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Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 02, 2021
Applicants:

Kelsey Mccusker, Sparrows Point, MD (US);

Stanley Katsuyoshi Wakamiya, Ellicott City, MD (US);

Jonathan Shane Atienza, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Jonathan Francis Van Dyke, East Elmhurst, NY (US);

Kevin Collao, Rosedale, MD (US);

Inventors:

Kelsey McCusker, Sparrows Point, MD (US);

Stanley Katsuyoshi Wakamiya, Ellicott City, MD (US);

Jonathan Shane Atienza, Satellite Beach, FL (US);

Jonathan Francis Van Dyke, East Elmhurst, NY (US);

Kevin Collao, Rosedale, MD (US);

Assignee:

NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Falls Church, VA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/2877 (2013.01); G01R 31/2862 (2013.01); G01R 31/2867 (2013.01);
Abstract

One example includes a cryogenic wafer test system. The system includes a first chamber that is cooled to a cryogenic temperature and a wafer chuck confined within the first chamber. The wafer chuck can be configured to accommodate a wafer device-under-test (DUT) comprising a plurality of superconducting die. The system also includes a second chamber that is held at a non-cryogenic temperature and which comprises a wafer chuck actuator system configured to provide at least one of translational and rotational motion of the wafer chuck via mechanical linkage interconnecting the wafer chuck and the wafer chuck actuator system. The system further includes a radiation barrier arranged between the first chamber and the second chamber and through which the mechanical linkage extends, the radiation barrier being configured to provide a thermal gradient between the cryogenic temperature of the first chamber and the non-cryogenic temperature of the second chamber.


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