News
Navid Abedzadeh Highlighted by RLE
Periodically, the Research Laboratory for Electronics (RLE) at MIT highlights one research student. This month, QNN’s Navid Abedzadeh was highlighted. Navid is currently involved in the Quantum Electron Microscope project. The aim of this project is developing a tool that is proposed to be capable of imaging biological samples on a nanometer-scale resolution without damaging them.
Check out the RLE Spotlight here.
Emily Toomey awarded 2017 Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award for best EE Master’s Thesis
Congratulations to Emily Toomey for being awarded the 2017 Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Award for best electrical engineering Master’s Thesis in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Emily’s thesis, titled “Microwave response of nonlinear oscillations in resistively shunted superconducting nanowires” describes her work on studying the control of thermal behavior in superconducting nanowires through resistive shunting. In particular, it investigates how the resulting high-frequency relaxation oscillations interact with an external drive to produce behavior conventionally associated with Josephson junctions.
More information about this award may be found here.
Qing-Yuan Zhao awarded the 2nd prize in the Jan Evetts SuST award at EUCAS
Congratulation to former QNN post-doc Qing-Yuan Zhao for being awarded the 2nd prize in the Jan Evetts SuST award at the EUCAS conference for his paper:
Qing-Yuan Zhao, Adam N. McCaughan, Andrew E. Dane, Karl K. Berggren, Thomas Ortlepp. “A nanoCryotron comparator can connect single-flux quantum circuits to conventional electronics“. Superconducting Science and Technology 30, 044002 (2017)
NbN Nanowire Research Highlighted in Scilight
Recent work published by our group was featured in Scilight “New method for making superconducting NbN nanowires could make single photons easy prey” by Mark Bello.
The reference paper is:
Andrew E. Dane, Adam N. McCaughan, Di Zhu, Qingyuan Zhao, Chung-Soo Kim, Niccolo Calandri, Francesco Bellei, Karl K. Berggren. “Bias Sputtered NbN and Superconducting Nanowire Devices” Applied Physics Letters 111 (2017).
Welcome to Murat Onen and Marco Turchetti
Welcome to the group to our new EECS Ph.D. students Murat Onen and Marco Turchetti.