Reed Foster

Graduate Research Fellow

M.Eng, EECS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
66 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 36-229
Cambridge, MA 02139

650-463-6432 | 617-253-0237
reedf@mit.edu

Reed Foster is an M.Eng student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2022. His current work focuses on superconducting nano cryotron devices for applications in single-photon detection and cryogenic digital logic.

QNN Publications, Conference Papers, & Thesis

Simon, A., Foster, R. A., Sahoo, M., Shi, J., Batson, E. K., Incalza, F., Heil, C., & Berggren, K. K. (2025). Ab initio modeling of single-photon detection in superconducting nanowires (No. arXiv:2501.13791). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.13791

Simon, A., Foster, R. A., Medeiros, O., Castellani, M., Batson, E. K., & Berggren, K. K. (2024). Characterizing and modeling the influence of geometry on the performance of superconducting nanowire cryotrons (No. arXiv:2409.17366). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.17366

Foster, R. A., Simon, A., Castellani, M., Medeiros, O., & Berggren, K. K. (2024, September 9). Nanocryotrons: devices for readout of superconducting detectors and beyond [Invited Presentaion]. QUEST 2024, Fukuoka, Japan.

Simon, A., Foster, R. A., Medeiros, O., & Berggren, K. K. (2024, September 5). Superconducting nanowire cryotrons for device readout and integrated cryogenic circuits. Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC), Salt Lake City, Utah.

Paul, D. J., Batson, E. K., Foster, R. A., Opsahl, S., Zhou, T. X., Warusawithana, M., Charaev, I., Santavicca, D. F., & Berggren, K. K. (2024, September 4). Scalable and high-yield nanofabrication on thin-film YBa2Cu3O7 for nanowire-based devices. Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC), Salt Lake City, Utah.

Medeiros, O., Colangelo, M., Butters, B. A., Karam, V., Castellani, M., Foster, R. A., & Berggren, Karl K. (2024, September 3). A 16 Bit Superconducting Nanowire Memory Array. Applied Superconductivity Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Castellani, M., Medeiros, O., Foster, R. A., Buzzi, A., Colangelo, M., Bienfang, J. C., Restelli, A., & Berggren, K. K. (2024). Nanocryotron ripple counter integrated with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector for megapixel arrays. Physical Review Applied, 22(2), 024020. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.22.024020

Karam, V., Medeiros, O., Dandachi, T. E., Castellani, M., Foster, R. A., Colangelo, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2024). Parameter extraction for a superconducting thermal switch (hTron) SPICE model (No. arXiv:2401.12360). arXiv.

Foster, R. A. (2023). Scaling of Nanocryotron Superconducting Logic [M.S. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology].

Castellani, M., Medeiros, O., Foster, R. A., Buzzi, A., Colangelo, M., Bienfang, J. C., Restelli, A., & Berggren, K. K. (2023). A Nanocryotron Ripple Counter Integrated with a Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector for Megapixel Arrays (No. arXiv:2304.11700). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.11700

Foster, R. A., Castellani, M., Buzzi, A., Medeiros, O., Colangelo, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2023). A superconducting nanowire binary shift register. Applied Physics Letters, 122(15), 152601. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0144685

Buzzi, A., Castellani, M., Foster, R. A., Medeiros, O., Colangelo, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2023). A nanocryotron memory and logic family. Applied Physics Letters, 122(14), 142601.

Foster, R. A., Castellani, M., Buzzi, A., Medeiros, O., Colangelo, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2023). A Superconducting Nanowire Binary Shift Register (No. arXiv:2302.04942). arXiv.

Buzzi, A., Castellani, M., Foster, R. A., Medeiros, O., Colangelo, M., & Berggren, K. K. (2022). A Nanocryotron Memory and Logic Family (No. arXiv:2212.07953). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2212.07953

Foster, R. A. (2022, June 8). A Superconducting Binary Shift Register for SNSPD Readout [Oral Presentation]. WOLTE 15, Matera, Italy.

Buzzi, A. (2022, June 8). Building blocks design for superconducting nanowire asynchronous logic [Oral Presentation]. WOLTE 15, Matera, Italy.