We have produced high quality superconducting half-wave microwave resonators on YBCO/YSZ/Si heterostructures. The YSZ was grown on (100) Si by pulsed dc magnetron sputtering at 820°C in 37 mTorr Ar/O 2. YBCO was then deposited on the YSZ/Si by pulsed laser ablation at 760°C in 0.5 Torr of O 2. A coplanar meander-line structure was patterned and its microwave characteristics measured. The results indicate Si to be a definite candidate for microwave applications producing Q values exceeding 50,000 at 4 GHz for T < 30 K. The microwave properties compare favorably to those obtained from identical resonators patterned on normal metal and YBCO/LaAlO 3 at 30 K.