Jul 24, 2024 | News Articles, Our Research
New publication: Emma Batson, Francesca Incalza, Matteo Castellani, Marco Colangelo, Ilya Charaev, Andreas Schilling, Sergey Cherednichenko, and Karl K. Berggren. “Effects of Helium Ion Exposure on the Single-Photon Sensitivity of MgB₂ and NbN Detectors,”...
May 24, 2024 | News Articles, Our Research
Full article citation: I. Charaev et al., “Single-photon detection using large-scale high-temperature MgB2 sensors at 20 K,” Nat Commun, vol. 15, no. 1, p. 3973, May 2024. The article is Open Access and can be viewed here. Abstract Ultra-fast single-photon detectors...
Mar 25, 2024 | News Articles, Our Research
Prof. Karl Berggren gave a presentation on Integerated Electronics for Superconducting-nanowire Single-photon Detector Readouts at the SPIE Quantum West conference this January. The recording of this presentation is now available in the SPIE Digital Library. To access...
Jun 23, 2023 | News Articles, Our Research
Now-Dr. Marco Colangelo’s thesis defense is now available to view online. The title is “Superconducting Nanowire Technology For Microwave and Photonics Applications.” Congratulations for Dr. Colangelo for his successful PhD defense! Abstract: Quantum computing...
Jul 19, 2022 | News Articles
The optimization of superconducting thin-films has pushed the sensitivity of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) to the mid-infrared (mid-IR). Earlier demonstrations have shown that straight tungsten silicide nanowires can achieve unity internal...
Feb 25, 2021 | News Articles
Developing compact, low-dissipation, cryogenic-compatible microwave electronics is essential for scaling up low-temperature quantum computing systems. In this paper, we demonstrate an ultracompact microwave directional forward coupler based on high-impedance slow-wave...
Oct 7, 2020 | News Articles
As the limits of traditional von Neumann computing come into view, the brain’s ability to communicate vast quantities of information using low-power spikes has become an increasing source of inspiration for alternative architectures. Key to the success of these...
Sep 16, 2016 | News Articles, Uncategorized
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...
Feb 3, 2015 | News Articles, Our Research
[abstract] We found that electron-beam lithography, a top-down approach, is a suitable prototyping method for templating and controlling hydrothermally-grown ZnO nanowires (NWs). By varying the deposition method of the ZnO seed layer, annealing and template hole...