman, David B.; Hamilton, Michael C.

doi:10.1109/tasc.2021.3062566

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“…Minimizing interconnect volumes is paramount to realize more dense and complex systems. A solution to minimizing interconnect volumes that is heavily pursued is the fabrication of flexible cables [1][2][3][4][5]. Though these cables are a solution to physical dimension constraints, electrical and thermal aspects must be considered in the designs of cables and cable assembly procedures that are intended for use in dense cryogenic systems.…”

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Approaches for High Performance and Thermally Optimized Flexible Cryogenic Microwave Ribbon Cables

Peek

Shah²,

Yelamanchili³

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Design, fabrication, and testing of cryogenic cables with thermal performance considerations is presented in this work. Cables were designed with commercial off-the-shelf materials for low-GHz operation in a small form factor. Thermal and microwave simulations were performed during the design of cables. Fabrication processes were developed to create features in Cu-cladding and to successfully deposit thin-film metal in large step-height regions. Post-fabrication processes such as laser machining and connector assembly were used to cutout and interface with fabricated cables. Microwave performance was measured at room temperature and at 4.2 K with comparable results to simulations performed. Cables designed and fabricated in this work provide a solution to thermal and spatial limitations while achieving targeted microwave performance at cryogenic temperatures.

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