Superconductors

News and Updates

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December 2, 2024

Sensors capable of detecting individual photons of visible light have become essential for applications ranging from imaging faint galaxies to quantum computing

The Big Quantum Chill: NIST Scientists Modify Common Lab Refrigerator to Cool Faster With Less Energy

April 23, 2024

By modifying a refrigerator commonly used in both research and industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have

Scientists Observe Long-Predicted Superconductor Property Using a Quantum Simulator

February 14, 2024

New insights can help scientists make superconducting materials more robust and useful.

Events

Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) Workshop

Wed, Jul 9 - Thu, Jul 10 2025

As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the 6th Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) workshop will be

Projects and Programs

Ab initio theoretical modeling for predicting structure and properties in advanced materials

Ongoing

Project activities include: Electronic structure of semiconductor-oxide interfaces. Thermodynamics of flexible microporous materials for gas storage Gas adsorption in microporous materials Analysis of topological materials, including magnetic topological insulators High-throughput screening of

Micrographs of kinetic inductance-based parametric amplifier

Amplifiers

Ongoing

We have developed parametric amplifiers based on two different technologies: Josephson Junctions and superconductors with high kinetic inductance, a representation of the kinetic energy of superconducting Cooper-pair charge carriers. Junction-based parametric amplifiers (JPAs) are well suited for

Electronic Material Characterization

Ongoing

Manufacturing optimized devices that incorporate newly-emerging materials requires predictable performance throughout device lifetimes. Unexpected degradation in device performance, sometimes leading to failure, is often traceable to poor material reliability. Reliability is rooted in the stability

Getting from Qubit to Mega-Qubit Quantum Computers with Radio Frequency (RF) Calibrations

Ongoing

“Getting from Qubit to Mega-Qubit Quantum Computers with RF Calibrations” is a multi-laboratory effort to develop precision radio frequency measurements in the coldest and darkest places on the planet, cryostats and dilution refrigerators. The projects in this multi-laboratory effort are focused on

Publications

A 64-pixel mid-infrared single-photon imager based on superconducting nanowire detectors

August 27, 2024

Author(s)

Benedikt Hampel, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma

We demonstrate a 64-pixel single-photon imager based on superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) capable of counting single photons up to a

Optically-induced quantum transitions in direct-probed mesoscopic 2H-NbSe2 for prototypical bolometers

August 26, 2024

Author(s)

Kishan Jayanand, Gustavo Saenz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Albert Davydov, Goran Karapetrov, Zhonghe Liu, Weidong Zhou, Anupama Kaul

Superconducting transition-edge sensors (TES) have emerged as fascinating devices to detect broadband electromagnetic radiation with low thermal noise

Superconducting phase diagram in BixNi1-x thin films: the effects of Bi stoichiometry on superconductivity

July 25, 2024

Author(s)

Jihun Park, Jarryd Horn, Dylan Kirsch, Rohit Pant, Hyeok Yoon, Sungha Baek, suchismita sarker, Apurva Mehta, Xiaohang Zhang, Seunghun Lee, Richard Greene, Johnpierre Paglione, Ichrio Takeuchi

The Bi–Ni binary system has been of interest due to possible unconventional superconductivity aroused therein, such as time-reversal symmetry breaking in Bi/Ni

The Simons Observatory: Production-Level Fabrication of the Mid- and Ultra-High-Frequency Wafers

May 4, 2024

Author(s)

Shannon Duff, Jason Austermann, James Beall, David Daniel, Johannes Hubmayr, Gregory Jaehnig, Bradley Johnson, Dante Jones, Michael J. Link, Tammy Lucas, Rita Sonka, Suzanne Staggs, Joel Ullom, Yuhan Wang

The Simons Observatory (SO) is a cosmic microwave background instrumentation suite in the Atacama Desert of Chile. More than 65,000 polarization-sensitive

Awards

2020 Lee Osheroff Richardson Science Prize - Sheng Ran

Dr Sheng Ran is recognised for his research on unconventional superconductivity and electronic phases, particularly his seminal

R. Joseph Kline Honored with Flemming Award

For his outstanding federal service through interdisciplinary research in the evolution of methods to determine the complex, three