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Professor Berggren awarded the Frank Quick Research Innovation Fellowship
Congratulations to Professor Berggren on being awarded the Frank Quick Research Innovation Fellowship (FRIF). The FRIF was created through the generosity of EECS alumnus Frank Quick ’69, SM ’70 to recognize midcareer faculty for outstanding research contributions and international leadership in their fields. Prof. Berggren has been recognized for his work on nanofabrication, especially applied to superconductive sensors and circuits, photodetectors, electronics and computing, and energy systems. Read more about this award and the other MIT faculty who were awarded the FRIF here.
Seeking Graduate Research Assistant in superconducting-nanowire based electronics
Developing superconducting-nanowire based electronics
We are looking for a graduate research assistant (must be an admitted MIT graduate student) to develop novel quantum sensors, logic devices and digital circuits based on superconducting nanowires. Present projects can support students to develop their skills from designing and fabricating electronics to constructing working systems, which are aimed to various applications, such as quantum information science and energy-efficient classical computation. The initial emphasis of the work will be on the investigation of working principles of superconducting nanowires and development of superconducting circuits based on the nanowire-based electronics.
Interested candidates may apply at http://goo.gl/forms/mleVXYlfWydeymej2.
Seeking post-doctoral candidate in electron optics and nanofabrication
Post-doctoral candidate sought with experience suitable to performing research in one or more of the following areas: design of electron optics, numerical simulation of electromagnetic fields and electron trajectories in electric fields, plasmonics, nanofabrication including electron/ion beam lithography, transmission-electron microscopy or holography, electron energy-loss spectroscopy, and quantum optics. The new hire will assist in with the planning and management of the group activities, especially in mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, planning and executing research programs, and raising funds for research. The post-doc will have an opportunity to work with a small international team of researchers to develop a new electron microscope based on quantum non-demolition measurements (Kruit et al. Designs for a quantum electron microscope, Ultramicroscopy 2016, 164, 31), as well as the opportunity to collaborate on other ongoing and new projects in our research group. The candidate must have a Ph.D. in Physics, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science, Applied Physics, or a related field. The initial emphasis of the work will be on the demonstration of quantum-mechanically coherent electron resonators to demonstrate the proof of concept of the effect.
Interested candidates may apply at http://goo.gl/forms/mleVXYlfWydeymej2. If this link is unavailable to you for any reason (some geographic locations block google forms), you may contact Dorothy Fleischer (dotf@mit.edu) for assistance in completing the form.Applications will be evaluated as received, with a candidate selection and appointment expected in the Fall of 2016.
New Paper: “nanoSQUID operation using kinetic rather than magnetic induction”
We report on a method of nanoSQUID modulation which uses kinetic inductance rather than magnetic inductance to manip-ulate the internal fluxoid state. We produced modulation using injected current rather than an applied magnetic field. Using this injected current, we were able to observe the triangle-wave shaped modulation of the device critical current which was periodic according to the London fluxoid quantization condition. The measurement results also confirmed that the fluxoid state inside a superconducting loop can be manipulated using primarily kinetic inductance. By using primarily kinetic inductance rather than magnetic inductance, the size of the coupling inductor was reduced by a factor of 10. As a result, this approach may provide a means to reduce the size of SQUID-based superconducting electronics. Additionally, this method provides a convenient way to perform kinetic inductance characterizations of superconducting thin films.
Seeking post-doctoral candidate in superconducting nanowires
Post-doctoral candidate sought with experience suitable for performing research in one or more of the following areas: superconducting electronics/detectors, low temperature physics, applications of superconducting devices, and related research topics. The post-doc will have an opportunity to develop superconducting-nanowire-based devices and apply them to quantum information science, energy-efficient classical computation, and the study of superconducting physics, as well as the opportunity to collaborate on other ongoing and new projects in our research group. The new hire will assist in planning and management of group activities, especially in mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, planning and executing research programs, and raising funds for research. The candidate must have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field. The initial emphasis of the work will be on the development superconducting circuits based on nanowire cryotrons for applications to superconducting memories and optical-electronic interfaces. Applications to single-photon will also be investigated.
Interested candidates may apply at http://goo.gl/forms/mleVXYlfWydeymej2. If this link is unavailable to you for any reason (some geographic locations block google forms), you may contact Dorothy Fleischer (dotf@mit.edu) for assistance in completing the form. Applications will be evaluated as received, with a candidate selection and appointment expected in the Fall of 2016.