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This melts the aluminum wire and bonds it to the surface. This allows the system<br />

to run wires between pads without the use <strong>of</strong> solder. This technique makes it<br />

possible to make contact to pads that are only a few hundred µm wide.<br />

6.3.4 Dilution Refrigerator Wiring<br />

The other non-<strong>of</strong>f-the-shelf component needed is the wiring inside the DR (see<br />

Figure 6.2). It consists <strong>of</strong> several different parts that have to be chosen/built to<br />

manage heat loads, noise, and cryogenic properties.<br />

Starting at the outside <strong>of</strong> the qubit box, the squid is connected immediately to<br />

a ∼ 30 Ω shunting resistor. This resistor is needed to limit the voltage generated<br />

in the squid when it switches to the voltage state as explained in Chapter 4.1.3.<br />

If this resistor is omitted, the squid switching generates a large amount <strong>of</strong> quasiparticle<br />

excitations in the qubit circuit which reduce qubit performance. The next<br />

component along the squid line is a copper powder filter (Cu). This device consists<br />

<strong>of</strong> a wire wound into a spiral that is sitting in a cavity filled with copper powder<br />

and epoxy for thermal contact. Electrically, it functions as a very quiet low-pass<br />

filter that absorbs most noise coming down the squid line. The ∼ 30 Ω resistor<br />

and the copper powder filter are both mounted at the 25 mK stage <strong>of</strong> the DR to<br />

prevent them from creating noise due to their temperature. Along the squid line,<br />

at the 4 K stage <strong>of</strong> the DR is a resistor network that splits the line into a bias and<br />

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