High Temperature Superconductivity Applications for Electronic Warfare and Microwave Systems

Abstract

The discovery in 1987 of high temperature superconductivity (HTSC) in ceramic oxide compounds has given the Electronic Warfare and Microwave community another technology to help reach some of their most demanding goals. The near term applications will be in passive microwave components, providing reduced insertion loss, smaller circuit and device size, and higher quality factor circuitry with less heat dissipation. Other applications are farther away and may not have even been conceived as of yet. All applications need to be assessed for their overall payoff compared to conventional technology to determine if the benefits of using superconductivity warrant cryogenic cooling. Keywords: Superconductivity; High temperature superconductivity; Electronic warfare; Thin film superconductivity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA222972

Entities

People

  • Paul A. Ryan

Organizations

  • Wright Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cryopumping
  • Delay Lines
  • Detection
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Films
  • Frequency
  • High Temperature
  • Insertion Loss
  • Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits
  • Radar
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Superconductivity
  • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • Transmission Lines

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Superconducting Magnet Technology
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene