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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Superconducting Titanium Nitride Coplanar Resonators: Relationships between performance and deposition parameters

B. Chiaro, Shinobu Ohya, A. Megrant, C. Neill, R. Barends, B. Campbell, Y. Chen, Jack B. Kelly, M. Mariantoni, J. Mutus, P. J. J. O’Malley, P. Roushan, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. White, C. J. Palmstrøm, Benjamin A. Mazin, Andrew N. Cleland, John M. Martinis

Published Mar 18, 2013• 0 citations
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