Apr 9, 2019 | News Articles
Congratulations to John Simonaitis on receiving the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This prestigious and competitive award will support his work for three years.
Mar 21, 2019 | News Articles
The method of negative-tone polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) electron-beam lithography is investigated to improve the performance of nanowire-based superconducting detectors. Using this approach, the superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have been...
Mar 4, 2019 | News Articles
The basis for superconducting electronics can broadly be divided between two technologies: the Josephson junction and the superconducting nanowire. While the Josephson junction (JJ) remains the dominant technology due to its high speed and low power dissipation,...
Feb 14, 2019 | News Articles
Quantum electron microscopy (QEM) is a measurement approach that could reduce sample radiation damage, which represents the main obstacle to sub-nanometer direct imaging of molecules in conventional electron microscopes. This method is based on the exploitation of...
Feb 1, 2019 | News Articles
To better understand the origins of the timing resolution, also known as jitter, of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs), we have performed timing characterizations of a niobium nitride SNSPD with a dual-ended readout. By simultaneously measuring...
Feb 1, 2019 | News Articles
Conventional readout of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) sets an upper bound on the output voltage to be the product of the bias current and the load impedance, IB × Zload, where Zload is limited to 50 Ω in standard r.f. electronics. Here, we...