Cooling and packaging of RF components

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    Abstract

    The ideal cryogenic refrigerator (“cryocooler” or “cooler”) for cooling superconducting RF components should have a cooling power of a few Watts at the desired operating temperature, with an input power of also only a few Watts. Furthermore, it would be nice if it had infinite operating lifetime and costs only a few dollars. More wishes can be made, but it is obviously clear that such an ideal cooler, unfortunately, does not exist. Therefore, in the design of the complete system, a trade-off has to be made to compromise these wishes or requirements. In this trade-off process, device design and cryopackaging design have to interact. For example, a lower operating temperature may be desirable from the point of view of device performance while a lower temperature will necessitate a cooler that is bigger, heavier and more expensive. In this chapter, the cryopackaging aspects are considered. The main questions to be answered are:
    How do available coolers work?
    What are trends in cooling
    What are the important aspects in packaging?
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMicrowave Superconductivity
    EditorsHarold Weinstock, Martin Nisenoff
    Place of PublicationAmsterdam, Netherlands
    PublisherKluwer Academic Publishers
    Pages271-304
    Number of pages34
    ISBN (Electronic)978-94-010-0450-3
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4020-0446-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2001
    EventNATO Advanced Study Institute on Microwave Superconductivity 1999 - Millau, France
    Duration: 29 Aug 199910 Sept 1999

    Publication series

    NameNATO Science Series E: Applied Sciences
    PublisherKluwer Academic Publishers
    Volume375
    ISSN (Print)0168-132X

    Conference

    ConferenceNATO Advanced Study Institute on Microwave Superconductivity 1999
    Country/TerritoryFrance
    CityMillau
    Period29/08/9910/09/99

    Keywords

    • METIS-284849

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