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<h2 id="application-to-nonreciprocal-gyromagnetic-devices">Application to nonreciprocal gyromagnetic devices</h2> <p>Nonreciprocal <a href="/facts/Magneto-optic_effect/kJnv2D05">gyromagnetic</a> devices such as resonant <a href="/facts/Isolator_(microwave)/dcaNBlRT">isolators</a> and differential <a href="/facts/Phase_shift_module/KdPVsXSL">phase shifters</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> depend on a microwave signal presenting a rotating (circularly polarized) magnetic field to a statically magnetized <a href="/facts/Ferrite_(magnet)/kBTM7Dqk">ferrite</a> body. CPW can be designed to produce just such a rotating magnetic field in the two slots between the central and side conductors. </p><p>The dielectric substrate has no direct effect on the magnetic field of a microwave signal travelling along the CPW line. For the magnetic field, the CPW is then symmetrical in the plane of the <a href="/facts/Metallizing/QI5cN9EP">metalization</a>, between the substrate side and the air side. Consequently, currents flowing along parallel paths on opposite faces of each conductor (on the air-side and on the substrate-side) are subject to the same inductance, and the overall current tends to be divided equally between the two faces. </p><p>Conversely, the substrate <i>does</i> affect the electric field, so that the substrate side contributes a larger capacitance across the slots than does the air side. Electric charge can accumulate or be depleted more readily on the substrate face of the conductors than on the air face. As a result, at those points on the wave where the current reverses direction, charge will spill over the edges of the metalization between the air face and the substrate face. This secondary current over the edges gives rise to a longitudinal (parallel with the line), magnetic field in each of the slots, which is in <a href="/facts/Quadrature_phase/cpGtuVll">quadrature</a> with the vertical (normal to the substrate surface) magnetic field associated with the main current along the conductors. </p><p>If the <a href="/facts/Dielectric_constant/vnKbPTn1">dielectric constant</a> of the substrate is much greater than unity, then the magnitude of the longitudinal magnetic field approaches that of the vertical field, so that the combined magnetic field in the slots approaches circular polarization.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="application-in-solid-state-physics">Application in solid state physics</h2> <p>Coplanar waveguides play an important role in the field of solid state <a href="/facts/Quantum_computing/nbbcgmvq">quantum computing</a>, e.g. for the coupling of microwave photons to a superconducting qubit. In particular the research field of <a href="/facts/Circuit_quantum_electrodynamics/dvxbMejH">circuit quantum electrodynamics</a> was initiated with coplanar waveguide <a href="/facts/Resonator/NjC413Gn">resonators</a> as crucial elements that allow for high field strength and thus strong coupling to a <a href="/facts/Superconducting_quantum_computing/3Dj2BN2v">superconducting qubit</a> by confining a microwave photon to a volume that is much smaller than the cube of the wavelength. To further enhance this coupling, superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators with extremely low losses were applied.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> (The quality factors of such superconducting coplanar resonators at low temperatures can exceed 106 even in the low-power limit.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a>) Coplanar resonators can also be employed as <a href="/facts/Quantum_bus/DBNxepoo">quantum buses</a> to couple multiple qubits to each other.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p><p>Another application of coplanar waveguides in solid state research is for studies involving magnetic resonance, e.g. for <a href="/facts/Electron_spin_resonance_spectroscopy/TDHV8c9e">electron spin resonance spectroscopy</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> or for <a href="/facts/Magnonics/vfRwpsso">magnonics</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> </p><p>Coplanar waveguide resonators have also been employed to characterize the material properties of (<a href="/facts/High-temperature_superconductivity/MXtx2gvV">high-Tc</a>) superconducting thin films.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Waveguide_(electromagnetism)/M60l8qrm">Waveguide (electromagnetism)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Microstrip/QkKwyAN7">Microstrip</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Stripline/RNdJWRQJ">Stripline</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Post-wall_waveguide/hShSJC6k">Post-wall waveguide</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Telegrapher%2527s_equations/U6ky4CFx">Telegrapher's equations</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Via_fence/v0lbayy7">Via fence</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Gevorgian, S. 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