HIGH POWER PROTECTION, INTEGRATION AND PACKAGING OF SUPERCONDUCTOR ANALOG DIGITAL CONVERTERS
Abstract
The University of Waterloo is pleased to submit this proposal to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the development of high power protection circuits for superconductor Analog Digital Converters (ADC). It also deals with the development of approaches for integrating ADCs operating up to 100 GHz with Niobium RF channelizers, power limiters and wideband millimeter-wave couplers. Development of techniques for packaging, multi-chip module (MCM) integration and interfacing of superconductor receivers operating up to 100 GHz, to 1 mm RF connectors will be also investigated in this project.The MIT Lincoln-Lab (MIT-LL) process will be used as the basis for the fabrication of the niobium prototype devices to be demonstrated under this research project. The research team at the University of Waterloo has many years of experience in successfully submitting fabrication runs to the MIT-LLprocess.Over the past 33 years, the principal investigator of this project, Professor Mansour, has played a major role in the development of high frequency analogue RF circuits, which are in use in todays satellite and wireless communication systems. He has 37 US and Canadian patents and over 390 refereed publications to his credit. He has successfully led several large R&D programs funded by NRL and DARPA on the development of superconductive filters and multiplexers. His 33 years of accumulated industrial and academic experience will be fully utilised in this project.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 29, 2020
- Source ID
- N000142012256
Entities
People
- Raafat R. Mansour
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Waterloo