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Dissipative cryogenic filters with zero dc resistance

Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 014703 (2008); doi:10.1063/1.2835716

Published 25 January 2008

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Hendrik Bluhm and Kathryn A. Moler
Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
The authors designed, implemented, and tested cryogenic rf filters with zero dc resistance, based on wires with a superconducting core inside a resistive sheath. The superconducting core allows low frequency currents to pass with negligible dissipation. Signals above the cutoff frequency are dissipated in the resistive part due to their small skin depth. The filters consist of twisted wire pairs shielded with copper tape. Above approximately 1  GHz, the attenuation is exponential in sqrt( omega ), as typical for skin depth based rf filters. By using additional capacitors of 10  nF per line, an attenuation of at least 45  dB above 10  MHz can be obtained. Thus, one single filter stage kept at mixing chamber temperature in a dilution refrigerator is sufficient to attenuate room temperature black body radiation to levels corresponding to 10  mK above about 10  MHz. ©2008 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 26 October 2007; accepted 26 December 2007; published 25 January 2008
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