6 research outputs found
Progress toward superconductor electronics fabrication process with planarized NbN and NbN/Nb layers
To increase density of superconductor digital and neuromorphic circuits by
10x and reach integration scale of Josephson junctions (JJs) per chip,
we developed a new fabrication process on 200-mm wafers, using self-shunted
Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb JJs and kinetic inductors. The process has a layer of JJs, a
layer of resistors, and 10 fully planarized superconducting layers: 8 Nb layers
and 2 layers of high kinetic inductance materials, MoN and NbN, with sheet
inductance of 8 pH/sq and 3 pH/sq, respectively. NbN films were deposited by
two methods: with =15.5 K by reactive sputtering of a Nb target in
Ar+N mixture; with in the range from 9 K to 13 K by plasma-enhanced
chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) using
Tris(diethylamido)(tert-butylimido)niobium(V) metalorganic precursor. PECVD of
NbN was investigated to obtain conformal deposition and filling narrow trenches
and vias with high depth-to-width ratios, which was not possible to achieve
using sputtering and other physical vapor deposition (PVD) methods at
temperatures below required to prevent degradation of Nb/Al-AlOx/Nb
junctions. Nb layers with 200 nm thickness are used in the process layer stack
as ground planes to maintain a high level of interlayer shielding and low
intralayer mutual coupling, for passive transmission lines with wave impedances
matching impedances of JJs, typically <=50 , and for low-value
inductors. NbN and NbN/Nb bilayer are used for cell inductors. Using NbN/Nb
bilayers and individual pattering of both layers to form inductors allowed us
to minimize parasitic kinetic inductance associated with interlayer vias and
connections to JJs as well as to increase critical currents of the vias.
Fabrication details and results of electrical characterization of NbN films,
wires, and vias, and comparison with Nb properties are given.Comment: 12 pages, 16 figures, 4 tables, 49 references. Submitted to IEEE TAS
on Nov. 10, 202
Characterization of superconducting through-silicon vias as capacitive elements in quantum circuits
The large physical size of superconducting qubits and their associated
on-chip control structures presents a practical challenge towards building a
large-scale quantum computer. In particular, transmons require a
high-quality-factor shunting capacitance that is typically achieved by using a
large coplanar capacitor. Other components, such as superconducting microwave
resonators used for qubit state readout, are typically constructed from
coplanar waveguides which are millimeters in length. Here we use compact
superconducting through-silicon vias to realize lumped element capacitors in
both qubits and readout resonators to significantly reduce the on-chip
footprint of both of these circuit elements. We measure two types of devices to
show that TSVs are of sufficient quality to be used as capacitive circuit
elements and provide a significant reductions in size over existing approaches