Development of planar microstrip resonators for electron spin resonance spectroscopy

Abstract

This work focuses on the development of planar microwave resonators which are to be used in electron spin resonance spectroscopic studies. Two half wavelength microstrip resonators of different geometrical shapes, namely straight ribbon and omega, are fabricated on commercially available copper clad microwave laminates. Both resonators have a characteristic impedance of 50 Ω. We have performed electromagnetic field simulations for the two microstrip resonators and have extracted practical design parameters which were used for fabrication. The effect of the geometry of the resonators on the quasi-transverse electromagnetic (quasi-TEM) modes of the resonators is noted from simulation results. The fabrication is done using optical lithography technique in which laser printed photomasks are used. This rapid prototyping technique allows us to fabricate resonators in a few hours with accuracy up to 6 mils. The resonators are characterized using a Vector Network Analyzer. The fabricated resonators are used to standardize a home built low-temperature continuous wave electron spin resonance (CW-ESR) spectrometer which operates in S-band, by capturing the absorption spectrum of the free radical DPPH, at both room temperature and 77 K. The measured value of g-factor using our resonators is consistent with the values reported in literature. The designed half wavelength planar resonators will be eventually used in setting up a pulsed electron spin resonance spectrometer by suitably modifying the CW-ESR spectrometer.

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