Oct 27, 2025 | Our Research
A new paper written by the group was recently published in Physical Review Applied. Dip Joti Paul, Tony X. Zhou, Karl K. Berggren, “Photolithography-compatible three-terminal superconducting switch for driving CMOS loads,” Physical Review Applied, 24, 2, p. 024060,...
May 13, 2025 | News Articles, Our Research
A new publication written by the group on a superconducting diode was just published in Nature Electronics. Matteo Castellani, Owen Medeiros, Alessandro Buzzi, Reed A. Foster, Marco Colangelo and Karl K. Berggren.M. Castellani, O. Medeiros, A. Buzzi, R. A. Foster, M....
Aug 19, 2024 | News Articles, Our Research
New publication: Matteo Castellani, Owen Medeiros, Reed Foster, Alessandro Buzzi, Marco Colangelo, Joshua C. Bienfang, Alessandro Restelli, and Karl K. Berggren. “Nanocryotron ripple counter integrated with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector for...
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...
Apr 14, 2017 | News Articles
We demonstrate a scalable single-photon imager using a single continuous superconducting nanowire that is not only a single-photon detector but also functions as an efficient microwave delay line. In this context, photon-detection pulses are guided in the nanowire and...
Mar 8, 2017 | News Articles, Uncategorized
We demonstrate the use of a single three-terminal superconducting-nanowire device, called the nanocryotron (nTron), as a digital comparator to combine SFQ circuits with mature semiconductor circuits such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits....
Dec 9, 2016 | News Articles
We describe a superconducting three-terminal Y-shaped device that uses a simple geometric effect known as current crowding to sense the flow of current and actuate a readout signal. A complete description of the publication may be found here. Citation: Adam N....
Nov 15, 2016 | News Articles
Congratulations to Adam McCaughan for being awarded the 2016 Jin-Au Kong Award for outstanding PhD thesis in electrical engineering. Adam’s thesis, titled, “Superconducting Thin Film Nanoelectronics,” describes his work on developing novel...
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...